Kiplagat Jackson Mandago

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 491 to 500 of 504.

• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Therefore, I would like to confirm to this House that the President and his administration have every intention of making sure that the fight against corruption is upscaled but in a new manner where the institutions responsible are given the necessary resources. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: The President in his Address discussed about the issue of availing subsidized fertilizer to counties and regions that are going to experience short rains. I would to congratulate the President for this initiative and add that this subsidized fertilizer that is being moved to regions that are going to experience short rains, as a Senate and aware that agriculture is 95 per cent devolved, we would like the Ministry to work with county governments to ensure that this fertilizer reaches the intended farmers. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: As you are aware, county governments have data of their farmers. They have extension officers in the field. When national Government sends the fertilizer to counties to distribute, then we are confident that the intervention will produce the desired results. view
• 6 Oct 2022 in Senate: Other sectors of agriculture have also been touched by the President. A Senator here alluded that it seems at the onset of this administration, regions that never voted for this administration are being discriminated against. In the President’s speech he talked about 23 counties and 23 million Kenyans who are facing starvation. The speech did not specify that those 23 million Kenyans are those who supported this administration. The intervention that is being put by the President to ensure we have food through the subsidized fertilizer is timely and welcome. view
• 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