Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: life in terms of resources. For those of us who come from villages, we still feel that everywhere you go, people cannot afford healthcare, education and food and drought is still a challenge in our country. If we are growing constantly at this percentage, we must now think about how we can distribute this growth to benefit every citizen of this Republic. view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the President also noted that we are still focused on implementing Vision 2030 and, in the short term, the Big Four Agenda, whose flagship are four programmes. One of them is manufacturing, and the President captured it rightly that some of the successes in this intervening period was witnessing the Peugeot and Volkswagen assembly lines coming back to the country. Gladly, it is noted that 627 motor vehicles have been assembled up to now since the two assembly plants came back to the country. It is expected that this number will rise to 1,500 in the next ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, what is important for us, when we talk about manufacturing, is that it should not be such a huge, difficult thing which looks like it is far removed from common mwananchi . Manufacturing can be cottage industries in the local areas; it can be processing plants for tea, tomatoes, carrots and all kind of agricultural products. It can be value addition for fruits in the form of a mango factory that has been built by the Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) in Tot, in my county, amongst others. We have also seen what Makueni County is doing ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Secondly, Madam Temporary Speaker, the President captured the question of universal healthcare which is a very important part of the Big Four Agenda. He The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: particularly alluded to the fact that a pilot programme is ongoing in Isiolo, Machakos, Nyeri and Kisumu counties. We have seen in some counties are not waiting for this pilot programme to end. County governments are becoming more proactive. This is evident in Kitui, Nandi, Kajiado, among other counties in terms of pushing for universal healthcare coverage. view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the issue of food security has been captured in the Big Four Agenda. Its objective is to ensure that we become a food sustainable county. We should ensure that this is achieved through proper investments. view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to be sure how much time I have. I had assumed that it is--- view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: That is out of 30 minutes? view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Okay. These are some of the very important programmes that have been captured. Madam Temporary Speaker, I had the misconception that I had one hour; I wish I had been advised accordingly before. I would have skipped some of the things so that I capture others that I thought could be important to highlighting for the purpose of this House. Madam Temporary Speaker, there are two things I want to mention that the President noted. One of them is sustainable development, which is very important in terms of ensuring that we have development that is taking care of concerns of ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will faithfully stick to those five minutes. The President also captured the very important issue of education; that there is no turning back on the commitment to ensure that every child is going to school. That is something that the President emphasized. The National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) is not a fund for a Member of Parliament (MP), but for the national Government. He tried to give guidance; that it is important that most of the resources that come from NG-CDF are invested in education infrastructure. There should be no reason why we ... view