Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: with experience to sit in the committee that will be advising the CS. view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Clause13 clearly states the relationship between the CS and the committee and the advisory functions that arise from that. view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: In Clause 14, the Bill establishes the Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority. In my mind, having gone through the Bill, this is probably the most important institution that is being established by the Bill. Its functions are clearly indicated in Clause 15. It is an authority that will look at all aspects of oil from upstream, midstream to downstream. Licensing and agreement will all be looked at by the Authority. Its functions are clearly outlined in Clause 15. Even during operations, there will be need to regulate, inspect and see how all these operations are going on. There will be need ... view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: the Executive. We may have to look more at that and make amendments so that stakeholders can also be involved. view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: In Part IV, we have upstream management. Upstream resources and resources still in the ground are invested in the national Government. The Bill also takes into consideration the requirements that the county government should be involved. view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: It also has a provision for reporting information that is very important that sometimes oil explorers and those who run the industry may keep away the Government and therefore inhibit proper regulation. view
• 12 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: We should support the Bill. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I must start by congratulating the Member for bringing this Motion. I stand to support it because this is something that is long overdue. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: The declaration of cancer as a national disaster and setting up a fund are key issues in this Motion. This is something that we have been aware of from as far back as 2005 when it was noted that unless something is done, we will have a double burden of disease. This means that we have infectious diseases like Tuberculosis (TB) and malaria and we are also getting into a heavy burden of non-communicable diseases like diabetes, hypertension and cancer. That has now come to be. Whereas we are saying that cancer is killing more people than malaria and TB, ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: this together. If we have this national disaster status and set up a cancer fund, the question will be on how to use the money in that fund. My view is to look at prevention, early screening and treatment. That is important. The main reason we are seeing many cancer patients is because of changing lifestyle. We eat a lot of foods that have been processed in factories and have a lot of chemicals in terms of preservatives. We are exposed to a lot of chemicals from factories where we work. That change of environment is another factor we need ... view