Eng Mohammed Maalim Mahamud

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: The Tea Regulatory Authority of Kenya, as mentioned in the Bill shall perform the following functions: view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: “(a)Regulate, develop and promote the tea industry. (b)Co-ordinate the activities of individuals and organisations within the tea industry.” view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Hopefully, there will be no people who will monopolise and kick around the small farmers. Everybody should have an equal chance when it comes to tea production and marketing. view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: More than anything else, I wish to see that big factories are set in Kenya to value- add, so that Kenyan tea is branded and exported, instead of having tea in big containers at Mombasa tea auction, and later, when they go out of the country, it stops being Kenyan tea but a mixture of many teas. view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, attempts have been made by a few individuals to market the Kenya Tea Packers (KETEPA) and Kericho Gold. I think they are finding themselves in the market in small numbers. However, we would like this to be in large numbers because a lot of tracts of lands in Kenya are under tea cultivation. What we are seeing outside the country must be commensurate with the size of the plantations and activities that we are undertaking. Being a cash crop, we do not want the multinationals to export tea only as raw material and make money out of ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the headquarters of this Tea Regulatory Authority of Kenya is not supposed to be in Kericho. Kericho produces tea, but other parts of the country also do. Therefore, I would have wished the headquarters to be in Nairobi. Yes, the farmers are many in Kericho, but we should not make it a localised institution. The headquarters should be in Nairobi, just as with many other authorities. The functions of this Authority are international and include marketing and auctioning in Mombasa for export. Therefore, I think Nairobi would be a better hub than Kericho. view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: As to the Board, I wish it be expanded to not only include people who grow tea, but also other Kenyans. There must be other Kenyans who are well qualified and can 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
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: help us to market this. It is okay when we put the Principal Secretary for the time being responsible for agriculture, seven persons nominated by the Council of Governors (CoG) and one person nominated by the association representing the largest number of tea growers in the country that is maybe KTDA or the rest. We could add two other Kenyans. Let us blend it so that even those who do not grow tea can help tea grower to effectively manage the industry and help them, so that it becomes a Kenyan issue. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in supporting the Statement by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. Mr. Speaker, Sir, air transport as he has said, is one of the fastest. In air transport, the mistakes made can be disastrous. I am surprised that the Federal Aviation Administration of the United States of America (USA) has declared Boeing 7378 Max as safe. That is very reckless because two of the planes have crashed in the last five months. Over 2000 of the planes have been grounded. It is unfortunate that the country that hosts the manufacturers, the Boeing Seattle and South ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, having said that, today, I saw a 411 message that Somalia has banned some Antonov planes that fly to their country because they are very unsafe. There are lot of jungle planes all over the place. The other day at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA), two planes crashed unto one another on the runway. Those are mistakes we cannot make. view