Dr. Joyce Cherono Laboso

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3811 to 3818 of 3818.

• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: So, this Motion is extremely timely. There is serious diminishing returns in the tea industry. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, farmers are growing tea, but they are not seeing what the bushes are doing for them. It is no wonder that many of them are now uprooting the tea bushes. We have heard stories of tea bushes being uprooted in Central Province, the Rift Valley and in Kisii; this is because there is nothing that is coming out of tea. What has caused this sad event? One of the big problems that we are experiencing in the tea industry is that we are told that there is over-supply of tea in the world market. If there ... view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: There are many people who earn money from tea, yet some of them have never even seen a tea bush. We are told that there are brokers. Some of the brokerage companies, which are broking the marketing of tea, have never seen how a tea bush looks like. Is it right that people who are not involved in the actual production of tea are the ones earning the most from tea? That is an area that needs to be critically looked into. As the Mover of the Motion has said, we need to start thinking about tea being processed right ... view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, another reason that I believe could help the farmers is the value addition. As the Mover has said, our tea is not branded. It is sold in a very unbranded generic form. It is sold in bulk, which you cannot market. I want to re-emphasize that we want the tea farmers Ja nuary 28, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 27 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, is the Assistant Minister aware that some of the intermediaries they use are actually selling their own products using money from the Fund? view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when will the Ministry increase funding towards university education so that the universities do not have to rely on the parallel programmes? If funding is increased, the staff in the universities will not have to undergo moonlighting which means, for example, one can teach in the parallel programme in Kisumu in the morning and teach in Nairobi in the afternoon. view
• 21 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to address this House. Secondly, I would like to thank, most sincerely, the people of Sotik for giving me their votes. I would like to remind everybody that it was a very difficult task, but the people of Sotik made a very wise decision. Secondly, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to thank my party, ODM. I would like to thank the party leaders and all the ODM fraternity for everything that they did to support me to come to this House. I would also not ... view
• 20 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to make my maiden speech. My name is Ms. Lorna Laboso. I represent Sotik Constituency. I stand here to support the Presidential Speech which was quite exhaustive in many areas. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are certain areas that are quite dear to me. Sotik Constituency, just like many other parts of the country, was affected by post-election violence. However, the situation there was quite different. We tried so hard to quell the violence even though many people thought that it was caused by the people of ... view