10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
I am happy that Sen. Wambua has proposed it. I want to tell him that, that framework already exists. Madam Temporary Speaker, you are a livestock farmer. I was on a trip last week in Dubai. The Minister in charge of Trade in the Government of Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), told us that they are looking for livestock. They are importing livestock from Australia. Madam Temporary Speaker, I even want to ask you how many heads of livestock you have, and how fast you would have those heads of livestock transported to Dubai; same as Sen. Farhiya ...
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
People are suffering and yet this crop is going to waste. Madam Temporary Speaker, when sometimes I hear the conversations going out in the public domain about poor people in Kenya, I believe that some of it is deliberate. We make Kenyans poor so that we take advantage. I have just read a statement this afternoon about a speech read in the Kirinyaga County Assembly about the production of a million eggs. I was very surprised that we are actually importing eggs from Uganda. I was very pleased to read that statement that, in fact, cotton farmers are being given ...
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
with very nice looking bananas and oranges are actually getting this from Twiga Foods. Twiga Foods is doing the A-Z of farming. It is a private company. Why can the county governments that have resources not do the same? It is not difficult that they do those sorts of things. Somebody asked about livestock in Kenya and they asked: “What is the acidity or PH value of soil in North Eastern for purposes of livestock?” Why has anybody in the
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
county government not answered that question? Nobody has answered that question, but the question is important because it goes to the value of the beef. Why is it difficulty for county governments or the economic bloc, which has a bank to do export of beef to UAE, likewise to the economic block that exists in Lake Victoria? I was surprised to learn that there is a company by the name DP World. DP World has agreed to do a cold storage for Rwanda, a landlocked nation. I think Makueni is bigger than Rwanda, but they have a cold storage and ...
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
We should talk about ordinary people every day and all the time, not because we want somebody we know to become a President. No! Let us speak about them because these are the people who elect us. The majority of the people who queued to elect me, with about 300,000 votes are poor people. I should speak about them every day, so that we can make a difference. About Kshs1,000 or USD10 a day to the ordinary people who elected you is more than the things that I am hearing out there in the political circles; things that do not ...
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
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9 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I support the Motion, although I am also a Member. This will be an important Session. If there is a time that you require some thick skin or prayer, it is this Session. If there is a time that there will be hostile takeovers, mergers and parties will split, it is this Session. We will be calling upon you to guide us.
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