Hon Jonah Mburu Mwangi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Jun 2020 in National Assembly: , what does it mean to be in the UN Security Council? I was telling her this is a great honour to our country. We have been elevated above so many countries in this world. We have become top of mind of many nations. We will benefit in tourism. We will benefit in decision-making with regard to security. I am not standing here today to only congratulate Kenya and the team that saw this through. I am standing here because I am very concerned about our competitors and the nations that did not vote for us. We are having our ... view
• 29 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am also concerned about that programme. Last time I requested the Chair to call the current Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury, Ukur Yattani, who was then the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection. The same people who are over 70 years are supposed to have money for medicare with the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) paid through a certain amount of the same money. When the Minister was called, I did not receive a clear answer on why the old people go to hospitals and they are told their cards have not been ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I am one of those people who come from constituencies which grow quality tea, but we are not earning enough money for many reasons. I do not want to lay all the blame on KTDA because, maybe, we have had a lot of issues with the management. But it is time we think pound-wise, instead of penny-wise. We have been thinking about the small things about KTDA and the small interests they put to run their affairs. Those percentages contribute up-to a maximum of ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Government to Government marketing. The Kenya Tea Board’s main role should be marketing our tea worldwide. In England, the white man says they have English tea while they do not produce tea. They import it from Brooke Bond Kenya, package it nicely and call it English Tea. But it comes from Kenya. When that tea is consumed in Europe, it is not Kenyan but English tea. China is the only country that produces, perhaps, ten times what Kenya produces. They market their tea as Chinese tea and it is now consumed worldwide. They have a benefit of having a very ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: I want to support this Bill because of the creation of the Board. I insist that I am happy with the nomination of the board members, although I wish that more farmers are nominated to the Board - especially small-scale farmers rather than the plantation farmers. This is because it is the small-scale farmers who have a very huge need to negotiate. Big farmers like Brooke Bond or Finlay can market their tea outside the country as corporates. But small-scale farmers who are taken by KTDA as the umbrella need more representation in the Board. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We are talking about markets that have existed for our tea in Kenya like Pakistan, Egypt and small countries like Lebanon. Those countries are undergoing a financial crisis. Pakistan’s currency to the Dollar has depreciated more than 100 per cent while Egypt has local wars. If we continuously depend on those countries, how do we expect to fetch more money for our tea? One role of the Kenya Tea Board is to present financial statements - the one that Hon. Kimunya opposed. Why? As Parliament, we give them a budget for marketing our tea because it should be a Government ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Licencing should be another role for the Board. After the Board was disbanded in 2012, for one to have a licence to be a processor or a dealer, one must have a minimum of 250 hectares to operate like a processor. Today, we have over 52 companies that have been registered as briefcase processors. What is the reason? Those crooks register companies but do not have even one tea tree in their farm. What happens after? Where do they get tea to process? They start the tea hawking problem. They come with pick-ups in my locality and start buying tea ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Let me talk about licencing of agents, factories and brokers. It has been in the interest of KTDA only to have their brokers who go and negotiate for the price during the auction. There is no one to regulate the brokers. That is why we should have the Board so that the minimum margins the brokers get are regulated by KTDA. Why? Because they represent a small-scale The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: farmer who needs to be assured of a minimum fetch of a price and assured of a minimum return for each kilogramme of tea he produces. If the Board in not there, how do you assure the farmer that there is a minimum return for the produce? view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of KTDA keeping money for too long, and do not show the interest that the money gains. Sometimes, they explain that money does not come instantly and that they sell to markets that pay after three months or sell on credit and the creditors do not pay on time. We should have a regulator so that he ascertains the credit period that such markets are given. If we sell our tea to England, do we take three months to pay KTDA? Or is it a cartel that will exist and give them more time to ... view