Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Dec 2022 in Senate: Hon. Kawira--- view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to thank Sen. Cherarkey for the Statement on maize importation. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: It is sad that we are back to the same problem that we were in three years ago when the current Speaker for the National Assembly and I had to investigate the very same issue of importation of maize when it was being harvested. Luckily, God has blessed us with productivity in the grain growing zones this time and there is bumper harvest in Trans Nzoia, Bungoma, Nandi, Uasin Gishu and the islands of Elgeyo Marakwet. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: The harvesting is going on right now. We find a lot of lorries ferrying maize from Uasin Gishu to other places. You ask yourself, what really informed the decision to import maize now? Yes, maize may not be enough because most parts of the country were dry. We did not get as much as we would have gotten under normal circumstances in Meru and other places. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: As I support this Statement, the Committee should also relook at the report that we developed after our investigations into the maize issue. What we realized was that view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: some of the approvals were overshot by more than double. An approval is given by the Cabinet on importation of maize to a certain tune. We discovered they had imported more than double of what was required. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: As they question that, they need to look at our earlier report because it was a report of this House so that we make sure that we do not suffer double jeopardy. I can assure you that the harvest in North Rift is very good and we should not be having problems. Yesterday, we spoke to the Cabinet Secretary for Education and we said: “You have enough maize and we should not have children not going to school.” Children from Kajiado and Northern Kenya are at home basically because there is no food. As a House we should put our ... view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: The other thing we need to look at is the role of the governors in this. Agriculture is devolved except for policy. What are the governors doing? Why are we not seeing them frantically looking for food in some of these areas? As we question the importation, we also need to start questioning the distribution of food in this country from the growing to the consumption zones because the country will continue that way for a long time with climate change setting in and having problems. view
• 23 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you for the opportunity. I stand with Sen. Cherarkey’s Statement. We cannot afford to import maize at a time when harvesting is taking place. They can do importation any other time when we do not have food. Now that we have, I urge the Cabinet Secretary for Trade, Investment and Industry to avoid mixing things and allow the Ministry of Agriculture to open the depots first so that farmers can release their maize before any importation is done. I thank you. view