Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am happy to hear from the CS with whom we have served in this House, and his voice rings in very familiar tones. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: He has talked about subsidies, and emphasized that in every economy and sector, subsidies must be there. I would like to ask the CS what our current agricultural policy is. When Mwai Kibaki was President, we had the strategy for revitalization of agriculture, and the CS was in the Cabinet. That strategy talked of consolidation, and we ended up with the Agricultural and Food Authority (AFA). Today AFA is dead. Almost every other crop has divested from AFA, the latest being cotton. Tea has divested, as well as fisheries. We have not processed in this House a Sessional Paper on ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I also rise to support this report of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, which is a response to the Petition that was lodged in the Senate by Kerich Kiprono Hillary on the 12th June, 2023. I have noted some procedural innovations, which I am happy about. Previously, when committees had a report responding to a petitioner, the report would just be laid and that ends there. There could just be some general comments and that would be the end of it. I am happy that the House has innovated. When there is a Petition or ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: In its conclusion, the committee has given very clear action that should be undertaken by the Ministry for Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Bomet County Government to respond to the prayers that were put to the Senate by Mr. Kerich Kiprono Hillary. Again, because these are innovations, how I wish that this report would have a matrix, so that we know specifically what the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and Bomet County Government should each do. Agriculture is a shared concurrent function between the national and county governments. So, if we do not assign clear responsibility, you end ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: County, they go to an FTC, so that they can start a poultry project, which then collapses once their pension runs out. It should target young people. Madam Temporary Speaker, the fishermen in my area are still using traditional hunting and gathering techniques. They are investing nothing in the lake, but expecting that, at the end of the day, they will have a full catch. It has been like that for thousands if not millions of years That has been how humanity has approached fishing. They believe that God has put fish in the lake, rivers and streams, and our ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: when you are passing a farm, you will be amazed. This is a beautiful farm, very beautiful purple flowers, but that is the biggest pest that we have to contend with. For some time, the International Centre for Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE) based in Mbita Town in Homa Bay County tried to help farmers to deal with the striga menace. The only solution that seems to work, so far, is for farmers to pull out the striga at an early age. Striga seeds propagate through the roots. If you do not pull out the entire thing from the roots, ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: warehouse receipt, your child should never be sent away from school because it is as good as cash. To what extent have our farmers understood that concept or is it just the big millers and farmers, who are taking advantage of that situation? Taking advantage of good storage facilities offered by the National Cereal and Produce Board (NCPB). I believe that they have one of the registered warehouses where you can make your depository of crop and get a warehouse receipt. Since I sit with Sen. Wakoli in the Committee on Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries, it is time for this ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Not to challenge your directions, but when you look at the time, we have got just about 30 minutes before we close this session. When you look at the Order Paper, there are quite a number of questions. We run the risk of asking the questions then time runs out and then end up taking the written responses from the Cabinet Secretary, which will defeat the essence of this The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: session. When we put this in the Standing Orders, this session was never there. It was meant to build interaction with Cabinet Secretaries. I want to plead with you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let us not rush so that we finish. Let us have a substantive conversation and probably just take the first three or four questions and have the Cabinet Secretary to respond. If he responds satisfactorily within the time allowed, then the other questions can be asked. Otherwise, we will be engaging in an academic exercise, which is not the spirit of this session. view
• 19 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to give Notice of the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Select Committee on County Public Accounts on its consideration of the Reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of Tharaka Nithi, Homa Bay, Kakamega, Kirinyaga, Makueni, Meru, Bomet, Murang’a, Nandi, Nyamira, Nyeri, Siaya, Vihiga, Wajir and Samburu County Executives for the Financial Year 2019/2020 laid on the table of the Senate on Tuesday, 5th March, 2024. view