Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

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• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: also appreciate the commissions that looked at what ought to have been done to look after the life of an MP, after he or she leaves Parliament. This Bill is important because it is coming at a time when there is need to harmonise treatment between MPs. Those MPs who served between 1984 and 2001 are suffering in silence. Even if we are told that they have an association, that association does not necessarily represent them at levels where they can lobby for their issues to be heard. The Mover of this Bill and those of us supporting it, speak ... view
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 12 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Kshs2,000 or Kshs5,000 or even Kshs20,000 is not really commensurate to the level of needs in those particular houses and, therefore, the need for their terms to be improved. These people have suffered because before they became Members of Parliament, they spent most or all of their wealth trying to secure these positions. When Members of Parliament secure these positions and then they become the impoverishing factor, it is only fair for us to give them some support through some consideration as this particular Bill proposes. I support this particular Bill, realising that Kshs100,000 is significant. I looked at it ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to move this Motion. I beg to move: THAT, aware that farmers in Kenya are least organised into Associations, following the collapse of the Agricultural Cooperatives; further aware that, the Crops Act, 2013 provides for registration of farmers so as to establish who they are and what they produce; noting that Government’s efforts to establish farmers’ organisations have ended up delivering short-lived and unsustainable initiative- based groups which fizzle out soon after their formation; further noting that the best way to organise farmers is through their organisations; appreciating that the best ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: enhance productivity and incomes of the farmers and rural population; to improve investment on climate and efficiency of agri-business development, agricultural crops and exports that will augment the foreign exchange earnings of the country. This is done through promotion of the production, processing, marketing and distribution of crops in arable areas of this country. This is covered in Section 8 on promotion of scheduled crops. There is also Section 14 which is on freedom to register, especially sub-section (e), and Section 15 which has to do with the registration of growers’ association, especially Section 15(c) and Section 5(d). Finally, there ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: we have in Kenya of land segmentation and increase in the population of farmers. Incidentally, we appear satisfied with that yet our farmers are small-scale. Therefore, they need to be organised because they are disadvantaged. The reforms in the Kenyan agricultural sector ought to borrow from reforms that have taken place in other countries. Reforms in other countries started many years ago. For example, there is the United Kingdom (UK) Agrarian Reform that took place in the 17th Century. It brought together small-scale farmers who were scattered just as we are today and formed a production method that still sustains ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: framework 10 years later in Malabo as the Malabo Framework for Action. For your information, Kenya is a signatory to that too. Kenya is, therefore, yet to meet its obligations. It always excuses herself in the casting and interpretations. What I mean by this is that, the agricultural sector is lumped up with the other sectors in rural development. Infrastructural development is sometimes linked up with agriculture as part of the contribution. So, if the farmers were registered, organised and signed up, the pact would have been implemented. They would have lobbied and pushed for it. If, indeed, we had ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: and farmer-governed. That is why, therefore, it invites the need for a farmer organisation to spearhead this particular process. Farmers trust their own. They believe in themselves. They form and run their organisations. For that to happen, farmer registration must be domiciled in an umbrella body of farmers. An umbrella body of farmers is one where the general and multi-level organisations and the specialised commodity associations are anchored. Such formations exist and they have the structures we have described. The Kenya National Farmers Federation is one of them. This organisation is older than the country itself. It was formed in ... view
• 30 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was getting a little bit attracted to the conversations. I was wondering whether they are discussing the agricultural sector. Thank you very much. Some of these benefits include raw material consolidation to supply to an organised industrial system. They include better investment environment through increased options and opportunities. They also include income to farmers themselves and other value chain actors, and more money to the commodity market itself. Other benefits include development of a better business environment, food and nutrition security, just to mention a few. Food and nutrition security is an outcome ... view