Martin Deric Ngunjiri Wambugu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I want to say that I have read this Bill and initially, I was torn between whether to support it or not. Before I take my position, I want to explain something. I am a product of tea. I was educated through tea payments from when I was a very young person. I have picked tea myself. My dad still runs a small tea farm. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying that, as I read through this Bill, there is a thing that confuses me a bit when I think through the various aspects of it. For example, I read about how the board will be formed and how it will function. I keep asking myself who we are making this Tea Bill for. As a country, we get stuck a lot on what the country is doing, how the country is doing and how the sector is doing. I keep asking myself this: “Yes, the sector could be doing well! Yes, ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: somebody made an independent decision. Nobody told my dad to plant tea. He made that decision himself. He looked for the seedling, took care of them, moved them to the farm, and has taken care of them for over 12 years. He has never been supported by the Government. But the minute he harvests his tea, we start telling him what is going to happen to that tea. We tell him he cannot mill or crush his tea. He cannot do things to that tea that he has produced. Then, you compare that farmer with the person who decided to ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: I thank you. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: (Nyeri Town, JP) view
• 26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Bill, specifically on the issue of telecommunication platforms. view
• 26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the reason we have been having a gambling problem is because of how easy it has been to access gambling using telephones. If for no other reason, the fact that this particular Bill stops that aspect of gambling is something that we should all appreciate. In Nyeri, one young person commits suicide every day. The major reason that is happening is gambling. Someone is given money to go and pay for something, but they assume they can turn it around very quickly and so they gamble with it. Some even think they can invest in gambling and make ... view
• 26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: In first world countries and in places where gambling is a business – sometimes when we discuss about gambling we think it is a game. One of the things I would have changed in the Bill is the name. Gambling is a business that is run by people who are out to make money and one of the things they used to read about is that the house never loses. The people who own the gambling infrastructure will never lose money. In countries that have had gambling business for a long time, they create systems that make it difficult to ... view
• 26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The reason we got to this point where Government had to close down a lot of our gambling business is because you would be sitting in the house and you are in the middle of financial problems; and an advert would come and give you a system of what you needed to press on your phone and hopefully make some money. A lot of people, homes, families and individuals have been destroyed by how easy it was to do that. This Bill has found a way of ensuring we do not do that anymore. It ensures that you have to ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have two issues. First, as a Member of the Committee on Administration and National Security, we have a lot of Questions that come to our Committee. The problem of lack of a place to do our meetings The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view