Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me the opportunity to join other hon. Members in supporting this Motion. In supporting, I would like to thank Mr. Namwamba for being on the side of farmers at this very critical moment. I support this Motion because the history of the KCC is well known to those of us who were raised by farmers, that is those of us whose school fees were paid from the sale of milk. The history is very sad because in those days farmers never sold just raw milk; they sold processed milk. The farmers ... view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is very sad that in the changes that have taken place in KCC from the original KCC, the New KCC to the current KCC which is a Government parastatal, farmers are almost forgotten. I support this Motion because this is an asset that has owners. We cannot privatize something that has ownership. The ownership is known. The co-operative societies of the farmers are known wherever they are. If today we ask farmers to give us their registers right from the local areas, I am sure even the farmers of Chepkorio where I was born will ... view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am saying this because sometimes we convert ownership only to attract a lot of failures. A businessman will not be interested in production the way the farmer is interested. The pain of producing milk is only felt by the producers themselves. The challenges that they face in raising their animals are only known to them. So, it is very important that we do not mix the issue of milk production and business ventures that our business community would want to go into. We would like to have improvements, but we know that the sector has ... view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Also, I will be encouraging the Minister for Co-operative Development and Marketing that the Government has no business having shares in a co-operative society. A co-operative society belongs to farmers. We cannot run the Government by selling cheese and butter. We should be dealing with other issues and the taxation that comes out of it. But as a parastatal, we should hand it over because it was a transition stage. As the Minister has expressed to the farmers from region to region, and he came to Eldoret to discuss this, the Government is holding it in custody for the farmers ... view
• 18 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: I would like to strongly support that the plant privatization should be halted, so that the farmers convert themselves from the co-operative society to the private company, if they so wish. If they wish to continue as a co-operative society, so be it because the choice should be theirs. They are very strong farmers and should sort themselves out. With those few remarks, I support. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to join my colleagues in supporting the Motion for Adjournment. We really need a break to go and discuss a number of things even with committees. At the same time need we to go home to deal with our constituents. At this juncture, I want to say that there are a number of issues that some of us are keen on during this recess. I am happy and appreciate the Members of Parliament who will be joining the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology tomorrow in Mombasa to discuss the Bioscience Bill. This is ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy, Speaker, today, in the Ministry, we also received a Report from the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) on the ethnicity audit that was done in our universities. I want to confirm to the nation that we are ready, as a Ministry, to implement the recommendations that have been given. In fact, we received it with the senior members of the Ministry and the truth is whatever appeared in the Press. There seems to be some ethnic imbalance in our education sector. It is true and we are going to pursue that. In fact, this break gives ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: So, I believe that this is a well earned break. We need to move out and start implementing parts of the Constitution that require implementing. I have no doubt that each one of us has a very noble agenda for this break. In our Ministry, again, we are trying to complete the alignment of our laws to the new Constitution. I think this break will also be very useful and we should be back very soon appealing to hon. Members that, even as we come with a law, particularly the united law for higher education--- That is because we are ... view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 22 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank you for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in passing my condolences to the family of hon. John Michuki. I have worked under hon. Michuki as his Assistant Minister. He was a very intelligent man. He was very courageous. He was a man who was extremely thorough in everything that he did. This country is going to miss him. I think I happen to be the last person to have been in an official function with him. We were in a meeting in Durban, South Africa, in December, 2011, preparing for the ... view