Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2711 to 2720 of 3161.

• 18 Nov 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have proposed a maximum of one hour and thirty minutes for the Motion, with five minutes for each hon. Members, ten minutes for the Leader of Majority Party and Leader of Minority Party before the Mover replies. view
• 30 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion. I appreciate that we are going to get the Constituencies Development Fund and we will use it. I also know that we are getting the Uwezo Fund. I would like to use the three minutes to point out that the structure of the Uwezo Fund is such that if we do not look at it, reorganize it, I do not think it will work. It has no secretariat and the act of training The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view
• 30 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: committees, identification of groups, vetting of groups, disbursing and monitoring and getting them to pay back will need a proper secretariat. view
• 30 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Again, I have noted that the capacity building that the groups need to use this money resides in Nairobi and the service providers that come to the constituencies to train; I find them, at least, in my constituency, in many ways negligent and not working diligently. Unless we move the capacity building back to the constituencies and also set up secretariats, I do not think the Uwezo Fund will work. We have to do something towards that. view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this Motion and to congratulate hon. Mwinyi for bringing it up. This Motion addresses very important issues in the air travel, air trade and trade in general. This addresses the need to increase demand for air transport in this country. Those of us who travel locally by air know how big the demand is between Nairobi and Kisumu and between Nairobi and Mombasa. It reaches a point that most of us get stranded at the airport because there are not enough spaces and the prices are still high. ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Liberalization is important. We cannot have services running or business growing if there is monopoly. In some countries, there are laws that force big companies that are view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: monopolies to be broken up, so that competition can be increased. That is where we must be going. We have realized that the big companies or monopolies complain a lot. In this country, some years back, we were forced to liberalize. If I take the example of the oil industry, there was a big guy that liberalized the oil industry, but what do the monopolies and big companies do? They go and form cartels. The oil industry has been a good example for us. We had to go back and reintroduce price control because the big companies and monopolies were ... view
• 29 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I stand to support this. We should remember that the East African Community has the oldest single currency in the world. We had the Kenyan Shilling that transformed to Ugandan Shilling and Tanzanian Shilling from the East African Shilling. So, it is actually long overdue. We are one people. We are actually one ecological zone and once we get people and goods to move then it is only logical that we have a single currency. I thank the Mover for giving me one minute. However, I wonder why The Temporary Deputy Speaker never saw my intervention for so long. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. As we all know, Ebola is a very serious disease but at the onset it does not look as serious with common symptoms progressing very rapidly. It is highly contagious and fatal. It kills between 50 to 60 per cent of those who are infected. Because of that, it creates anxiety, makes people behave in a manner that often makes the situation worse. view
• 22 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: What is really needed and what we would expect from the Ministry, and they have been adequately funded, is a serious national preparedness plan which the public must know. This includes training of staff. First of all, they should be able to protect themselves while looking after the patients. The staff should be able to identify the disease in those who are infected. Strict surveillance at the ports of entry and all other possible places should be put in place. view