Lucas Kipkosgei Chepkitony

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of us rely on foreign assistance. I need to be away from the Committees fighting till evening, to look for more resources from some of our development partners. I need this recess to be able to do so. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you very much for recognising me. I wish to say that I support the Motion because I think we have overstayed in Parliament and it is time we went back to our constituencies to contribute to their development. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, from the outset, I want to talk about agriculture. Many hon. Members have talked about agriculture and they have given very good ideas. I think this country does not lack ideas. We are full of good ideas on what should be done to have sufficient food and have our economy performing. We should also grow other crops in the country to support the local economy. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I think one thing which has happened in this country is that there has been neglect of the agricultural sector by the Government over the last ten years. There has been no proper attention given to agricultural policies in order for agriculture to perform the way it should. A lot of people have talked about lack of food. We have a shortage of food because of the failure to adhere to the right policies to support agricultural production. So, there is lack of agricultural production because of various issues. One of them being the high ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, because of these high costs, farmers are not able to get enough money to buy these inputs. So, the main constraint is lack of agricultural credit to the farmer. If the Government can facilitate enough credit through the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) so that the farmers can access credit easily in order to enable them buy the necessary inputs, I do not see any problem in food production. The production areas last year were able to get enough rain but because the farmers did not buy sufficient inputs, they were not able to cultivate enough ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, another problem we have in the country is the high cost of fuel. Petroleum products are so expensive. The world price of crude oil is about US$36 per barrel and yet the price of diesel is over Kshs70 and petrol price is still very high. It is as if the price of crude oil is about US$70 per barrel. So, something must be done to bring down the cost of fuel. I think the cost of fuel is not coming down because of cartels in the oil companies. The Government promised to control the prices ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: So, the Government should still pursue that policy of regulating the prices. We should move out of liberalisation because the oil companies are unable to respond to the low crude oil prices in the world market. This high prices of petroleum is affecting not only agriculture but all other industries. Our industries are not performing well. There is high cost of electricity which is affecting the industries. The tariffs for electricity are very high when compared with other countries in the Common Market for Eastern and Southern African (COMESA) and East African regions. Our industrial products are unable to compete ... view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to talk about the CDF which is a very important fund to Members of Parliament. The disbursement of money from the CDF has been very slow and behind schedule. At the moment, they are disbursing about one quarter of the amount and view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: 5194 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES February 24, 2009 view