John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 761 to 770 of 1647.

• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in moving this Motion, I want to state that sugarcane was first introduced in Kenya in 1902 with the first sugar factory being put up at Miwani in 1922 and in 1927 a sugar factory was set up at Ramisi in Coast Province. Immediately after Independence, the Government of Kenya moved to expand sugar production through investment in sugar growing schemes and establishment of new sugar factories. Cases include Muhoroni Sugar Factory which was set up in 1966, Chemelil Sugar Factory in 1968, Mumias Sugar Factory in 1973, Nzoia Sugar Factory in 1978 and South ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, according to the Kenya Sugar Board, the combined installed capacity of operational sugar factories is 24,880 metric tonnes of cane per day. This is not sufficient to meet the domestic consumption of sugar, let alone for export. The estimated 200,000 metric tonnes which is a shortfall, is met through imports. The Government investment in various sugar factories also faces impeding privatization, which if not handled well may create new dimension of instability in local farmers who if not involved fully in the privatization, may end up being total losers. The problems facing cane farmers are ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: I would invite hon. Members who could be having our Report to go through Appendix 1 on page 152 and look through the many challenges that are listed there and how they are spread out. However, for those of you who, perhaps, do not have the Report, I would like to mention the following: view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: One of the challenges is delayed payments and that was recorded from SONY/Awendo, Chemelil, Muhoroni, Miwani, Mumias, Busia, Nzoia and Malava. The other challenge is manipulation of the weigh bridge which is critical. We found out and we have evidence – hon. Members are invited again to look at the annextures – that most of these factories do manipulate weighbridges to an extent of 10 to 20 per cent of the cane weights. This means that as long as the farmer produces, he will automatically lose about 20 per cent of that weight through manipulation of weight by the millers. ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, over-mature cane was recorded all through. There was also gross mismanagement of factories. More particularly, if you look at the case of Muhoroni, which I will deal with at length later on, you cannot understand how a receiver manager receives Kshs2.5 million per month, and yet the revenue from the investment is only Kshs4 million. So, you will find that the receiver manager receives over 50 per cent of the entire revenue. When you look again at the number of acres which are being farmed, then you will realize that something is awfully wrong in ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: It is time, with or without a new Constitution we listened to the sugar story. It is a sad story. It is a story of poverty generated by policies. It is a sad story that makes anybody move down to tears when you look at the people; when you look at the level of abuse. In 2001, this House did pass a Sugar Act. This Act was celebrated all over. However, did you know that in doing payment for sugar, you have only two variables. The first variable is the weight of the cane and the second variable is the ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Madam Minister is in this House herself and not her Assistant Ministers who would be persuading her on issues to do with Muhoroni and those other places where people are earning Kshs2.5 million out of an output of Kshs4 million. Surely, we do not require the report to be ready. You should take action. Call all other arms of Government to investigate what went right or wrong. You should move with speed and call Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS) and other bodies to go and countercheck with Weights and Measures Department to know ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will go to another more serious problem – the burnt cane. Why does cane get burnt? It is a desperate measure. It is because the farmer sits there for 18 months and he cannot harvest. Arsonists now come either by accident or design and again you end up having the problem. That one, again, we shall deal with it in greater detail. We are looking at that. Please, look at our detailed outlook, hon. Ministers who are here in this Government. Spare time with your personal assistant to look through the HANSARD of the ... view
• 17 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this privatization process that we are beginning simply means, by any other word, that you are going to have new owners. You may give it a very good name, or a very English name, “privatization,” but the bottom line is that we are going to have new masters. How are you going to have new masters of Mumias land? This is land that they gave to those people there, and then you are going to have the John Mututhos of this world come and take over all that land. How are you going to sit ... view
• 12 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise in compliance with Standing Order No.204 seeking a petition on behalf of two petitioners, that is, hon. Seroney and hon. Shikuku. The Petition is seeking an apology and payment of compensation for the unlawful arrest and detention of Messrs. Joseph Martin Shikuku and Jean Marie Seroney. The essence of this petition is that from where you sit, sat hon. Jean Marie Seroney when he made a landmark ruling that you do not have to substantiate the obvious. What followed was an absolute abuse of power by the Executive to an extent that hon. Jean Marie ... view