John Sakwa Bunyasi

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• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: are able to get from the communities, how much can we add to it through borrowing? There should be a line of cost minimisation. That is not happening. That is why I think it is extremely important to have alternative ways of managing public debt in such a way that the Treasury mandarins can take it as given rather than as the main driver. I expect that in the next few weeks, we will have a proposed legislation in the pipeline that will help to improve the management of public debt. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, let me just cut off. It looks like I have a minute there, but let me leave it at that. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to comment and contribute to the Tea Bill (Senate Bill No.36 of 2018). History repeats itself. I guess no nation should be embarrassed to have to repeat history. We had the Tea Board of Kenya for many years. I think whatever the rationale was at the time was obviously not too far-sighted. They amalgamated this into one monstrous organisation which we are now struggling to un-bundle to go back to where we were before. We have wasted time and resources. Looking at this Bill, I do not see how it is significantly saving us ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: aker (Hon. Patrick Mariru) took the Chair) view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, one of the major failures was not within the sector. It was infrastructural. Earlier, there had been dedicated efforts to provide tea roads, power, and things like that, but when those utilities or infrastructure plans affecting roads failed, the tea sector was caught into it. During the old days, you could have bad roads but, as you enter the tea zones, you would get reasonably well-maintained roads. That was the way to go. When there is a general failure in the sector, off course, it affects commodities like those. I support this revival, relooking and ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: copied from Kenya. They even brought scientists from Kenya who worked with them. Many other countries learnt from Kenya. We also had the development of cultivars, which are now well known in the industry and have been researched on and written about. All this was fully developed in Kenya. Those were the days when all of that research was done within the context of the resources of the industry, with the national Government playing a regulatory role to ensure that they found a sanitary site and other regulations that conformed to international standards. The role was limited, and it kept ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: around the tea industry. The architects of this Bill are not taking us to the next level that we want to go to. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, lastly, tea is grown in areas whose soil and climatic conditions are favourable, because it requires a lot of rainfall, specific soil types and so on. Therefore, it is amenable to a lot of other activities that can be done in those areas. We must acknowledge that, if that is not understood well, you will not get great expansion in the tea sector because the dairy sector will be competing with it. There ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I kind of support. view
• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to pass the condolences of the people of Nambale and Busia County at large. Having been around when we got Independence, I saw the transformation of the former President from a conservative who saw very far – I wish he had been followed prior to Independence – to a patient Vice-President, then a collegial President in his first four years, to a container. He believed strongly in the containment. We should follow his example in matters of the Constitution, especially in terms of time limits; we should not attempt to change them. That is ... view