Eng. John Kiragu Chege

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: I appreciate the problem of the livestock farmers, particularly in ASAL areas. I represent Limuru Constituency, which is partly semi-arid but we must go into this problem much deeper. Insurance may not be the solution to this problem. I know that these areas face a problem of banditry, and so insecurity is a big problem. We are also in a problem because we cannot clearly define, or zone, what we call “arid and semi-arid areas”. view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, if you may recall, there are times when livestock is brought to Nairobi because of drought. My plea is that we should have modern technology in place and early warning systems, which can enable us tell when drought will come. The Government should help people in those areas, so that appropriate measures are taken in order to save livestock. We have seen in newspapers and television stations our brothers and sisters lose livestock without proper warning. There was no strategy to save the livestock. I believe that we should do more than caution livestock farmers in the ... view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: Sometimes, it does not make sense when we bring livestock all the way from Garissa and other areas to Nairobi for slaughter. It is important that we establish the factories there, which can process livestock products and bring those products to Nairobi. view
• 7 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support this Motion. view
• 24 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your election. I also want to take this opportunity to thank the great people of Limuru for giving me an opportunity to represent them here in this House. I want to say that I come from a Limuru constituency that has all the best of the weathers; we do not require all the air conditioning here. But more importantly in Limuru is that we are the people who host all the transmission power for you and so we are an important place in terms of communication. view
• 24 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: I want to comment on a few things about the President’s Speech. He talked about the need to spur industrial revolution. This country is at a time that we need to be serious. We know that if you walk to all the supermarkets in this country even in this House the microphone that I am using, all these things are not made here. We are people who depend on other technologies including for the clothes and shoes that we wear. It is my hope that one of these days when you need a shoe for a ceremony, you will wear ... view
• 24 Apr 2013 in National Assembly: The other thing is that we need to be serious in the level of funding for our research and development. We know that our universities have done a lot. We have good people but we do not have enough funds to support them to stay in research. We have a country that has all the PhD holders trying to run matatus or butcheries in this country. It is high time that we funded universities to a level where we can engage people in research to support this country. This country cannot sustain itself in terms of food production, if we ... view