John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1231 to 1240 of 1647.

• 26 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You heard the Minister say that they will use the chiefs to distribute the documents and said that the chiefs should be sacked. How possible is that? view
• 18 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Member in order to speak in Sheng when he is supposed to be speaking in English? view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is, indeed, very sad to see the Assistant Minister stand up here, mislead the whole country and expose his misunderstanding of fertilizer chemistry. He has first of all summarized that Western Province and Rift Valley have uniform soil. That is wrong. The issue is that the fertilizer being used now is not appropriate. Look at Calcium Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) fertilizer, if used in low altitudes, where there are alkaline soils, it will cause dispersal of these soils. That means that soils become like flour and subsequently permanently unproductive. Other types of fertilizer will cause permanent ... view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my question is: When will the Assistant Minister withdraw all the bogus fertilizer that they have supplied to the farmers and supply them with the appropriate fertilizer across the country? view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Trade:- (a) whether he could table all the multilateral Trade Agreements in force and state their long and short-term implications to Kenya; (b) whether he could provide a breakdown of all trade tariffs under negotiations, their respective time-frames and net effects to Kenyan farmers; and, (c) what is the status of patents in agriculture affecting pyrethrum, coffee and other industrial crops. view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I seek the indulgence of the Chair in this matter because as you can see, those agreements, tariffs and patents form a huge amount of reading. Now that we have the documents, could I be in order to request that the Question is deferred for about a week so that I can have time to, at least, digest it? Even if I peruse through the documents, I will only see international companies. This means that we have already mortgaged our rights on pyrethrum or all these things if they are the ones which are very important. ... view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Ruiru 11 is a variety of coffee that has been exported from Kenya to Rwanda. Pyrethrum is also now being grown in China. They are outdoing our own market. Are we getting any royalties because these are Kenyan products based on patents in force? view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I hope I will be useful to the Minister to inform him that coffee can be grown even around the Coast Province. But the difference between coffee and coffee is the location under which that coffee is grown. When Ruiru 11 is grown in Rwanda, it will have the taste of that coffee which is the same one in Kenya. That means we have already lost our rights for that particular aspect. All the coffee that we will sell under Kenya, we will have now to pay royalties to Rwanda. The ... view
• 12 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The patent that you have given us; 125 which, I believe, you are the one who may have granted or if you were still in office in 2008, is to accompany in the USA, in the document that you have tabled and this is to do with insecticidal formulations. There is also 237, which is also having the same effect and it is just 2007. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, can he confirm that these two particularly do not touch on the already existing patents which are in the process of being prepared by the ... view
• 11 Nov 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for recognizing me standing because I am the only person who has given notice for the Senior Citizens Bill. It is there and has been in the process for the last three months to six months. Even young men like my brother the Chief Whip know that he will grow old one time. The fact that you are going to grow old tells you two things; you are not only near going to heaven but if in Kenya, you are also going to face hardships which are worse than what you would face ... view