Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: country, we buried pyrethrum. We were the best producer and marketer of pyrethrum in the world. We were producing 70 per cent of the world’s pyrethrum. Now we have been bypassed by small countries like Rwanda. The KTDA, as a monopoly, has decided to mess the farmers by not giving them their dues. When the regulations come to this House, I would like to urge Members to look at them critically to ensure that KTDA does not have the power to change anything that it has agreed on with farmers, and that it learns to stick to the contractual agreement. ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would also like to add my voice to that request for a statement by the MP for Runyenjes. It is very wrong for an institution to initiate the process of getting into a contract, discuss the details of the contract itself, get into the contract and then decide to go against it because it has the power. KTDA behaves like a monopoly in the agricultural sector, especially in the tea sector. We cannot afford to wait and watch tea go in the direction that other crops have gone. In this The electronic version of ... view
• 6 May 2020 in National Assembly: country, we buried pyrethrum. We were the best producer and marketer of pyrethrum in the world. We were producing 70 per cent of the world’s pyrethrum. Now we have been bypassed by small countries like Rwanda. The KTDA, as a monopoly, has decided to mess the farmers by not giving them their dues. When the regulations come to this House, I would like to urge Members to look at them critically to ensure that KTDA does not have the power to change anything that it has agreed on with farmers, and that it learns to stick to the contractual agreement. ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support the adoption of the Report. The Senate has looked at this Report, and as a Member of the Committee on Budget and Appropriations, and in our opinion we were grappling with the issues of how the resources are going to be utilized; whether the work plans of budgets of counties especially Nairobi County will be adopted and followed. Moreover, the role of Nairobi County Assembly in the management and oversight… There is a shift in terms of the governance of Nairobi County. Hon. Speaker, I support. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice in supporting the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. Hon. Speaker, Members have spoken about the lack of focus by the Supplementary Budget on COVID-19. I want to highlight why they are saying that. We do not expect a country like Kenya, in the 21st Century, and after many studies, to refer to the area managers and assistant chiefs to locate the vulnerable in the society. We have a lot of information that was collected last year during the Population and Housing Census by the Kenya ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: number and the names of the vulnerable and the extent to which they are vulnerable. We keep going out there to look for the vulnerable yet we do not have a single budget line to do this. It is mishandled. Right now, there is hue and cry on those who have been identified as the vulnerable. Hon. Speaker, we are behaving like a non-developed country. A country like Rwanda is way ahead of us and is using data to locate and respond to the needs of its people. Why are we doing this at this particular point in time? The ... view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to the adoption of the report on the Judiciary. This being an independent arm of Government, we would expect, as Kenyans and as leaders in this country, for 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
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: it to be treated as an independent arm and also as an important arm in this Republic. The Judiciary has a lot of work to do. This work needs to be done in record time. They have specialised in a specific business which everybody cannot do: to provide justice to Kenyans. In a growing economy like ours, there are need demands growing, devious is growing, and we need to be looking at how we should grow the budget of an independent office like this one, so that it will be able to attend to the increasing demands. It is amazing ... view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we need to have funding of the Judiciary looked at more positively than it is right now. Whenever we cannot influence, we delay. This is one of the principles that has been applied especially in the resource allocation in the country. I would like to say without any fear of contradiction that the Judiciary is underfunded deliberately. I hope this is not an execution of the threat that the Judiciary was given at one point in time. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: This House has occasionally had to address the issue of the Judiciary in terms of trying to retain funding levels that have been requested or retain the previous year’s funding levels instead of reducing. When the Executive suggests or proposes that we should reduce funding of the Judiciary, one wonders whether we are reducing in population or we are reducing in the number of cases or have we become so perfect that we have other mechanisms of dealing with cases, therefore, we need to reduce funding for the Judiciary. No wonder we have not had employment in the Judiciary for ... view