Lisamula Silverse Anami

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I would like to support the adoption of this Report. This Report requires much deeper consideration and this can come through amendments as well as implementation. It has touched on many pertinent issues that have led to the crisis that we experience in the sugar industry. We should get a little deeper especially on investigation. I would like to see an analysis which shows the socio-economic situation of communities that have been involved in this business. Live has changed in these sugar zones. People set aside their fields to plant sugarcane and so they cannot grow ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: changed their lives and culture to the extent that if this crisis continues, it is going to have a long- term impact on our socio-economic being in this country. We need to find ways of restoring this situation because it can happen. Many of the situations that we find ourselves in the sugar industry are because of corruption. People do things outside the scope of law. They are greedy and literally stealing. We need to confront these vices. We need to come up with strategies that will confront these vices in such a way that no one will ever wish ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is also the element of indiscipline in the public service. Most of the sugar factories that have fallen are those managed by the Government. This is because of impunity. Most Government institutions are targeted to be cash cows. The other day I was reading about the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) where people who had been asked to step aside subsequently sneaked back to NSSF and were working without the consent of the Board of Management. This is lack of discipline and impunity of the highest order. The same has also happened in the sugar factories. We ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: We also need to promote prudence. The cost of producing sugar in this country is all the time high because we have developed a “don’t-care” attitude. We do not care how much sugar we sell. We do not care about the cost at which we produce it. That is why we even go out of our way to import cheap sugar. We should engage the right people, like agro-economists, to give us the right dimensions in dealing with the sugar industry. We will then not have to import cheap sugar because our own sugar will be cheap. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would like to differ with my friends on the suggestion that we should keep the price of sugar high. We should keep the cost of production low so that the price of sugar can be even lower. That way, we will be promoting our own socio-economic scale. We will also be promoting consumption from within and we will not require importing at all. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of the cost of production of this Report. We have heard of several meetings that were held. I am sure that the Chairman will talk of several retreats that the Committee has gone to in order to come up with this Report. We still see some unfinished businesses in it. We need to find a way of engaging specialists – people who can come up with baseline reports – so that when the Report comes to this House, it does not only list problems but also provides solutions and strategies. The decisions that we will ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: give us information on how the farmer in the village can come up, and propose ways of dealing with these issues. view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: We have some peripheral issues which are serious. For instance, how do farmers produce their sugarcane? How do they deliver it to the factory? How is the sugarcane weighed? How much are they paid? How much do they lose? There is a lot of wastage that some farmers end up committing suicide because they cannot get what they expect. At the beginning, it was interesting. People in Mumias married up to six wives because they had a lot of money. All this disappeared because thieves set in and stole all the money. The wives and children they had given birth ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those remarks, I support. view
• 18 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, my intervention is to request that given the interest that we have in this Report, we could reduce contribution time to five minutes. That will enable all of us to share our diverse views about the Report. view