James Mwangi Gakuya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is grate to hear the Assistant Minister elaborate how contractors do their work. However, yesterday, we were on the road between Kenol and Murang’a. The Assistant Minister is aware that hardly six months have passed since the contractor did the job and yet that section of the road is full of potholes. Could the Assistant Minister assure this House that the contractors will not be fully paid until these roads are properly done? view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Assistant Minister in order to mislead this House that there are enough transformers when in my constituency, three projects, namely, Mbariaiti--- view
• 7 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, is he in order to mislead the House by saying that we have adequate transformers in this country? view
• 1 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to oppose the amendment. It is true that we need devolution and we need the counties to manage their resources, but history will judge us and show that we are trying to create enclaves and the fear expressed that people may suffer is not far-fetched. So, we would rather devolve and let land, as emotive as it is, be managed by the Central Government. I oppose the amendment. view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very serious issue. For the KNEC to have cancelled the results of these candidates, it must have carried out investigations to arrive at the decision that these students had cheated. Is it in order for the Assistant Minister to have taken the decision and then tell us that they are carrying out investigations? The cheating of examinations involves more than the students. It involves the invigilators and the officials concerned. He must have interviewed these people to have arrived at this decision. How sure is he that the investigations being conducted will reveal a ... view
• 25 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Could the Assistant Minister explain to the House what he means when he says: “The Government will be felt on the ground”? The experience we have had is that when people go to bury their own, they are beaten up by the police. Is that the force he wants us to experience? view
• 24 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The Assistant Minister has said that he has used one of the boats. Is he in order to say that? Could he give the House the number of the boat and the date he used it? view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I stand to support the President for his guidelines and layout of the way forward. Having said that, without repeating much of what has been said, there are issues that cut across this country. The distribution of wealth as envisaged by the Economic Stimulus Programme that has been drawn by the Government has taken a long time to get started. I urge the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance to hasten the provision of funds to some of the projects under that programme. Otherwise, we will get to the end of the ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I would like to support the President in the way he looks at the economy of this country. There are issues of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eradication of poverty and others that would have seen the country get out of the habit of borrowing food and other things from other countries, when we can do it locally. We need to address that immediately. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, this afternoon, for instance, the Minister for Agriculture talked about buying maize all over the country. He hardly said how much cash he has for buying maize. He just talked about how the ... view
• 3 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister has made an effort to answer the Question, but one of the comments he made is that the programme which he was explaining is involved in fighting poverty. I think all the answers he gave covered the Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). His Ministry and the Government as such have left the farmers in other areas suffering because no attention has been paid. We had a case of milk. Not only do the ASALs--- view