Julius Musili Mawathe

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 21 to 30 of 47.

• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Bill. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think as per the directives of the Ministry of Health, I want to agree with my colleague, Hon. Wamalwa, on the issue of zero rating duty on the masks. view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: The Ministry of Health has said that we must wear masks when we go out. The people of view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: and Mukuru kwa Reuben in my constituency have to borrow masks when they are going outside. They are borrowing masks from each other because one is not allowed to go out without a mask. They risk being arrested if they do not wear one. Those are the same people who normally earn Kshs400 to Kshs500 per day. They are paid weekly and that comes to around Ksh2,000 per week. Since factories have been closed in Industrial Area for the last three weeks, they have not had any income. They do not have food to eat. Even if a mask would ... view
• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: the Government started distributing food. I know they did funds disbursement to a few people who had been selected through some lists that were prepared, but it is time we distributed food. Otherwise, we have people who have not eaten for days. Somebody calls you and tells you that he has not had food in his house for the last three or four days and you are telling him to go and buy a mask for Kshs30. There is need for the Government to supply food especially to people in the slums. I am specifically addressing the people of Mukuru ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to comment on this. I want to thank the President for having moved swiftly and put the necessary measures to ensure that we are safe and okay. I think there is need for the people working below him in the Ministry of Health and county governments to ensure that they are well equipped and readily available to evacuate, in case an incident occurs or somebody is suspected to have contracted the coronavirus. We should not allow a situation like the one that occurred this morning where an individual was ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I rise to support because tea is a very crucial cash crop. It is the second source of foreign exchange for us as a country, only behind the people who reside outside Kenya – the Kenya remittances. As we support this Bill, and having heard you comment on my predecessor or my colleague who just spoke before me, there is also need to talk about diversifying away from tea and coffee to other cash crops. There are other cash crops besides tea ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. First, I want to congratulate the PAC for the wonderful job they have done. We have always worked with very outdated audit reports, but this Committee has almost brought us to the current financial year. They have brought the 2016/17 Audited Report. As we continue to support devolution in the division of revenue, we will use current figures of the 2016/17 Financial Year and the counties will get more money. I wish to support this point in the Report. Some of us ... view
• 1 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I rise to support the Early Childhood Education Bill. I am praying that we will get an opportunity to make amendments in the Committee of the whole House. view
• 1 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: A mistake was made when we were making the Constitution. We said that primary and secondary school education and university education should be managed and handled by the national Government and the ECD education by the county governments. There is no way a county, say, in south eastern Kenya, will allocate the same amount of funding to the ECD education as a county in North Eastern and yet we are supposed to have equal education for all the students regardless of where they are! So, I highly recommend that we amend this. I hope we will make amendments successfully, so ... view
• 1 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I beg to support. view