Kipruto Rono Kirwa

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 141 to 150 of 168.

• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that the Pyrethrum Board of Kenya owes farmers Kshs911 million, and not Kshs1.5 billion, as of 31st March, 2006. (b) The Pyrethrum Board of Kenya has continued to reduce the arrears by paying farmers as it markets the stock held in its stores. Between July, 2005 and March, 2006, the Board paid pyrethrum farmers a total of Kshs300 million. I want to confirm that the Board released Kshs35 million two days ago. view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish I could do something for the farmers, but I do not have the capacity to do what the hon. Member is suggesting. However, I intend to pay a further Kshs450 million to the farmers between now and June this year. view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I took over the Ministry, the arrears owed to farmers stood at Kshs1.8 billion. I have reduced them to Kshs900 million, and I have said that I intend to clear the balance of Kshs450 million between now and June. The main problem, as far as pyrethrum farmers are concerned, falls into two categories. One, the farmers had the stocks, but the institution had over- view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: borrowed and did not have the capacity to attract any money to it. But we have re-organized its operations to enable it attract some money, so as to enable it acquire new stocks and also be able to retire the farmers' arrears in their entirety. view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do agree with the hon. Member. I know that he is a pyrethrum farmer. I have already organised for his cheque. view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, several colleagues are requesting me to donate some time to them. But I will donate only two minutes to Mr. Wetangula only. view
• 19 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you give an hon. Member one minute, he takes five minutes. I would like to say the following:- First, I support the Motion. I do so for a number of reasons. I will state some here, and on April 19, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 545 others, we shall work together with my colleagues. It is useful for us to understand that problems affecting sugar-cane farmers and other farmers in general do not squarely lie in the Government's hands alone. They lie with us all as the people of this country. I just wanted to state ... view
• 18 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that there is excess and over-mature cane grown by farmers for SONY. (b) In order to ensure that both timely harvesting of cane and improved rate of paying farmers, the following measures have been in put in place: (i) SONY has embarked on expansion of its factory cane crushing capacity from the current 3,000 tonnes of cane per day to 6,500 tonnes of cane per day. Towards this direction, a due diligence exercise on the financial and technical aspects by Ms. Dyer and Blair have commenced today, the ... view
• 18 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, the due diligence exercise by the said company is being carried out on behalf of SONY and the Government, through Treasury, have jointly awarded the contract. It is until that is done, that we shall be able to assess the amount of money that is required to effectively implement the expansion programme. view
• 18 Apr 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we do not deal with constituencies when it comes to issues of expansion or setting up of new factories. Nonetheless, my Ministry last year, did an assessment of the entire SONY area to see whether there is suitability for a new sugar factory. We have established beyond any reasonable doubt that, indeed, we need two factories. One in Trans-Mara and another in Gucha District. view