Japhet M. Kareke Mbiuki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I stand here to second this Bill. I also want to thank hon. Members for allowing us to move this particular Motion on the Bill and to fast-track the publication period from the normal 14 days to five days, which was passed early today morning. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: During the last Parliament, the Bill was passed by this House and the publication date was 25th January this year. According to Section 1, the commencement date is supposed to be exactly six months from the date of publication. But because of the transition the necessary institutional legal framework which was supposed to be enacted had not been done. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Therefore, while bearing in mind that the Cabinet Secretary as well as the Principle Secretary, plus the hon. Members of the Departmental Committee are equally new and also need to be part and parcel of this process – we agreed and we met as a Committee through the initiative of various stakeholders. The level of preparedness of the Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries Ministry to implement this particular Bill when it is an Act was not there. Therefore, we met as a Committee and deliberated on this matter and we were taken through the process by the Cabinet Secretary, and in ... view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, some hon. Members alluded that there are some people who want to scuttle this particular Bill but we want to assure them that as a Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, we shall stand firm to ensure that this particular Bill is implemented in full. Therefore, there should be no worry. This particular Bill is in conformity with the new Constitution. There are laws which will be done by the national Government as well as laws which will be done by the county governments. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, the major intention of the ALFA Bill was really to review various anomalies which were in the current legal and regulatory framework. Quite a number of laws which are governing the agricultural sector are obsolete; majority of which were enacted prior to the Kenya’s Independence. view
• 17 Jul 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, Sir, in the absence of strong rules to put up competition in the sector; it is also hindering competition within the sector. The agricultural sector has more than 60 parastatals and this particular Bill wants to collapse these parastatals into three for easy administration and to ensure the ambiguity and overlapping of some of these State organs are not there. So, I want to urge hon. Members, that due to the unpreparedness by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, we allow for the extension of commencement date from 25th to 24th of July, 2013; by six months, ... view
• 26 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I hope the time keepers will now put my time as three minutes. I want to thank hon. Shill. view
• 26 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: That was earlier, hon. Deputy Speaker. I am now under a new dispensation. I know how hon. Shill is feeling. In primary school, we used to debate issues in under a debating club and nothing used to happen. It is a feeling that nothing happens, even with what is passed in this House. I believe the ball is in the court of the Committee on Implementation. Hon. Deputy Speaker, when I was finishing, I was talking about the vicious circle of poverty, where children are brought up in a family where their father burns charcoal and they eventually end up ... view
• 25 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. Under Standing Order No.95, will I be in order to request you to put the Question since the Committee has spoken on this Motion? view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. On the outset, I would like to congratulate the Selection Committee for trying their best to place every Member in, at least, one Committee, and also for their commitment to deal with cases where Members may not have been placed in committees. view