Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I will try to utilise the three minutes because I will only concentrate on one statement from Sen. Wetangula, basically because I studied agriculture in my Bachelor of Science (BSc.). We were shocked to learn that there is somebody in this age and time, who is looking for synthetic fertiliser instead of organic fertiliser; and that, a policy is coming out to ban organic fertiliser while we know that in most parts of the developed world, you buy products that have been nurtured organically at a premium price. You have asked the Committee to ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: additives in them. When you apply most of the synthetic fertilisers, they remain in the food system; so, we consume some of the binders of the nutrients that are required in the soil. Therefore, organic fertiliser is the way to go. It has been here from time immemorial and we do not expect anybody to go against it. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you have mentioned, there is a proposed milk policy which is ridiculous – that you cannot sell milk – I was shocked. I met a very clever farmer and he told me, “I would be able to ... view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Finally, when such policies come out, has anybody done any public participation? The reason we wanted public participation is because we found that there are a lot of reasonable contributions that should come from the communities and the public, that will tone down some of the things that are being done without any reasonable calculations. Was there any public participation in all of these policies; so that you can broadcast and say the Ministry has done it. view
• 9 Apr 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with those remarks, I thank you. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity. Let me start by thanking our dear brother and colleague. He has been given very many names, but I thank him for coming up with this timely Bill. It is timely because we have been talking about our oversight fund and we have been asking ourselves questions about what oversight is. I congratulate him for being extremely active and working on this with a lot of detail. Madam Temporary Speaker, I will be brief and only say a bit about public participation. Public participation has been totally abused. We have ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: public participation. Unless we do it, we have a very honourable statement in the Constitution that Kenyans must have a say in what is being done for them. This is very important; it is good for Kenyans to say: “I want a water project and not electricity this time round, if they are going to use their money for that.” Or, “Let us have a road and survive without water for a period of time.” This is because we know that devolution is here to stay and we better start planning for it. We must have a plan that will ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: I, therefore, recommend that rather than saying that we will facilitate the access, we will look for a way in which somebody else will facilitate, and we demand that we receive that information. Whether it is within the annual report, which is lengthy and takes a whole year for us to get, but if we want to set this country on a path of development, we need to get information faster than in an annual report. Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, we may want to have, in one of the sub- clauses, a statement that demands that as they give their ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: will have to relate to some experts in the Senate. Therefore, we need a monitoring and evaluation group in the Senate. As much as we need an audit and accounts office, we also need a monitoring and evaluation office. It will be a caucus on monitoring and evaluation. We went for a workshop sometime back and we learnt that a Senate that has monitoring and evaluation offices gets real time evaluation of projects. It is important for us to have a monitoring and evaluation office. That is an additional office that needs to come out for it to be established. ... view
• 2 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting the appointment of the new IG, Mr. Hillary Mutyambai. This is the way we should go, as Kenyans. Maybe we should be calling ourselves by the first name so that it is easier, faster and does not have any connotation of who is who. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, most of us do not know this man, but looking through the Report that was given by the Committee, it is clear that he has the same character as the outgoing IG. He is diligent, ... view
• 2 Apr 2019 in Senate: accommodated. We are in a worrying situation where people take the law into their hands, and a lot of innocent people have died because of that. People would shout, “Thief, thief,” and the next person found running is stoned or sometimes killed; only for the people to later ask, “What did he do?” That happens because people do not believe that there is a police or security force that can deal with that situation. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as we wish our new IG well, we want him to change the scenario for people to believe that someone who is ... view