Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2961 to 2970 of 8498.

• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: regulation are nothing compared to the benefits that come with having institutions or entities dealing with specialized crops focusing on those crops. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think it was a mistake, before the advent of devolution, for us to amalgamate and do away with the various entities, and replace with a huge Board which, in reality, is a representation of the Ministry of Agriculture and Irrigation. I am told that the reason why AFA is not working is because it is competing with the Ministry itself. The AFA has been amalgamated to carry everything that the Ministry has to do ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: food security and the ability for us to export and become the best country in terms of exports. We must also, as a nation, identify our areas of comparative advantage. Tea still remains one of our areas of great comparative advantage. We now need to ask ourselves whether we are diversifying, even inside the tea sector. Are we introducing different varieties of tea? Are we discussing which varieties can go to Somalia? How do we target the Arab world? How can we target the European, Chinese and the American market? Do we have various actors who are committed to having ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: The question we must continue asking ourselves is, should research become a national Government component, or should it be a function of private sector? My argument is that Government must continue having a say in the tea sector. However, 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
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: instead of having a Government parastatal doing it, let us have connection with universities. Sen. Cheruiyot should propose that the University of Kabianga be known as the Centre of National Tea Research. If you go there, you will know that, that is where tea research is done. Students are trained on new products of tea and also tea testers are trained there. If that is the headquarters of tea regulation, then we have a tea research centre there. We can also establish another tea centre in Limuru so that we have two research institutions. These institutions will marry university education ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Another provision says a person shall not export, import, market, or process tea or tea products unless he has applied for and obtained licence from the Authority. There is a sense of argument on both sides. On one hand, it is important because you are protecting people by telling them they must have licenses and so on. The only thing I am asking myself is the criminalisation of this. To what extent can we say that you punish someone for exporting tea without a licence? Maybe we need to separate the question of export, import, and market and the question ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator for Mombasa for coming up with this important Statement. I will start where Senator Junior ended, that education is very important--- view
• 12 Mar 2019 in Senate: Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. I can say Sen. Mutula, Sen. Junior, Junior Senator--- On a serious note, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. has said an important thing. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in Senate: It is important for our leaders in the counties, especially governors, to have certain level of education to facilitate the ability to appreciate the importance of county assemblies as arms of governments. This is not something for Mombasa alone. Many other county assemblies are facing a lot of attack from the county executives. As usual, Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) do oversight work but they do not receive the support they require. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in Senate: County assemblies must operate in an environment that is free of intimidation and threats. They must be reminded by those of us who will go for the Legislative Summit in a month’s time the importance of county assemblies in budgeting and development in the counties. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in Senate: I am aware that MCAs of my county are also facing attack. There are people who think that giving the county assembly Kshs500 million to oversight Kshs5.5 billion that we gave to Elgeyo-Marakwet County is a lot of money yet that county assembly must pay salaries, conduct public participation, legislation and oversight work in every ward. In fact, my county is one of the counties with the Ward Development Fund and there is an approach to oversighting those functions. I find it insulting. They were given a very little amount, which is just a fraction of Kshs5.5 billion that was ... view