23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the Petition. This issue is the same along the border counties, for instance, in my constituency where we border Tanzania, intermarriages have occurred between Tanzanians and Kenyans. You will find that in a family, the father and the children have national ID cards, but the mother who is as old as 60 years does not have a national ID card. One should become a citizen through marriage. So, once you are married by a Kenyan, you should be issued with a national ID card because you have become a Kenyan. Therefore, the Committee will ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Motion. All speakers have said that we are not growing the economy, which is very true. Therefore, I will not talk a lot about the overall BPS. Let me highlight on the agencies that my Committee oversees: National Intelligence Service (NIS), Ministry of Defence, Ministry of East African Community and Regional Development which includes the Northern Corridor Development and the Ministry of Foreign affairs and International Trade. In terms of growing the economy, let me talk about foreign affairs. We can use foreign affairs to grow the economy. ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Again, the EAC and RDA are departments under that Ministry. According to this Budget Policy Statement, we are funding that ministry to a tune of 27 per cent of its requirement. When I talked of 35 per cent for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is 35 per cent what they had asked for. For EAC and RDA we are giving them 27 per cent of what they asked for. These RDAs can be used to generate Appropriation-in-Aid that will lead to more employment which is very helpful in our economy. If we could just give seed capital to these ...
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
about - instead of just relying on donor funds or just paying salaries, they could start income generating projects and that way plough back to the economy.
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
The rest have not been funded to a maximum of their requirements; that is Defence and the National Intelligence Service. We have proposed a raft of policy measures that need to be done by the Executive and also the Committee which is an extension of this House, to ensure that we align those activities to those that will generate money and grow our economy.
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4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support.
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11 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to this very important policy. I speak in support of it. I really have a lot to say on wildlife issues. I can actually talk for two days on wildlife issues without referring to any document, because I was born and raised in areas where wildlife lived or in communities that live with wildlife. That is the case with you, Hon. Deputy Speaker because you and I border a park; the Kyulu National Park. I boarder Tsavo West National Park and the whole of Amboseli ...
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11 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to speak to this very important policy. I speak in support of it. I really have a lot to say on wildlife issues. I can actually talk for two days on wildlife issues without referring to any document, because I was born and raised in areas where wildlife lived or in communities that live with wildlife. That is the case with you, Hon. Deputy Speaker because you and I border a park; the Kyulu National Park. I boarder Tsavo West National Park and the whole of Amboseli ...
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11 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
They should also incorporate the community living with wildlife in the management, conservation and decision making by even appointing those people in boards that deal with wildlife and in the recruitment of rangers just to man wildlife and sharing of resources even in those parks. Now in the counties, a certain percentage of that revenue should go back to those counties; grazing and watering of livestock during dry season in those parks should be allowed. But there are bad practices
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11 Feb 2021 in National Assembly:
They should also incorporate the community living with wildlife in the management, conservation and decision making by even appointing those people in boards that deal with wildlife and in the recruitment of rangers just to man wildlife and sharing of resources even in those parks. Now in the counties, a certain percentage of that revenue should go back to those counties; grazing and watering of livestock during dry season in those parks should be allowed. But there are bad practices
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