Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2101 to 2110 of 8498.

• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other amendment in Section 5 deals with amending provisions talking about local authority; and it expressly refers to county governments, because the local authority does not exist anymore. We have county governments replacing it, which is also a local government. If the Act had said local government, it would be superfluous to even refer to the county government, but in any case local government is the county government. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Section 5(4) deals with offences if you make false statements in an application for license. Section 5(4) enhances the penalty from Kshs5,000 to Kshs1million, and for a jail term of six months. Our Committee in the Senate is proposing an amendment that it should be Kshs5,000 instead of Kshs1 million, and that the six months is retained. There is also the penalty where security is not provided for in the Act itself. With regard to depositing of security, the Section is saying that the security should be Kshs20 million, but the Senate Committee says it should remain Kshs5 million. This ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I remind Members that I agree with all the amendments that have been brought by our Committee, because it is just about proportionality of punishment. You cannot just move from Kshs5,000 to Kshs1 million in one day. You should move to a reasonable amount of money. The reasoning of our Committee was that you should not also punish those who are entering the business to protect the big boys. We should also not make it excessive punishment. If you did not like this kind of business, then it was important not to approve ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the amendments in the Dairy Act, these are very few. We were to expand the definition of milk from milk, which in those days, was known to be only cow milk, to also capture milk from other animals. Our Committee removes the question of milk from definition of milk becoming solid--- First of all, the milk should be from goats and camel. I do not know why it is also not from sheep, because I grew up milking sheep. That is something we should consider during the--- view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am proposing that at the Committee Stage, it should be goats, camel, sheep and donkeys, because we milk donkeys in Turkana. In fact, in most parts of the country where donkeys are milked, it is believed that their milk is of high medicinal value--- view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Whatever brings milk, we let it be milked, as long as it is not human beings and also not --- view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think the reason the Committee left out sheep was basically because globally, sheep milk has not been commercialised to the point we would have to worry about it being sold in the market. However, I can tell you for sure that I used to milk my Merino sheep. A glass of Merino sheep milk can prepare – I do not know how to measure – a big sufuria of tea. It has a higher concentration than if you were to use cow milk. I am talking from experience. If you have two or three Merino ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights proposes that this Section be deleted so that matters to do with punishment are retained by Parliament, and not via regulation. For example, discretionary powers on matters of fines should not be left to a CS. I fairly disagree with the Committee because the CS cannot make the regulation on his or her own. It will come to Parliament for approval; so we can still discuss that. I would have appreciated if the Committee did not remove that important punishment, because mishandling of milk is dangerous for ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should be serious with regulations on matters that deal with the health of the people of this country. We spend a lot of money to treat serious diseases whose root cause is the way we handle food and dispose substances. This is an area that we must take seriously. I, therefore, persuade the Committee that when we come to the Committee Stage, we should allow this regulation to remain in place. If not, we should prepare an amendment of the main Act so that we provide the punishment there. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in Senate: “There shall be payable to the Board by every producer a dairy regulatory levy a rate of 0.2 per cent of ex-factory price per kilogram of marketed processed milk and milk products. (2) Despite subsection (1), a county government may, pursuant to Article Section 209 (3)(c) of the Constitution, impose a cess payable to county governments on any milk or milk products produced within the county.” Our Committee proposes that this Section be deleted. The argument is that the provision allows the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) to charge a regulatory levy on milk and milk products. The Committee noted that ... view