Kiplagat Jackson Mandago

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: However, we encourage the national administration to make sure they work with county governments who have the actual data and who know the actual farmers in the counties so that this fertilizer can reach the intended population. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: On the Paragraph 27 of the President’s speech, he informed the House of the reduction of the cost of credit by the mobile operators or online lenders. I want to congratulate the President for having consistently talked about this in his campaign. In his few days in office, he engaged these lenders and succeeded in ensuring that the cost of credit has been lowered by 40 per cent. Although the lowering by the operators is welcome, I would want to still say that the outstanding percentage is extremely high. I say this because if you check on the lending rates ... view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: 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
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: On the “hustler fund”, this is a fund that will be a game changer in this country for our youth depending on how the legislation, legal framework, regulation and training that is going to be offered to all the borrowers to ensure that this is sustainable. As you are aware, many young people in this country have innovations and some of these innovations have been stolen from the young people. There are blue-chip companies in this country who have taken advantage of our young people and their innovations. For lack of capital, they have stolen the applications and innovations from ... view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Also on this housing project, this was a programme that was ongoing. We want a situation where a county like Machakos should be able to supply sand and cement being manufactured in the country, used in affordable housing. We do not want a situation that we saw in the last programme, where the contractors were importing cement in millions of tonnes from China. By the time the programme was launched, all materials for construction of affordable housing were imported and our companies suffered from depressed markets. This is because the cement that was available for this programme found its way ... view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: 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
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: integrate the development of this housing with capacity building of our contractors and all our young people in our universities, so that we build local capacity. In the future, local contractors should undertake all these kinds of construction. I say this because the national Government commenced the program of constructing the Expressway, which expended over Kshs60 billion to Kshs70 billion from the national coffers. The technical knowhow was with the foreign contractors. You can see their multitude--- view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no objection. Being a ‘mono,’ I should be willing to be informed so that I learn. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I agree but from Sen. Faki’s statement, he ‘thinks’ so, he is not sure himself. The reason we need to integrate with training is so that we have capacity that, that project had a lot of structural constructions, that required very high expertise. Our universities and local contractors, if within the framework would have been involved in that project, within three or four-years’ time, it will be unnecessary to have international tenders for them to carry. The impact of that in the economy is that when we have local contractors doing such volume of work, the ... view
• 4 Oct 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is an important Motion. As the Senator for Uasin Gishu County and having served as a governor, the importance of the SBC cannot be understated. We need to get the Senate to its feet in order to discharge its mandate. The blame should not be on us when county governments are waiting for this House to make important decisions to enable them unlock some funds that are being held because of the laws that we need to amend. We need to have the SBC as soon as possible. I would like to persuade my colleagues on ... view