Ndiritu Muriithi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 472.

• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there was a huge debate about the key issues surrounding job creation. How are we going to create jobs for millions and millions of jobless young Kenyans? I am particularly pleased with Members on the whole debate about what political parties ought to be in this day and age in Kenya, and that political parties surely must be ideologically-based. view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to move. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand to support. I am pleased that many of my colleagues are supporting. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of devolution has been at the heart of political and economic debate in this country. When regions or counties or districts or communities talk about being marginalized, it is about resource allocation. It is about the feeling of exclusion. Therefore, there can be no bigger question of our time than resolving and laying the foundation for devolution. In my view, the new architecture of Kenya, the new Constitution will stand or fail on the basis of devolution. Devolution, even before the independence of this country, has been at the heart of the political debate ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Public Finance Management Bill, again, speaks to the same question. How are resources used? How are they divided between different places? How do we ensure that moving forward, no Kenyan ever feels that they are excluded? No Kenyan ever feels that they are less Kenyan than others? As we do so, as we look at these critical pieces of legislation, we must remember what the reason is that for over 20, 30 years, this country had been looking for fundamental reforms; and why this country had been looking for a new Constitution. I think that ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, nearly ten million people in this country are either openly unemployed or under-employed. It is time for us to move the political debate and political questions as to how we are creating jobs. How do we create jobs for those people? How will we ensure that every year, we move away from locking 500,000children of 13 and 14 years out of the economic system by telling them that they have failed Standard VIII? The young people at the age of 14, what are they expected to do? What meaningful skill or what meaningful livelihood can they ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have over a thousand youth polytechnics in this country. Most of them are just empty shells. The question of our time, surely, must be: How we are going to put resources into those institutions? So, I believe it is fair, right and proper for this House not only to look at extending time, but also, therefore, afford ourselves the opportunity to really look at these pieces of legislation and to ensure that we are setting up the best foundation for the future of this country. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, today, because we still have duties on grains that were designed in colonial times, food is expensive. I have heard my colleague, the hon. Minister for Finance quipping frustrations and asking: “Why are we importing eggs?” We were importing eggs because the raw materials that go into the production of feeds that feed the chicken that produce the eggs are expensive. They are expensive because we have colonial duties designed during the time of Lord Delamere; and that have no basis in modern social economic structure of this country. These are the questions of our times. ... view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I stand to oppose. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the Micro-finance Act already provides the mechanism for you to have a bank in a town, for you to have a bank that covers a county or a region, in fact, with far lower amount of capital. So, that proposal is already sorted out. view