Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: With those words, I would like to conclude and thank all the hon. Members for supporting this Bill. view
• 18 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: I beg to move. view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to congratulate hon. Otichilo for moving a very important Motion. I would also like to thank him for his incredible environmental background and for giving us insights into the issues of Lake Turkana and River Omo. As Dr. Otichilo said, 90 per cent of the water that goes into Lake Turkana comes from River Omo. I represent a society that lives along Lake Turkana, mainly the Rendilles, Turkanas and the Samburus. These people depend on fishing, grazing and tourism. That is the base of their lives. Dr. Otichilo and researchers have said ... view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if Egypt can sustain pressure on East African countries for water for this long, why can we not do the same to save our people’s lives? Hon. Nanok spoke about the issue of power. If it is really power that we need, hon. Kamama’s constituency is capable of producing 6,000 megawatts. In my own constituency, we are capable of producing 2,000 megawatts. Hon. Chachu’s constituency can produce 1,000 megawatts. We are able to produce 10,000 megawatts of wind power and geothermal power. Why are we going after 1,850 megawatts from Ethiopia when we can change ... view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the effects on Lake Turkana, first of all the world is going green, which means we will mostly depend on wind and solar energy. All the communities that live within Lake Turkana at the moment have an incredible potential of wind power. If we do not have that component of the wind pattern from Lake Turkana, then there will be no wind power from that region for many years to come. view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, having 500,000 people lose their livelihoods is the same as creating another Dadaab in our own country. We will have refugees, and we will not be able to feed them because we currently are feeding the ones we have now. Having more refugees in the form of those who live on the shores of that lake is most undesirable. Why do we have to create another Dadaab in our own country, because our Government is not able to tell the Ethiopians that they cannot gamble with our people’s lives? view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, to conclude, because I know a lot of my colleagues want to contribute, the area is also home to the Elemi tribe. Most Kenyans know that this is a volatile area; it has a disputed border between Kenya, Ethiopia and the Sudan. Traditional resources will diminish because we get water from River Omo. We get floods and they create grazing area. Also, they create crops. So, if we are not careful, we will create shortage of food and water. We will have no power, because the wind power will not be there any more; we ... view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: So, as I join my colleagues in supporting this Motion, I would like our Government to do everything possible, or within its power, to make sure that construction of this Gibe 3 Dam is stopped, so that we protect our people’s lives. view
• 10 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 4 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Unclaimed Financial Assets Bill be now read a Second Time. I will be very brief because many hon. Members have read this Bill and do understand it. I would like to start by thanking my fellow Members of Parliament, the stakeholders, the media and members of the public for being very supportive of the Unclaimed Financial Assets Bill, 2011. I have consulted widely with members of the public, friends and various stakeholders on this Bill. I am glad to say that it is getting a lot of support all over ... view