John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Again, the environments are managed. In India, the movement of commodities in and out is highly regulated, including the currency. The proportion of resources that are circulated in the warehouse system is small relative to the aggregate production. We need to keep that in mind. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Further, while we worry about questions of environment and particularly think of a country like India that we have mentioned, it has a strong institutional basis as the United States of America and Holland have in their co-operatives and associations. There are risks and gains in this system. The gains occur along the value chain from the time they leave the farmer to the time the last bag is sold. They internalise that through their co-operative system. That co- operative system, as it happened when warehouse systems were being developed, owns that chain. Whenever along that chain the benefits occur, ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: - had heavy financial losses for the taxpayer. Instead of collecting losses to the taxpayer, they use market-like systems that spread the risks and put that risk back in the private sector through some systems of this nature. That then is going to spread along many producers and so on. Here we are. We are farmers who produce the surplus for the market, but who are living at the poverty level. That is why my colleague, Dr. Eseli, was saying that we should subsidise farmers. They are living at the poverty level even though they are producing surplus relative to ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: around this have been brought into this Bill, but the guys have gone to the internet, they have visited, they have benchmarked, they have seen what is happening in other places but the environment is not right. I have worked in India a lot. Only a few states have adopted and only a small proportion of the aggregate commodity is going through that system. Let us think about it carefully before we bring a good idea in a system that is going to fleece our farmers. Thank you. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to add my voice in great support to the initiative which was brought before the House by the young ladies. They presented extremely well. It was very impressive. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I would like to say on record that I believe strongly that we have achieved equality between boys and girls. We are now beginning to exceed the opportunities in education for the girl-child in Nambale. I believe that they should be balanced in life. We have put in place several measures that have increased enrolment of the girls in high school. That is why we have the Petition. We should think about the opportunities for the girl-child through the cycle of life but not just at the young age. We should remove the deficit in opportunity in education. They should ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate the concerns of the Committee on Implementation and the corrective action they have taken because they did not give a fair hearing to a corporate Kenyan. view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I am concerned about the intensity of the defence. In the process of defending that action, I have a feeling they are going overboard a bit. The only valid position I see is that they were accused without a fair hearing and if they had a hearing, they would have had a chance to evaluate that hearing in the context of the evidence. If you go beyond that and begin to do what appears to be sanitisation, that bothers me. The principle behind it bothers me. We should just stick to the fact that we have made a correction in ... view
• 11 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The number of employees and the amount of taxes they pay would have no bearing if they had been guilty of what they were accused of, if evidence had been adduced. We should stick with the technicalities that have been corrected. They were sound enough to ask the House to recall that recommendation. I do not think we should go beyond that in respect of defending this particular company. That is my concern. As it goes down the annals of history, if you look at it you might find that in the absence of what you all know already, there ... view