Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 5001 to 5010 of 5036.

• 12 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, without belabouring the points that I have raised, I support the Motion and thank the Mover for bringing it to the House. view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I would like to confirm to the House that I am, indeed, not hon. Shebesh. I am hon. Sakaja Johnson. I would like to seek further clarification on this matter because, indeed, it is a grave issue. It is really sad. When you compare those young girls in the universities, they are not in any way like the ones we have seen in the cases down at the Coast, who had an unfortunate incident a few weeks ago. That was about bestiality. Those are young girls who are in campus. Those are intelligent young girls; ... view
• 6 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and even as I do that, I would like to note that indeed it has been quite unfortunate that the tone of the debate over the past few weeks about where the Division of Revenue Bill should be discussed, whether it should go to the Senate, has degenerated into a supremacy war as to who is more superior between the Senate and the National Assembly. The content was lost in that debate. Whereas the Constitution is clear, I think the Report of the Committee on Budget and the recommendations ... view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to apologise. I had to dash out to deal with an urgent matter but I was here. However, thank you for giving me the opportunity all the same. view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would first like to thank Mheshimiwa Wamalwa who also happens to be my neighbour in Trans Nzoia for bringing such a Motion to the House because indeed it is long overdue. I am reminded of the parable of the talents in the Bible where a master left his home and gave three servants some talents or some money. One received one talent; another received two and another received five. The one who had one multiplied it and got two. The one who had two multiplied and got four but the one who had five buried it ... view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am glad the point has reached home. Either way, as a country, we have buried our talent. Kenya has the potential of being a net exporter of food. We can be Africa’s bread basket. Indeed, even my home country of Trans Nzoia alone can feed this entire country but for a long time we have been inefficient in terms of agriculture and production and we have not been serious. I am reminded of two or three years ago when we had some famine in this country and when there was the Kenya for Kenyans Programme, a ... view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, in support of this Motion I would like to point out that within this country we have solutions and I am glad that as part of the manifesto of the Jubilee Government there are indeed plans not only to irrigate more than a million acres but also to set up agricultural investment trusts because part of the way we can mobilise agriculture as an economic sector and also to feed our country is by public private partnership because the Government cannot do it all. I am also pleased that three quarters of Kenyans are actually involved in ... view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to apologise. I had to dash out to deal with an urgent matter but I was here. However, thank you for giving me the opportunity all the same. view
• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, my comments will be brief and I just want to give an example of what Nigeria has done with respect to fertilizer and with respect to distribution of subsidies. In Nigeria, they have used technology. From May 2012 they came up with a system called the “Electronic Wallet Programme” and in that system farmers were getting credit on their phones to go and collect fertilizer subsidies and that cut out so many levels of corruption. The company that did it says that they disbursed 28 billion worth of agricultural subsidies and in addition to that, they made ... view