Johnson Arthur Sakaja

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• 5 Jun 2013 in National Assembly: technological solutions that indeed can be effected. So, I want to thank Mheshimiwa Wamalwa for bringing this Motion. I want to fully support it and I urge this House, indeed, to support this Motion and also to give a challenge to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives to look for these companies that have provided solutions to other countries like Nigeria. I challenge them to specifically look for Cellulant and to direct it even to the Ministry so that we can, indeed, save our farmers. I am a farmer and I know what it means to wait for ... 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: I do not know why some hon. Members are laughing. I am a farmer in Kitale and I want to thank the hon. Member for bringing this Motion. I support and thank you. 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, 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
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to reluctantly support the Report. The reason I want to reluctantly support is because we realize that we are in a new dispensation that is, indeed, presidential. It is clear, and I am sure we have quite a number of constitutional lawyers in this House, that in a presidential system, the work of oversight and watchdog is the work of the entire Parliament. It is Parliament in its entirelity that is supposed to play that role. The danger that we have in passing these amendments, in as much as I ... view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: However, in as much as I have said that, I realize that it is a transitional period. view
• 16 May 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I am speaking on a fundamental issue. In fact, I think I would have the same opinion whatever side of the House I would have been. That is because even what I am saying is more for the benefit of your party of the coalition than this side. We have to set precedents in this House. We also have to avoid the danger of creating a mongrel system for this country that overwhelmingly passed a Constitution that gives us a pure presidential system. I think that is something that we can do later on. But let us ... view
• 9 May 2013 in National Assembly: I think there is need to explain the intention of Article 218. When we say that a memorandum accompanies the Bill, it is clear that the memorandum is not part of the bill but accompanies it. I think we all know that Acts of Parliament do not view