Kipruto Rono Kirwa

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that as per the Legal view
• 29 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as far as I am concerned, there was no allocation required because we, as a Ministry, have the requisite funds to implement all the policies we put in place. Indeed, we have arrested 38 people who are being prosecuted. We have arrested 28 people in Nakuru District. view
• 29 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is from the ground and I am from the Ministry. As I said, we have arrested a number of people and 28 of them are from his own district. We are on the look-out and will arrest more because we have the necessary powers and resources to do so. May 29, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1665 view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) A total of 47,960 farmers have benefited from the waiver of outstanding interest amounting to Kshs1,348,797,669.20 since 2003. (b) The loans whose interest was waived are those that were expended to the industry's institutions for cane development. (c) Seventeen out-grower and miller institutions benefitted from the interest waiver as indicated below:- 1568 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES May 23, 2007 (i) The total amount borrowed by July, 2003, was Kshs3,303,731,882.30. (ii) The amount repaid by this time was Kshs656,489,515.12. (iii) The total accrued interest as stated above is Kshs1,348,797,969.20. view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it will be impossible to provide the list, but I can provide the names of the 17 out-grower institutions. I will table it if the House requires it. view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, at the beginning of the term of this Government, we brought before the House a waiver totalling Kshs2.8 billion in so far as the AFC is concerned. view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there are specific cases, I will be willing to address them. If the hon. Member raises any specific cases where farmers are still being asked to pay money, we will address them. view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to issue this Ministerial Statement. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the 2nd May, 2007 the hon. Member for Kitutu Masaba, Mr. Mwancha, demanded a Ministerial Statement on the Tea Development Agency, Lipton Tea Agreement. I wish to state as follows:- (i) Indeed, Lipton is subsidiary of Unilever which is both a tea producer in the country as Brooke Bond Tea and a buyer as Lipton. (ii) No tea marketing agency agreement exists between the two organizations, that is Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) and Lipton. What does exist is the tea purchasing agreement between them which ... view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I said is that--- view
• 23 May 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I thank my colleagues for raising those concerns. I want to respond as follows:- Mr. Speaker, Sir, as far as the benefits are concerned, any tea that is sold through any arrangement, such as the one between Lipton and the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA), it is sold above the auction price of the previous auction. That, therefore, means that it confers better status to the arrangement between the KTDA and Lipton. As I said, neither KTDA nor Lipton are abound to buy or sell to either party. May 23, 2007 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1579 Secondly, blending ... view