John Michael Njenga Mututho

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need this because a set of professionals need to be inspected that way. Quacks must be kept out of this professionalism. This Bill has been studied intensively by our Committee. We shall be proposing several amendments having met with both organizations. We would have wished that both veterinary and para-professionals came together, so that we can move faster. We want come next month, we will have a new law; the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Para- Professionals Act, of 2011. view
• 24 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support this Bill wholesomely believing that the professionals in question will remain open to accommodate the proposed changes by this House and the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives. view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Assistant Minister. I want to make very good use of those three minutes. I would like to start by advising that the Minister has nothing to do with some of the mess for which we are blaming him. These are contracts which were entered into by people who had ulterior motives. So, I would recommend to this House that we adopt a strategy of hiring international investigators and international attorneys such as Church & Church of UK, who have been on this business for over 200 years, specialising on contracts which are ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion first and foremost because it is long overdue and secondly because we have really over- exposed ourselves as a country and as industry by ignoring the very fundamentals in veterinary medicine. I want to congratulate all veterinary surgeons because I dread those days we were at the university and still it is the hardest course you can tackle. The spectrum of that course, the programme that makes you a veterinary surgeon is frightening and would frighten anybody who is not made of that particular material. view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Having said that, there have been several dis-incentives from the part of Government to have this honorable profession perform what they are good at. Just to give you a quick overview, I want to tell this House that every time you take a cup of tea and you have some milk, you are exposed to a myriad of activities. It is not just microbes and pathogens, but also chemicals that could have come by way of a quack who handled a dairy animal somewhere in Nyandarua, Kinangop or wherever it was. Such a chemical may have such a serious effect ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say this because unlike human medicine, the veterinary medicine is complex. You are dealing with living creatures; big animals, the bovines like the cows and the rest and they do not talk. You have really to look them at the eyes, look at the mucus membranes, behavior, temperament, skin, gait and many other factors in order to make a deduction that there is a possibility of this. So, the quacks do something which is quite unethical. They come in, in a carpet bombing spring. “Carpet bombing” is a terminology which was introduced by the ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: We need very strong legal mechanisms that guarantee every housewife and every Kenyan; the nyama choma lovers that whatever they are going to have on their table has gone through a professional touch. It is such a serious situation that if you look through currently and you look at the number of deaths that we are having, you will be surprised that most of these cases that we are having, are caused, not by these diseases but by a nutritional regime and the status of health and foods, particularly in the dry areas. Again when this happens, somebody goes to ... view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this profession is understaffed. Subsequently, we have herdsmen, dip attendants and other people who have not had this kind of training, all of them posing as veterinary surgeons. They refer to themselves as doctors. That is where the mess is. That forms the basis for this particular Bill. view
• 23 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: I do realize that time is not for me, but during the next sitting, with your permission--- view
• 16 Feb 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, looking at the figures given by the Right hon. Prime Minister, you realize that YU contributed only 0.1 per cent of the total revenues. If you look at the actual numbers they have 1.4 million subscribers; there is such a huge discrepancy between the revenue earning and the total number of customers. Could the Prime Minister enlighten us on how come that Safaricom Limited pays well 50 times more revenue than YU in relation to the number of subscribers? Secondly, if you look at Airtel and their customer base, which is about 1.9 to 2 million ... view