John Krop Lonyangapuo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Nov 2013 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in thanking Sen. Sang for bringing this amendment Bill at this time. For the last six months, since we got into devolution, we have seen scenarios of developing the counties. I wonder whether these governors are the same people who were campaigning before March, 2013. I also want to thank the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights for taking this Bill through all the steps that were mentioned by the Chairman, Senator Wako. They visited and consulted several stakeholders that are the guardians of the implementation of the ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my colleague should have waited for me to conclude my statement. I said that more often than not, quacks parade themselves in those offices, which is true. We do not want the anchoring of devolution to have those types of fellows crowding the development agenda for our counties. We have very good people. I expected a forum like this one to say: Can we begin with the investors that we have here, as small as they are? Let us call them and ask them how our counties can be developed with the brains that we have. ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion which is, indeed, very timely. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we are 50 years old as a nation and a number of Senators here are below 50 years old. There is a song that we used to sing which said that agriculture is the strength of the nation. It is even written that it is the backbone of the Kenyan economy. But what value have we put to agriculture ever since the first Government took power? I want to give credit and praise to the ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to support. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that science, technology and innovation (STI) are critical to the attainment of Kenya’s Vision 2030; cognizant of the fact that harnessing of STI would The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Indeed, you are right, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I just said that you can get them in the dictionary. I did not go to the details, but Oxford Dictionary is one of them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I decided to mention this because sometimes we may wonder what science, technology and innovation are, and that is the reason I am putting a lot of emphasis on the same. In the syllabus which we use to normally train our children in primary schools, right from nursery to high school and to universities, there is a lot of emphasis on theory, where ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to inform my colleague, now that he has talked about the Nyayo Car, that I was the first PS for Industrialisation. That car is in the Numerical Machines yard. I am told that when we stopped working on it, Malaysia came for the documents. They went and utilized the information. Today, they have a car, thanks to our innovation. view
• 7 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I thank you for ordering the Committee yesterday to issue this Statement. You can see that some of my colleagues were impatient with the answer given because some of information is not very relevant to what I had asked. In this manifesto, it had been clearly mentioned that one million acres will be done within the next five years. That translates to 200,000 acres per year. Sen. Chelule says to irrigate 200,000 acres of land will cost them Kshs40 billion. This means that Kshs40 billion was supposed to be set aside this year for irrigation. From ... view
• 7 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to hear clearly the criteria used to identify the two areas rather than all the other areas in Kenya. view
• 7 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to hear clearly why we are using Members of the National Assembly and yet, even today, we have an issue with the way they oversee CDF funds? Who sits in their committees? It is the people who campaigned for them. Who benefits from the money? It is the same people who have been working with them. I thought that this money was supposed to be given to sort out issues without any affiliation to any politicians? Those who stood against the current Members of Parliament will not benefit from it. That is what I know ... view