James Lusweti Mukwe

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: THAT, aware that Free Primary Education (FPE) is an important milestone to economic and social development in the country; further aware that since the introduction of FPE in 2002, the Government has spent huge amount of money on the programme; noting that the recent Report by the Ministry of Education submitted to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission indicated that the Government could be losing millions of capitation funds in public schools through inflated enrollment figures, fraudulent deals that include irregular allocation of funds, procurement of goods and questionable expenditure by headteachers; concerned that the spirit of FPE was to provide ... view
• 20 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to congratulate Hon. Injendi for bringing this Motion. What we are discussing is important. In some areas, we have physically handicapped children whose mothers hide in their houses. The people who get information and report are village elders. Sometimes those village elders get some lost children and take them to their homes before the report is taken to police. Those people are working day and night without any pay. During the campaign against polio, tuberculosis and measles, those are the people who direct the nurses to carry out the exercise. They are ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Farmers are suffering. When we talk about the sugar industry in our country, it is the farmers who are suffering. For example, sometimes, cane overstays in the farms. Sometimes, it lasts for three years and it is the farmers who are losing and suffering. That demoralises the farmers because they have nothing to survive on and, at the end of it all, they stand to lose. Sometimes, the factory is situated far away from the farm and during transportation, the vehicle breaks down. Sometimes, the cane is stolen and so, the farmers stand to ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me time to speak. I also thank Hon. Wamunyinyi for bringing this Bill. view
• 20 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support by saying that there were special days for planting trees in our schools when I was there. They acted as barriers to wind. In my constituency recently, roofs of two schools were blown off as a result of lack of trees. In addition, there are no special dumping places in major towns in our country. We do not have toilet paper or water in Chwele Market of my constituency. People wash vehicles in rivers and other water bodies like Lake Victoria. That is endangering marine life. I support and congratulate Hon. (Dr.) ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of IDs is very important. Those who are mostly affected are the youth and newly married women. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I recently heard on radio the Head of State giving a directive that those newly married women must be given IDs without being sent back to their fathers to get letters to access IDs. Chiefs have not adhered to that directive because these people are still being told to go back to their parents to get letters to allow them to get IDs. This is becoming difficult for the people. Students are not even accessing loans from HELB. IDs are very important. As a Member earlier mentioned, after the 2013 elections, we received over 4,000 IDs ... view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, issuance of IDs must be decentralised, so that people access this important document in time. As of now, people are registering. Those who do not have IDs are not going to register and the process is going very slowly. We feel that if it is going The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: to be decentralised, most of our youth are going to get IDs. We have old people. If a 70 year old person losses an ID and goes for a replacement, it takes a lot of time. As it takes a lot of time, these people are demoralised. They never go back to look for the IDs because the process is too long. It is important that the issue of IDs is decentralised. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: We are in the era of the Al Shabaab and if you are found loitering on the road at night, you are asked for an ID. If you do not have it, you are charged and even jailed for six months. This is should not be the fault of the individual, but it is because the process takes too long. view