Jimmy Angwenyi

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• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is the Assistant Minister in order to keep on repeating an answer that he gave us six months ago, when the problem in Mt. Elgon District started? Many people have lost their lives since he gave an answer claiming that they were in control! Is he in order! view
• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to add my voice to this important Bill. First, I want to commend the Minister for, at least, waking up to the needs of the employees of this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we all know, if we were to visit the Export Processing Zones (EPZs), we would see the conditions under which Kenyans are working; they are worse than the cotton slavery conditions in the USA in the 17th and 18th centuries. view
• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we were to travel through the tea estates in the highlands, you will see your brother and sister picking tea when it is raining and in storms and what they are paid are peanuts! The conditions in which they live are abominable. So, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is good that the Minister has come up with these Bills and I hope that, once we pass them, we will implement them immediately. We can take the case of the Sexual Offenses Bill, which we passed here, and it took more than a year ... view
• 17 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I continue, I--- view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, in view of the Government's prime goal and policy to spur the economy to an accelerated growth to catch up with the Asian economic tigers; conscious that agriculture is the engine of the country's economic development; noting with appreciation that the tea sub-sector has sustained itself as well as the economy through a very long recessionary period without any direct Government investment; cognizant that small tea production has by far surpassed the existing tea factories' processing capacity with resultant enormous loss and wastage of green leaf; bearing ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: It reads as follows:- This House grants leave to introduce a Bill for an Act of Parliament to amend the KTDA Act to provide for urgent direct Government investment in the rehabilitation, expansion, or construction of tea factories to adequately process tea produced by small scale farmers throughout the country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we do know that when this Government took over, the economy was in shambles. Take, for example, our sugar sub-sector was in shambles; our dairy industry was in shambles; our fishing industry was in shambles; the meat industry was in shambles and our public banking ... view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the seconder is Mr. Bett. view
• 16 May 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view