Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1961 to 1970 of 3161.

• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. May I also start by congratulating you. You fit the seat very nicely. I am sure and confident you will function in the seat very effectively. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I rise to support the amendment by the Hon. Member for Rarieda on the safety of water. We say water is health and life. Since we have students in the gallery, may I just make a simple statement on the importance of water in life. All processes of the body, whether digestion or respiration - I know they know and many people need to know - take place in a solution form. Therefore, without water, any living thing will die; whether it is a human being, animal or plant. All biological processes take place in a water aqueous medium. That ... view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: What is more important on the safety bit--- It is important to have water. We all know that water transmits very many diseases like typhoid fever, cholera and all diarrhoeal diseases you can think of. It comes through water. If water is available but not safe, it can be extremely dangerous. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I want to give an example of how dangerous and expensive it is when water is not safe. Sometime in 2004/2005 – and some of us may remember – there was an outbreak of a disease in Chesamis Secondary school in western Kenya where, eventually, about 12 boys died. The problem was very simple. Up in Mt. Elgon, people were putting up simple dams and the water would be transported through taps to schools. But there was nobody really responsible for the small dams. So they were being used by--- view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I am only seconding the Member for Rarieda. Those dams were not taken care of. A germ got in there and the children started getting sick with Leptospirosis and 12 children died. What is interesting is that it took less than Kshs10,000 to make sure that the dam upstream had some chlorine in it. All we needed was a tin of sand with chlorine in it to be kept constantly there and clean the tanks downstream and the disease was controlled. In the meantime, we had used, in Webuye Hospital, Kshs35 million treating the people who were affected. A part ... view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: That is provided for in the Water Act as it is today. We must make sure that water is safe. The committees will be extremely important. If we do not do that, the cost of the problems we can have from water will be very high. Instead of water being for life, it will be against life. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I support the amendment that we should include the words “clean and safe” in the Motion. Thank you. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: 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 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to comment on this Bill. view
• 2 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: May I also join in congratulating the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources for the work it has done on the Forest Conservation and Management Bill from the Senate. I am not a Member of the Committee, but it looks like a good work was done. I want to raise two points on this Bill. The first one is the issue that was raised by the Chairlady of the Committee when she was seconding. She seemed to imply that the procedure of moving the Senate amendments on the Floor of the House was not proper and asked whether you ... view