Julius Kipbiwot Melly

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Chairperson. In the Committee, we actually discussed this exhaustively. One of the reasons is to protect the local tea industry. This is the section that is going to protect that sector. The funds that are going to be here... If we allow cheap imported tea and blend it with the local ones, by the end of the day, we will not protect our markets. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Petition by Hon. Onyango Oyoo. I come from the same region. The kind of treatment that Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries is meting out to our people, especially the people from my constituency of Tinderet and Muhoroni, is very appalling. Workers are not allowed to form unions. If they try to do so, they can be summarily dismissed. A number of them are supposed to toe the line of the cartels that have been given the right to recruit and dismiss at will. Hon. Speaker, the Kibos Sugar and Allied Industries ... view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I first want to commend Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah for such a brilliant Bill; a Bill that actually tries to manage disasters. Worldwide, it is known that disasters are rarely preventable. Some of them are natural. Some of the effects of disasters can be reduced by well-coordinated management. Even the Tsunamis in South East Asia and the earthquakes that happen in Europe, their effects have been so much reduced by a well-organised disaster management system. Every organisation is supposed to have a well-legislated, well-structured and well-managed disaster management system. This Bill tries to bring the ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report by the Committee on Implementation. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and Members in this House, Hon. Kenta has moved a very passionate Report on how farmers have been impoverished by poor policies, corruption and by a Government that does not listen to the people. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: I come from a region where we grow sugar-cane. Over 70 per cent of my constituency is occupied by sugar-cane and we supply it to factories in Chemelil, Muhoroni and Miwani. Those days when we were growing up, our parents could pay fees very easily. Today as we speak, many of the communities living along the Nandi Escarpment within the Nyando Region of Kisumu, Nandi and Kericho counties live in abject poverty – that is manmade poverty. The founding father of this nation was quite visionary especially in establishing those factories in the mid-1960s. Those factories employed many people in ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: As we speak now, sugar is one of the most sought after commodities in this country. Kenya, for the information of Members, is the largest sugar market in the East African region. We consume almost one million metric tonnes of sugar. Farmers in the western Kenya region are supposed to produce 500,000 metric tonnes. But if you check what the barons are doing... The western region, in terms of sugar-cane, supports about 14,000,000 Kenyans, both directly and indirectly. Those Kenyans are now staring at poverty. Hon. Kenta and the Committee on Implementation have just said it loud and clear. That, ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the neighbouring countries, for example, Sudan, South Africa and even Egypt, they are producing sugar. Right now, we cannot even be compared to our neighbour, Uganda and yet, we were leaders in sugar production. What happened to us? Every aspect of farming in Kenya is going down. The last affected crop is tea which is now facing a crisis again. Coffee and pyrethrum went under. Sugar was deliberately put down by greedy importers. Now, we are talking about unemployment in this country and yet, we know very well that if we are ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: alone. They will be well-paying jobs; not just jobs. Now, talk about other connected linkages in the industry, we will have over two million jobs. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: I just want to urge this House that it is time to act and put the Government on its toes to ensure that we, as Members of Parliament (MPs), do not legislate in vain. We make laws and those laws, the way Hon. Kenta has put it, are not taken seriously by the concerned Ministries and Government agencies to an extent that even a very good Bill… Right now, we are working on the Sugar Bill which has very good clauses on how to revive the sector. The Bill intends to create the Sugar Board and Sugar Development Levy. All ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report by the Special Funds Accounts Committee. I laud the Chairperson, especially on the details that the Report has brought forward on the impact of the NG-CDF in our society. The NG-CDF, like many other funds which the national Government channels to the ground, is the only Fund that is very visible and explicit. It has touched the lives of many Kenyans. You will realise that funds that go to the mwananchi from the national Government, especially from ministries, parastatals, partners and all other sources are rarely felt as the ... view