James Opiyo Wandayi

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• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: implication, their people. It is no wonder that those countries and nations with weak internal systems that do not protect their industries or their people end up invariably as dumping grounds for goods and services from those countries which have taken the initiative to be protective. Nothing illustrates this better than the agriculture sector. Most of the countries that we deal with globally have taken definite measures or steps to not only protect their agriculture industry or sector, but have actually gone a step further to heavily subsidise agricultural production. That is why you find that in countries like America, ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: implication, their people. It is no wonder that those countries and nations with weak internal systems that do not protect their industries or their people end up invariably as dumping grounds for goods and services from those countries which have taken the initiative to be protective. Nothing illustrates this better than the agriculture sector. Most of the countries that we deal with globally have taken definite measures or steps to not only protect their agriculture industry or sector, but have actually gone a step further to heavily subsidise agricultural production. That is why you find that in countries like America, ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: waiting for the slightest signal to ship it in. As we speak, we are being told that about 30,000 tonnes of maize which was supposedly coming from Mexico has docked in the port of Mombasa and is being distributed to the millers to reduce the price of maize flour. You ask yourself this: If the maize that is being said to have been imported was, indeed, imported by private players, private business people, what on earth necessitated a whole CS leaving Nairobi at taxpayers’ expense, going to the Port of Mombasa to receive maize which has been imported by private ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: waiting for the slightest signal to ship it in. As we speak, we are being told that about 30,000 tonnes of maize which was supposedly coming from Mexico has docked in the port of Mombasa and is being distributed to the millers to reduce the price of maize flour. You ask yourself this: If the maize that is being said to have been imported was, indeed, imported by private players, private business people, what on earth necessitated a whole CS leaving Nairobi at taxpayers’ expense, going to the Port of Mombasa to receive maize which has been imported by private ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was just concluding by saying that there is no motivation on the part of those who run this Jubilee Government to make Kenya food-sufficient and, more importantly, to bring efficiency in the running of public affairs. If Kenyans are looking up to this Government for help, then they are mistaken. The only consolation that Kenyans have is that in the period of less than 90 days, they will have an opportunity to put in place a Government that can respond to their needs. It will be a Government that will take ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was just concluding by saying that there is no motivation on the part of those who run this Jubilee Government to make Kenya food-sufficient and, more importantly, to bring efficiency in the running of public affairs. If Kenyans are looking up to this Government for help, then they are mistaken. The only consolation that Kenyans have is that in the period of less than 90 days, they will have an opportunity to put in place a Government that can respond to their needs. It will be a Government that will take ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. First, I want to say that this Report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a good piece of literature. I am saying it is a good piece of literature in the sense that Kenyans who have suffered the wrath of that wanton theft have not found an answer in this Report. Kenyans who continue to wallow in poverty have not found an answer in this Report. I cannot blame the Committee because it has limited capacity to unearth the kind of theft that was going on at NYS. ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity. First, I want to say that this Report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is a good piece of literature. I am saying it is a good piece of literature in the sense that Kenyans who have suffered the wrath of that wanton theft have not found an answer in this Report. Kenyans who continue to wallow in poverty have not found an answer in this Report. I cannot blame the Committee because it has limited capacity to unearth the kind of theft that was going on at NYS. ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: purposefully to ensure that public money was siphoned out to benefit a few individuals at the expense of suffering Kenyans. Ms. Anne Waiguru was no ordinary CS. Ms. Anne Waiguru was, for all intents and purposes, a “prime minister” in this Jubilee Government. When she appeared before the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to answer to my questions, the arrogance I saw in her face was the kind of arrogance you do not expect to see on the face of an ordinary CS. She was so confident to the extent that you could imagine that this was somebody ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: purposefully to ensure that public money was siphoned out to benefit a few individuals at the expense of suffering Kenyans. Ms. Anne Waiguru was no ordinary CS. Ms. Anne Waiguru was, for all intents and purposes, a “prime minister” in this Jubilee Government. When she appeared before the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade to answer to my questions, the arrogance I saw in her face was the kind of arrogance you do not expect to see on the face of an ordinary CS. She was so confident to the extent that you could imagine that this was somebody ... view