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• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: It is on this House’s record that the CORD Coalition made changes in their leadership. The new Minority Whip is hon. Thomas Mwadeghu. Therefore, I kindly request the House to approve this Motion to let the Minority Whip to represent the CORD Coalition in all the House Business organs for purposes of that office. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I beg to move and kindly request the Deputy Minority Whip to second. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as usual, the House Business Committee met on Tuesday this week at the rise of the House to prioritise the business of the House for next week. On Tuesday, 28th October, 2014, the House will go into Committee of the whole House to consider the Mining Bill, 2014. Bills lined up for Second Reading include the Insolvency Bill, 2014 and the Water Bill, in case they are not concluded today; the Companies Bill, 2014 view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, what hon. Midiwo has said regarding the direction that you gave yesterday is true. Immediately after the rise of the House yesterday, the Leader of Majority Party wrote to the Cabinet Secretary for Lands – he even spoke to her on phone – and delivered all the documents that were laid on the Table by hon. Midiwo yesterday. We are still waiting for a reply from the Cabinet Secretary. We anticipate that before close of business tomorrow, we will have gotten the reply because the communication of the Leader of Majority was that we should find time for ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Cabinet Secretary for Lands will come and respond to the question that was raised yesterday. view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to second this Bill and first let me congratulate the Mover for the way she has ably moved this Bill and actually made the House understand generally this very important Bill. The gist of this Bill is about providing regulations for the management, conserving, usage, developing of water resources and more importantly, the sewerage services which is a very critical component in both our urban and rural areas. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I picked about six very important aspects of this Bill and one of them, although it has been said by the Mover, ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: approved by this House under Clause 117, disputes arising from water uses are going to be addressed. Therefore, hon. Deputy Speaker, I would like to say that this Bill is very important in management, conserving, use and development of water and sewerage services. In both Parts II and III of the Bill, on the issue of water management, you know that we have so many institutions. I think those are the institutions that the Mover said they were unable to reduce. In every district we have what is called WARMA that manages rivers. We have District Water Services that check ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, if we are talking about the water towers of the Masai Mara area, Mau and the other five water towers in the country, for example, Mount Kenya and others, surely, we should not talk about political gain or political loss should any need to move people out in order to conserve the water catchment areas or water towers arise. By moving them out, you are even trying to protect those people around those areas so that they move to safer places where they can get water. This is as opposed to having them staying around water towers ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Clauses 107 and 108 on water use and development talk about levies that will be levied by the counties. I think underground water, sewerage or drainage need proper planning. There is need for the establishment of a policy both at the county and the national level. This Bill should explain how we can have this policy. For example, if you have towns, urban centres or cities and there is no proper planning in terms of sewerage or how to get underground water, you will not have proper development there. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 23 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, this Bill should be passed so that it can sort out those problems. There is the issue of water harvesting and water infrastructure. The infrastructure has been covered very well by the Mover. Water for irrigation need to be increased to enhance food security. The policy of the Jubilee Administration is to increase the amount of food that this country produces. This can be achieved through irrigation. That is why we are talking about irrigating a million acres in Galana, Tana River. This is to increase food production in this country. view