Joseph M'eruaki M'uthari

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the point of order is that the hon. Member is implying that there are research findings on miraa when we are aware that there is no Government organ that has come up with any research findings on miraa ; not even UNESCO. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, he said that there is information from UNESCO yet it is not there. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the extension of the work of this ad hoc Committee on the grounds that during this period it has been very active. I also happen to be a member of this Committee and it The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: has visited various places. It has listened to various agents of the Government and many times we had to invite them, not once. We realised that there has been very little --- view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. So, I was saying that this Committee has done a great job since it was formed. It has gone round. We realised that, to a large extent the report is not yet out because many Government agents have done nothing regarding miraa . To a large extent, we also realised that miraa growers have been marginalised and very little has been done about this crop. So, this is a great opportunity for the people of Nyambene who grow miraa to get justice by having their issues addressed appropriately by the Government. Through this ... view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: This is why we need this Committee’s time to be extended so that we can meet all the people that we have not been able to meet. This is so that we come up with an objective report which can be debated in this Chamber and then we can have the way forward. As I said, we have a tendency in this country to condemn issues. We do not look at the materials which we have. We wait for other people to discover what we have, they patent it and then we buy our own product. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: has got some substance which could be useful for this country, even for medicinal purposes or other purposes. So, instead of opposing things just for the sake of opposing, let us have the material facts. Let us have the truth about miraa. Let us have objective standards. This is what we are saying. This Committee might not have all that even by the end of the day but it will have serious and good recommendations which will chart the way forward and then Kenyans and the world at large will know what is in view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: . They will not start from the point of condemning but knowing what is in miraa . If there is something that is not good, we know what it is. Every substance has something good in it. If the Government cannot give money for research on the miraa crop, let it be known that it supports livelihoods of so many people. It brings more than 1 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in terms of foreign income to this country. It has to be considered and this Committee needs to be given time. So, I am pleading with ... view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: House, we will work on it, interrogate it and then we can be able to know the way forward. view
• 26 Sep 2013 in National Assembly: With these remarks, I support the extension. Thank you. view