Judah ole Metito

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1831 to 1840 of 1895.

• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Fund was gazetted on 8th December, 2006. That was for the purpose of providing the necessary legal framework to govern its operation. That was when the initial facilitation that opened up linkages for supply chains was started. However, it was not until 1st February, 2007 that the first tranche was released when His Excellency the President officially launched the Fund. So, from 1st February to 1st August is just six months. I would say that although there is still a lot of money lying in the bank, through the financial intermediaries, the ultimate beneficiaries would ... view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money that is going through the financial intermediaries has some conditions that are set by the Ministry and one of them is that the youth groups or individuals--- Those funds with the financial intermediaries can be accessed by individuals as well as groups. Some of the conditions that we agreed upon with the financial intermediaries are, first, not to ask for collateral and secondly, not to charge interest rates more than 8 per cent. I think that is fair if you try to compare with the market rates. Although I agree that some of the ... view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the money that is lying in the banks is obviously going to accrue some interest. The question is whether it is the youth groups that are going to benefit from the interest accrued or the financial intermediaries. Our concern is to speed up access to this Fund by the youth groups so that more money can be off-loaded from the accounts of the financial intermediaries. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not true that this money is going to benefit the children of the rich. So long as you are a young person, aged between 18 years and 35 years and you are a Kenyan, you are eligible to access this Fund whether individually or as an organized group. We have designed application forms and proposal formats that are available to the youth countrywide through divisional youth officers and social services. That is how they are going to formerly apply for these funds. So, it is not true to say that the Fund is only ... view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that we have agreements with financial intermediaries and I can avail them to this House. However, the interest that accrues is obviously loaded to the Fund account for further transmission to the youth groups. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to be able to give more clarification on that issue, I think I need to bring the agreement we have entered into with the financial intermediaries and then the House can update itself with more information. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir-- view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: It is okay, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute in support of Vote 11 - Ministry of Health. The Ministry of Health is a very important service Ministry. It has been doing well in the last four or five years. Therefore, I want to support this Vote. I would like to start by saying that I support the increased budget allocation that the Government has given this Ministry in this financial year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the last four or five years of this Government, the Ministry of Health has really shown a lot of ... view
• 1 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I was talking about the new face we are now seeing in our public health facilities in terms of cleanliness and refurbishment of the buildings. This is something we will urge the Ministry to continue doing. However, in spite of all the achievements this Ministry has got, there still remain some challenges that need to be addressed very urgently by this Ministry. One of them is the very persistent inadequacy of medical personnel in all our health facilities. This problem is even increasing given that we now have new health facilities being put up ... view