Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill that intends to amend the Constitution. I support the previous speaker who has alluded to the fact that there are many initiatives that intend to amend the Constitution. It will be useful for Kenyans and Members of Parliament to bring these initiatives together to try and see the extent which we are trying to amend the Constitution. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I rise to support this particular initiative, even though we are saying that we should amalgamate all of them. First and foremost, August is not a very good month because it is at the point when the financial year of the Government has ended. Therefore, so many factors may not have been factored in the financial year. We cannot project the outcome of an election. We cannot tell exactly what we need to plan for before the election is done. On the other hand, if we look at the last election last year, we had many issues that affected the ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: We shall have a better date and thereafter the celebrations will be merged. December is generally a celebration period. Therefore, people will move on well. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I would also like to agree with the fact it is a low season in tourism business and other businesses. It is time Kenyans released themselves to processes that make them relax. Therefore, it is time we did a lot better than the situation right now. The current election date came in after the adoption of the Constitution 2010. If we change it, we will go back to our tradition. We will have December as a transition month because everybody aims at a new year when he or she does new things. It will also be good for us to ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support. view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. We are a country that is suffering from many climate- related issues. One of the sources of these problems is lack of sufficient forest cover. Speaking of 2.9 per cent of our forest cover currently, and moving it to 10 per cent, we need to respond to this particular issue as a crisis. If we are not in a crisis at 2 per cent, I do not know when we will consider ourselves to be in a crisis. The role of research has not come ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: of increasing the forest cover. There is an issue that has been alluded to. I do not know whether we understand it very well. That is the issue of carbon credits. I know that there are people who are being paid in Kenya with regard to carbon credits. There are some people who are paid in terms of the number of seedlings that they are planting and nurturing every year. If you follow this clearly, you will realise that the audit is not properly done. Sometimes people are paid for trees they are not planting nor nurturing. So, we need ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: You need to protect me from the Hon. Member who wears green in this House. He is threatening us. You dress like you are working in the office of Mr. Sialai. Please, do not interrupt me as I speak. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to just mention one thing as I wind up. When we talk about deliberate increase of forest cover, exactly what are we talking about or doing? We need to look at the alternative sources of energy; do some thorough research on alternative sources of energy and try to see how we can make it ... view
• 1 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: country whose 68 per cent population is dependent on wood fuel. If 68 per cent of the population is dependent on wood fuel, how can we increase our forest cover? It is, in fact, diminishing! There are several options that have come up and they have not been seriously followed. One of them is through the Ministry of Agriculture where we need to insist about a wood lot of 10 per cent of the farm size. I am wondering how far this has gone. Is it a policy pronouncement which has been followed? How many people have set aside 10 ... view
• 5 Jul 2018 in National Assembly: This is the list of the counties. view