Japheth Kiplangat Mutai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: between the Government of Kenya and Exim Bank of China, which has since stalled, despite having the requisite clearance from NEMA? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain and provide details of whether the Government of Kenya has commenced the repayment of the loans for the said project? (iii) Could the Cabinet Secretary further explain other causes for the delay in constructing the dam and whether the Kenya Forest Service has played part in the delayed construction and, if so, what steps has the Cabinet Secretary taken to ensure that the construction of the Bosto Dam is completed and by when? view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. Let us commend the Chairman, Departmental Committee for Finance and National Planning. It is good that he is talking about pest control. The incoming of COVID-19 did not take away the locusts; they are still a menace to our farmers for they are ravaging most parts of our country. On that Chairman I commend him. The issue of the LPG gas is good because some of us are environmentalists and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: are keen on conserving the environment. It is good that you are making this concession on the LPG gas so that we can make it available. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I stand to support the Bill. It has come at the right time against the backdrop of farmers registering the lowest bonus in the last five years. In my constituency, the drop was 45 per cent, something that has been unseen and unheard of in the last five to seven years. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: As it is now, tea is not performing well in the current international market as of last month. If nothing is done, what we had last year will be worse to what will happen this year. It was the wrong move to lump tea with other crops under Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). Tea is the second highest earner of foreign income to this country. The first being foreign remittance by Kenyans living abroad. Second is tea and third is tourism. Yet, it is surprising that tourism is a full-fledged Ministry while tea is a Directorate under AFA. It does ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: The elephant in the house as regards the problems bedeviling the tea industry is KTDA. KTDA has become a problem for tea farmers. First, KTDA is charged with marketing tea yet, the same KTDA is doing injustice when it comes to marketing tea for the farmers. When it The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: comes to licensing, the same KTDA is mandated to license tea brokers. But there seems to be a conflict of interest because most of the KTDA directors or the board members are the ones who are running those tea brokerage firms. Currently, we have 11 tea brokers in this country. Most of the KTDA senior employees and directors have interest in tea brokerage firms. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, the same KTDA charges farmers 2.5 per cent as management fee and yet, the same factories have to pay salaries to employees seconded by KTDA to their factories. Why is that the case? That ought to have been covered by the 2.5 per cent management fee being paid. But you will find that the same factory managers and accountants in respective factories across the country are paid by the same farmers. That is piling pressure and unnecessary financial obligations on the farmers. You will find that the same KTDA Company Secretary is the legal officer for respective factories. In ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Likewise, you will find that the same KTDA, as it stands now, has invested the proceeds from tea in other businesses which are outside the core business of tea. You will find Majani Insurance, Green Feather and Chai Warehouses. In all these, the core business of KTDA, which is tea, has been relegated to the back-seat. Farmers do not know where the profits go to. It is difficult to quantify exactly what each farmer is entitled within the KTDA. Profits made by KTDA do not trickle down to the farmers. The current farmer is left to the mercy of an ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: It was a massive mistake to allow a private company to run the affairs of tea farmers in this country. The monopoly that KTDA has is unwarranted. You cannot have one entity that has pure monopoly to be processing tea from all the tea factories within the country. In the Bill, the TBK will have powers to license another outfit like KTDA to avoid one entity having monopoly over everything. It is the same monopoly that we need to get rid of. We are getting rid of monopoly in a structured way whereby licensed entities doing business do not do ... view