Lee Kinyanjui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Yes, we will prioritise it, in view of the concerns by the hon. Member. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for granting me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I wish to start by congratulating the mover of the Motion for bringing it at this particular time when the tea sector has been badly hit by declining prices. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: I wish to start by relating an incident that I experienced last week while on a visit to a place in Central Kenya. I had gone for a funeral there and I discovered that most of the small towns that were previously very vibrant in Central Province have since closed down. Instead, when you pass there you find hordes of young men, some of them half-drunk, and these are easy prey for getting into some of the groups that we have been talking about. Upon talking to some of the leaders in that region, the issue of tea came up ... view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: As a result of the falling prices of tea, the youth in those areas can no longer find employment. The few that find employment can hardly get payment because the money you get from tea cannot absorb the cost of operation. I think it is a serious matter which is replicated in other parts of the country where farmers wake up every day in the morning to tend to their crops, but upon taking their product to the market, they can hardly get what they expect. Therefore, this issue begs for answers. We should look at some of the issues ... view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to start by highlighting one or two issues that view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4480 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January, 28, 2009 view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: have been very important. In this year's budget we had factored Kshs400 million to be used to start a factory locally that would produce fertilizer and therefore, reduce the cost of producing fertilizer locally. Our assumption is that had that factory been established, then we would have reduced the cost of fertilizer which is a major input in the cost of production for tea and other crops. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Failure to produce some of these inputs locally has also had a significant impact on the prices of fertilizer and their availability. As a result, the cost of production has gone up. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Secondly, we know that in the production of most of these cash crops you use diesel. In the costing of diesel, especially last year, the prices had gone very high. In the duty structure for diesel we have the road maintenance levy. This is money that is levied for every litre of diesel that you consume. For farmers who use their machines on the road, the continued levy of this fund which is about Kshs9 per litre is extremely punitive and goes a long way towards increasing the cost of production. I think we should look for ways in which ... view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, there has been the issue of the KTDA which has been very inefficient. As has been said by the previous speakers, the inefficiency of the KTDA has finally been the problem of the farmer. Inefficiency arising from a bloated wage bill in respect of the directors and other workers, who are not actually qualified, is actually one of the biggest problems that we have. Therefore, we need to ensure that we restructure the KTDA in order to make it more efficient and more responsive to the needs of the farmer. view