Mwangi Kiunjuri

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have no objection as long as I will not be asked by the Prime Minister to give papers to be tabled in this House. view
• 21 Jul 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I believe that this directive should come from the Chair because this Questions now falls under the Clerk of the National Assembly. I believe the Chair should direct the Clerk of the National Assembly to take action. view
• 24 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I raised a similar point of order in the Ninth Parliament, in 2006 concerning the order of Questions on the Order Paper. The ruling of the Speaker then was that all Ministries are equal, and no Ministry is more prominent than the other. Therefore, there is no Ministry that should be given preference, so that Questions directed to it always appear first on the Order Paper. It is not by accident that some Questions always appear last on the Order Paper. You will notice that even in the morning, the Question that ... view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The dams that were constructed by colonial-era farmers in Ol Kalou are 85. The location of the dams is tabulated in Table 1 of the supplementary information, which I made sure the hon. Member had the advantage of looking at. The dams are operational. However, the water storage capacity of the dams has greatly reduced over the years due to silting caused mainly by destruction of their catchment areas arising from human activities. (b) My Ministry has and will continue to undertake de-silting of dams throughout the country aimed at restoring ... view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the engineers recommended that we rehabilitate these dams at a cost of Kshs315 million. You will accept that the Ministry cannot, therefore, do this in one financial year. However, as we adjust our budget, we want to assure the hon. Member that we will de-silt more than six dams per year. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to plead with Members of Parliament that, instead of them buying graders for their constituencies, we need excavators more than graders. Could Members consider this, in their budgets, to buy bulldozers, which cost about Kshs10 million? These bulldozers ... view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not about shifting blame. It is about consensus and good working relationship with Members of Parliament. That is why we are even willing to call for a Kamukunji so that we can look at how we can complement each other. It is very important to do so. About the confusion, I want to assure this House that for the last one year, we have worked overnight. That is why you can see there is a lot of activity taking place. In the last ten years, there were no Questions being raised in this House ... view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you cannot take a patient from the ICU Department and start giving him ugali the following day. This Ministry has not been funded for a long time and, therefore, most of these dams failed. We require to rehabilitate them. view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we were in an ICU situation. I thought I said that. However, we have come out of that situation. I have indicated that a few years ago, the Ministry was under funded. We did not have donors willing to fund the Ministry. Today, things have changed because of the able leadership and donors are willing to fund us. The Government has put in money. We are working over-night to ensure that these things change. I only require that hon. Members be patient with us. view
• 10 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we will hold workshops and seminars and we will also be asking Members to team up with us so that we can educate our people, just the way the Kenya Power and Lighting Company did on customer awareness. We would like to sensitize our people on the importance of these dams and how to maintain them. For example, I challenge hon. Members to go back to their constituencies and report back to us on how many dams are provided with water troughs and how many of those dams have watering points. Those are the major reasons ... view
• 4 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know I am equally very senior in this position; the view