Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1571 to 1580 of 8498.

• 16 Jun 2020 in Senate: But you have not ruled today. view
• 16 Jun 2020 in Senate: You should say that. That was the point I was trying to tell you. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate Sen. Khaniri for bringing this important Statement. While I was preparing a Statement on strategic food reserve, I was told that Sen. Cherargei had already submitted a Statement on the same. So, one of the issues of great interest to me is a follow up on what Sen. Cherargei will raise. The Government said that it will not continue to buy maize from the strategic food reserve. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Food security is an important issue for this country. Agriculture has been praised to be a serious foreign earner. However, it is appalling that we still import 90 per cent of the rice, 75 per cent of wheat and 10 to 20 per cent of the maize that we consume despite the fact that we have a lot of arable land. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when the Jubilee Administration took office in 2013, one of the things that we promised the people of Kenya was to ensure that we use irrigation for farming and open up the arid and semi-arid areas as places for irrigation. That is why there was an agreement that Badasa Dam in Marsabit will be revived and used for irrigation. Also Arror and Kimwarer Projects were to be put in place. It is a shame that today, Arror and Kimwarer continue to attract foreign interests. We are paying loans with interest on a project that has been extremely ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: We know that in the lower Turkwel area, there is a bit of irrigation in Weiwei. Two years ago, I saw my friend, Prof. Lonyangapuo demonstrate the work that they are doing to irrigate the area. However, they are only operating on less than 10 per cent of the potential of the lower Turkwel. So, is the Government planning to give us continuous promises about food security or is there a way to coordinate the activities of, for example, Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA), which is supposed to implement the Arror and Kimwarer and lower Turkwel projects in coordination with ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: competition and infights within the Government at the expense of focusing on delivering to the people of Kenya. We are now told that the answer to every problem is to have a stimulus package for this and that. From where will we raise the money for the stimulus package and feed over 12 million Kenyans who directly depend on agriculture? This Statement by Sen. Khaniri is good. However, it must move beyond that. The last part of it challenges the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries to do a proper inquiry. We have been telling the various committees to come ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Lastly, when the formula for sharing resources will be brought to this House, one of the things the CRA did in the draft formula was to categorize certain important sectors that must be funded and agriculture is one of them. We must scrutinize it in this House. Therefore, we must save a certain percentage of these resources to go to agriculture, but must also go for the right interventions in the areas that we require to ensure that there is food security in this country. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Once again, congratulations Sen. Khaniri. I think our Committee should be able to do what it ought to do. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate Sen. Cherargei for coming up with this Statement. As I said earlier, he beat me to this Statement. I once drafted and presented it to the office of the Speaker but I was told there was a similar Statement by Sen. Cherargei who is a brilliant advocate. I have had many past engagements with him but I do not want to go into that now. Sen. Cherargei is seeking for a Statement, therefore, for us, is just to ride on it to get supplementary questions that we need. When I heard the ... view