Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so, in my proposed amendment, we should talk about 60 years and above and actually look at the figure. I would like a response at one time before this Motion is passed because I believe it is going to be passed. I would like a response from the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Development. The Ministry should indicate to us what it entails, so that we do not do something that is not practical. We do not want to pass Motions that are not implemented, although the Implementation Committee is at hand to actually help ... view
• 18 May 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, I beg to support. view
• 4 May 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. In the few remaining minutes of my time, I will just concentrate on the functions of the Commission. I want to, first, congratulate the Minister for moving very fast to bring this Bill to us. If you look at the functions of the Commission, you will appreciate that there are issues which needed to have been tackled yesterday. We need this body to be formed immediately. We need to name the new commissioners immediately, so that we are able to function as a country. We ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to give a--- view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to give a Ministerial Statement in response to a request by Mr. Kabogo, the Member for Juja. He had requested a Ministerial Statement on an accident in which four members of a family were buried alive at the quarry in Umoja Area in Thika Municipality. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the accident under reference occurred at Umoja Quarries which are situated within Thika Municipality on Monday, 21st February, 2011. It involved a woman and her three children aged eight months, seven years and nine years, who were buried alive by the ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is true that backfilling is part of the process of using a mining area. A mining site at the point of exit must be backfilled to the required standards. I mentioned on 29th, when I was giving a report of my visit to Thika, generally, because we have hundreds and hundreds of disused mining areas that we have to compile a report to capture all these disused areas. I gave in my report last time that when we went to the area, we realized that actually, there was no backfilling in most of the ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: So, it is true that there was laxity at some point. Currently, there is a report that is going to give us an extensive inventory of what is active and what is not active in the whole district. I also mentioned that it is not just in Thika because we have quarries in most parts of the country that have been abandoned in a very bad way. So, I must agree that there was laxity. Right now, we are working with National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) staff to ensure that this cannot be allowed. The issue of compensation is not ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: When somebody signs for a quarry, he also signs for compensation of people who are hurt when they are on duty. What we do not have is the one that is disused. The assumption was that quarries that have been abandoned, must be backfilled. That report will raise a number of issues. We visited the site with NEMA members. We are conscious of the fact that there are a number of quarries that were abandoned and nothing was done. view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: An environmental impact assessment is done at the beginning, before any license is issued. The licensing of a quarry has the complication that we give a licence, but also the owner can give an authority to somebody who wants to do the quarry. I do note what the Member said about women being affected. This is a case where a woman with her children was fending for their life. They went to quarries that had been abandoned with the owner’s knowledge. So, the owner had allowed, just as we would allow anybody who does not need a contract, but who ... view
• 13 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: It is true that we require audit to be done periodically. However, normally, there is an exit clause after you have used a quarry, an audit is done and a closure is done. A closure of a quarry is another process that requires NEMA to also supervise. This is where we mentioned that we need to get the report come out. I know that in Thika, we only had one member of staff. We realized that they suffer from staff issues. Where we have active quarries like we did, that could have been an area which could have attracted more ... view