Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 971 to 980 of 3161.

• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: I also looked at the area of irrigation. I want to mention a few places in Nyanza that I know of. There is Oluch Kimira Irrigation Scheme, Nyando Irrigation Scheme and Lower Kuja Irrigation Scheme. In all these cases, the funding that we can see, to a large extent, comes from partners. How can you go ahead without looking at that? There is also an issue in fisheries. We import fish from China. The best tilapia is from Lake Victoria. We are in the era of cage farming. I know that this function is devolved. As Members have said here, ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: There is also an issue in healthcare. We are all saying that we want universal health cover. We all support it. I do not see how you want to move from the pilot programme, which we are implementing in the four counties, to roll it out in the whole country. What we are doing is tax funded. You go and get treated in Level 1 to Level 4 hospitals for free. When we roll out the universal health cover within the next one year, how will we fund it? We all hoped that we would use insurance and NHIF, which ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We are also on a programme-based budget but we noted that there was low absorption in our sector. A lot of it was explained on delayed or inadequate Exchequer release. What was interesting was that the targets had been achieved. If they were achieved with 30 per cent absorption, then it means that we did not need that money in the first place. I do not think that is the case. The data that we are using is not correct. If data is brought to us so that the process can go on and it bears no relation with reality, ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of stalled projects. There is basically one big issue with stalled projects. It is change over, for example, when you have a new Cabinet Secretary or Principal view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 50 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Secretary at the national Government. There was no follow up on the projects that were there. When you go to our case in the NG-CDF, it is when Members change and the old projects are not allocated money. If you look at the stalled projects that were in the national Government and they were devolved, the devolution process did not consider them. We should look at them and have a policy that indicates that if you take over any institution and when funding comes, you must first of all start with the stalled projects before you start new projects. This ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We looked at county allocation revenue guidelines that came and we saw high personnel emoluments, pending bills and lack of asset registers. This indicates lack of structures. We should have done this during the devolution, but it should be done now. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: I want to say something about debt. I request for a minute to contribute. I do not want to talk about external debt but internal debt where the Government borrows. We capped the interest rates. The industry says that people cannot get money because we capped the interest rates. The Government borrows internally. Therefore, it competes with the citizens. I do not know whether this is a cartel to refuse to give people money to discredit the capping of the interest rates. Some economists are saying that we can cap the borrowing… view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It is Wambura Nyikal. Hon. Deputy Speaker can take any name he likes. view