Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I raised this Question because we have respected Newspapers that have headlines like this:- view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: “ You want an early death, try giving birth in Kenya”. view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, that is serious. It does not take a rocket scientist to understand the very basic facts and I quote from another journal:- view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: “Many lives in Sub-Saharan Africa could be saved if women were given a simple course of tablets during pregnancies. The tablets including iron and calcium view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: supplements and anti malaria drugs, would prevent a range of diseases which occur in the weeks immediately following child-birth. These diseases such as anaemia, infection and hypertension can prove fatal to new mothers” view
• 15 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could I ask the Assistant Minister: Are we lacking these tablets in our hospitals? If we do, what are you doing to make sure that we do not lose mothers any more? view
• 13 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Development:- (a) what the Government is currently doing to encourage businesses and individuals to support the less fortunate members of the society; and, (b) what the long-term policies to encourage businesses and individuals to increase contributions to charity are. view
• 13 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a capitalist society and people become very rich through companies. The rest of the world encourages businesses to give to the poor by giving them tax breaks. I know the Minister is not the Minister for Finance but I am sure she could have an idea. Why can our Government not encourage our people to give to the poor by giving them small tax breaks like the rest of the world? view
• 13 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Commonwealth countries adopted that issue almost 56 years ago. So, there is nothing new in that aspect. My question to the Minister is this: We have many wealthy people and companies in this country. They are willing to give and so, we do not have to go and beg. We just need to give them an incentive! Could she undertake to this House that, as a Ministry, they will go and look very critically on how the poor could be helped? They should liaise with the Ministry of Finance to see how they can tap the ... view
• 13 Jul 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank the Minister for a job well done in his Ministry, but I have one question for him. We have some very incompetent officers in some parts of this country, and specifically in Laisamis. We have a lot of waiting cards for the last three years; some of the mistakes on them are made with a purpose. So, a person cannot get an ID card using those forms back in Laisamis. What will the Minister do to make sure that the officers who discriminate against people on the basis of their values and ... view