John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1401 to 1410 of 1647.

• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Much obliged, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to go to the specific recommendations arising from what we found out. I also want to concur with the hon. Member that corruption is corruption whether it is committed by Lucifer or anyone else. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in view of what we found out, we made the following recommendations:- view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (i) The Ministry of Agriculture should immediately reconstitute a new Board. This Board must be elected with express authority of the farmers and not hand-picked people who are friends of the system. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (ii) The Board should recruit qualified and experienced professionals. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one of the people who were there, who was the acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO), is a research officer. He has been a research officer for over 25 years. However, he has never produced any results. He has been doing research on pyrethrum but has never published any results of what he has been doing for 25 years. However, he has remained on the payroll of the Government. Further, we recommended that:- view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (iii) The Board should establish the Farmers Account. This is the equivalent of the Strategic Grain Reserve (SGR). This is an account that will be used in case there is bad weather or high demand. This was started earlier and I see a lot of similarities with the SGR. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to seek further indulgence from you to refer to a matter which is not in this Report but it is related; this is something to do with maize. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: The establishment of SGR was founded on the basic principle that at one time, we will require some food in stores that can be handy to stabilize prices. The establishment of the Farmers Account was done on the same basis. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: That was the basis under which when Mr. Kirwa took office, he made stocks in excess of Kshs3 billion. These are the stocks that disappeared. This sounds very similar to the story that by 2007, our SGR were normal and they dwindled in October/November 2008. It is a very similar story! It all comes from one corner. It has one common denominator as both fall under the Ministry of Agriculture. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (iv) We also recommended that the Government should amend the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya Act (Cap.340) to allow for liberalisation of the pyrethrum industry. view