Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, since we resumed business, the Senate Majority Leader has laid many papers before the House. A majority of them are reports of the Auditor-General on the accounts of various county executives, assemblies and various funds. For those of us who still go out to seek votes to come back to this House, the biggest question has been the action taken by the House on the reports of the Auditor- General. There is a lot of concern that some of these reports touch on governors whose terms are coming to an end. Therefore, there is concern that they ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to congratulate Sen. Khaniri. In the life of this Parliament and ever since I joined this Senate, he has always utilised this Standing Order in a manner that will help him in future to write his memoirs. He has always talked about topical issues. What I have seen other great leaders do is that they take their contributions in parliament and in public service and compile into a book. I encourage Sen. Khaniri to do so. Mr Speaker, Sir, one of the greatest scams of my generation, the generation that Sen. Khaniri is crying ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: The problem with the youth lies with the culture we have created, that agriculture is associated with failure. Where I come from, the lake has got a lot of riches. Recently I visited Victory Farms which is a huge aquaculture project that is doing 30 tonnes of fish a day. If you multiply that by 365 days and you multiply it with the price of fish at Kshs300 per kilogramme, this company is doing Kshs3.2 billion every year from the lake without doing anything. They are just putting cages in the lake, the fish is growing and they are making ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we need to build a culture that does not make agriculture look like dirty work. If you go to Wilson airport, the small aircrafts that you have there, if they are not owned by politicians, they are owned by the farmers of Narok and Laikipia. In view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: 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
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: fact, farmers are sending their children and workers to aviation schools because they are the ones who then come back and do overhead spraying. We must expose such things to our young people so that they can see agriculture is also glamorous. It is as glamorous as or even more glamorous than some of these things that we aspire to do in offices like being lawyers, doctors and engineers. To be honest, to be a successful lawyer in this country requires a lot of hard work. If you want to short circuit the system, you have to be corrupt to ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to encourage Sen. Khaniri that in this matter please also look at our cluelessness when it comes to policy. When the Kibaki Government came into power, the Economic Recovery Strategy for Wealth and Employment Creation came up with the strategy for revitalisation of agriculture. The Kibaki Government collapsed 30 parastatals into one parastatal that was called Agriculture and Food Authority (AFA). Over the years, this Parliament has dismantled the AFA. We now have a fisheries authority. We now have a Bill for a livestock authority. We are now back peddling on the reforms that we ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, even today we are told that there is no clear policy position regarding issues like National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) and fertilizer subsidies. I think Sen. Murkomen has been very vocal on some of those issues that there is some confusion from the national Government. We need to look at how that policy is discouraging our young people and the growth of this agriculture sector. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I finalise, there is also the failure of devolution. How many counties still have farmer training colleges? The ones that we have inherited in Homa Bay County, we have converted it into a university and the majority of the students are studying procurement and supply chain management. How are we going to build an army, a cadre of people who are going to do value addition and innovation in the agriculture sector? We must now re-examine this conversion of FTCs and colleges offering secretarial and accountancy courses and all sorts of white collar jobs. view