Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity to thank Members of the Ad Hoc Committee on Tea which generated this Bill. I was a Member of that Committee. We went to various places including Gatura Shopping Centre in Gatanga Constituency, Murang’a County, and visited one tea factory. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: The reason I support this Bill is because first, tea is one of the most important foreign exchange earners for this country. Currently, money send from the diaspora is number one earner of dollar, but the second one is tea. Tea has been at number two spot for a long period of time. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: We all know the importance of foreign exchange. Once we ensure the crop and our farmers are supported, our shilling will continue stabilising. Therefore, we need to support the tea sector. It employs millions of Kenyans and creates value addition in agriculture. As correctly stated by my colleagues, we have had a situation where coffee, pyrethrum and sugarcane farming collapsed. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is only tea that is still going strong. Once we bring these reforms, I have no doubt tea will become the very and most important crop not only for Kenya, but I would imagine an important contribution to the growth of Africa. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: Murang’a County has ten tea factories serving the small-scale farmers. We start from tea factories in Mathioya all the way to Gatanga Constituency. They employ thousands of people and create a market for our small-scale farmers. Therefore, it was very important on our part to come up and support this Bill. view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Bill addresses several problems which tea farmers have been experiencing. The first one is the over taxation of the tea farmer. The tea farmer, currently, pays almost 41 or 42 different types of taxes. Secondly is the cess that is collected by the counties. Various counties from the regions where farmers grow tea have been taking tea cess. Instead of reinvesting that money to build good roads in tea growing areas, they have been expending that money with other works and making roads in the tea growing areas to become deplorable and neglected. Therefore, this Bill ... view
• 21 Dec 2020 in Senate: Madam Chairperson, thank you for the good work. I am seeking for two directions from you. That we ring the Bell for about five minutes. I take this opportunity to urge my colleagues who are following this proceeding virtually to be prepared to commence voting, to login. If there is any Senator out there watching us. There are colleagues who need to come in and start voting because this is the final stage. Give directions that voting is by delegation. view
• 17 Dec 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We have heard the witnesses supporting the case of the governor. We have also heard the witnesses supporting the case by the county assembly. We heard from the Minority Leader from the Assembly, we also heard from the former County Executive Committee Member (CECM) of Education. However, I urge the Assembly to do a little bit of clarification on the third witness, in the sense that there was no examination in chief. They only urged us to adopt the statement, then we immediately went for cross examination and finally re- examination. I urge the Assembly ... view
• 17 Dec 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. speaker, Sir. It is now 17 minutes past 10.00 p.m. We shall vote on each and every allegation. Tomorrow is not a gazetted day. We have a statutory deadline. Section 33 of the County Governments Act has clear set out timelines. Therefore, if for any reason we spill over up to tomorrow beyond midnight today, we will be breaching the law taking into account that voting will be by roll call. I seek your directions on how we will proceed going forward. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I propose we call the Mover to reply. view