Dr. Mohammed Abdi Kuti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir that is a very good question. The Ministry of Livestock Development, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, is on high alert on the issue of Swine Flu. My technical team and that from the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation have already put in place the necessary arrangements to counter the disease. I am sure advertisements are already out in the public domain. This is done as a preventive measure through an Inter-Ministerial Committee that is already in operation. The country has been put on high alert in terms of resources, surveillance and ... view
• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to say that the World Organization for Animal Health is the one that verifies whether a country, zone or compartment is disease- free and it gives out certificates. While I would like to answer the issue of the OIE, I would like to point out that the issue of the border makes it almost impossible to get a disease-free status in the northern Kenya, especially in the border districts because of the cross-border movement of the pastoralists. Most of those pastoralists are just separated by a line but they are just one community. The ... view
• 5 May 2009 in National Assembly: But on the OIE issue, we have fought very hard as a country because the OIE has regional offices, that is, the Eastern and Central Africa Regional Office. We just won that petition and I am now taking a Cabinet memo so that the Government can house the OIE offices at the African Union International Bureau for Animal Resources (AUIBAR), which is a very small token. We hope very soon to have the OIE regional office based here in Nairobi. view
• 4 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have already consulted with the hon. Member and I have informed him that the answer I got is not adequate and satisfactory. I have already communicated to the hon. Member that, by next Wednesday, I will provide the House with a satisfactory answer. view
• 30 Oct 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT this House adopts Sessional Paper No.2 of 2008 on National Livestock Policy laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 17th July, 2008. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the livestock sector has a great potential which we, as a country, have not managed to tap to its full capacity. The sub-sector contributes, even as ignored as it is, 10 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Livestock is the mainstay of livelihoods for occupants of Arid and Semi Arid Lands (ASALs), which occupy 80 per cent of the land ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) Yes, I am aware that there is an outbreak of a disease killing sheep and goats in Nkutuk Elmuget area of Lodungokwe Location in Wamba Division and in actual fact, in most of the North Rift districts. I would like to clarify that the disease is not mysterious. It has been tested in the laboratory and it is a viral disease called Peste Des Petits Ruminants (PPR). It is a viral disease of sheep and goats, which is characterised by high fever and nosal discharge. It is highly contagious through contact and ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have dates and the number of animals that were vaccinated in the hon. Member's area of Nengede, Ngilai, Lodungukwe, Nkaroni and Resin. It was done on 17th, 18th, 19th, 20th and 24th. A total of 16,105 goats, 8,847 sheep were vaccinated in the hon. Member's area. We also did vaccinations in areas like Loruko and Kirisia divisions. With the few staff that we have, we were able to create as much awareness about that disease as possible, and quarantine is the most effective way of preventing the spread of that disease. That is because it is ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you will appreciate that increased services will require more resources, be it in terms of personnel, vehicles or tools to work with like vaccines. I had indicated through a Ministerial Statement here that we need 15 million doses in order to create a buffer zone. That disease was discovered in 2006 in Lodwar and Turkana and it has been coming down south. The best way to control it is through vaccination and creation of a buffer zone. That will prevent the spread of the disease southwards. That requires resources. When we had our sector Ministers' meeting in ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I appreciate the hon. Member's appeal for urgency in this matter. I think I had indicated the urgency of curbing that disease through my Ministerial Statement. I had also indicated that vaccination is the sole way of containing that disease. It is a viral disease and has no treatment. It is also highly contagious with very high mortality. Since 2006 to date, we have lost 2.7 million goats and sheep in this country. That figure does not seem to raise an alarm. It is not raising an alarm because it is only when diseases like Rift Valley ... view
• 31 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are pursuing that avenue. We have put proposals for an emergency because as I had said this is a food security issue. We are presenting it so that some form of restocking could be done because sheep and goats are very important to the people. They are the ones that you can immediately slaughter or sell so as to attend to the home needs, be it food, or be it health issues, or be it school fess or a few needs within the home. It is a very critical issue and we are considering that very ... view