Otieno Kajwang

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1111 to 1120 of 1172.

• 1 Aug 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what do we do in those circumstances? view
• 27 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Trade and Industry:- (a) how the Government is marketing Kenya as an attractive industrial and trading destination; and, (b) what steps are being taken to make the cost of power, telephone and transport services competitive so as to make Kenya an investment destination of choice. view
• 27 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Assistant Minister is responding to questions 2434 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES July 27, 2006 as if the Question did ask for these facts and figures. I want to know how the Ministry is trying very hard, if at all, to make power, telephone and transport services competitive, so that Kenya can be an investment destination of choice. If the Assistant Minister cannot show us how Kenya is better placed to invest in than Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania, he is not helping us. He is not answering the Question! Mr. Abdirahman, why do you think Kenya is more ... view
• 27 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are issues here which are very difficult to understand unless you have the background to what is before us. What is before us is a story of sweet sugar. Sugar is sweet. There is a lot of war because sugar is sweet. A Board has been given powers to regulate the importation of sugar because we need to import some sugar. I do not have the correct figures, but I think we need to import about 200,000 tonnes of table and industrial sugar. There is a general agreement within COMESA that we import that ... view
• 27 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support this Report with the amendment that Part Two goes. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Education:- (a) if he is aware that certain Headteachers of secondary schools in cahoots with Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) and District Education Boards (DEBs) conspired to beat the Ministry's guidelines on fees by:- (i) publishing two fee structures, one for public consumption and the other between the parent and the school administration; (ii) introducing numerous projects charged annually outside the prescribed fees; (b) if he is further aware that this is a conspiracy of the rich against the poor; and, (c) what steps the Government is taking to contain this mischief. view
• 19 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the chance to address this Motion as it is, although there is an amendment that the Minister wants to bring. When the NARC Government took over in 2002, our promise was to create 500,000 units of houses per year. The only thing we did not tell this country is how we would implement it. I remember that the National Housing Corporation, which has the mandate that this Motion seeks to implement, came up with a very revolutionary idea . The revolutionary idea was that it would float housing bonds worth ... view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I listened to Capt. Nakitare moving the Motion, I was very keen to hear what dangers are caused by Genetically Modified (GM) foods to human beings. I wanted to know what we are likely to suffer from health-wise. I also wanted to hear what environmental damage GM foods could bring to our country. If he could persuade us that we are likely to get cancer from GM foods, grow obese or damage our environment to the extent that our lungs could be affected, maybe, I could have listened. But if those things have not been ... view
• 12 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not want to talk much on this subject, but I thought that the Ministry of Agriculture could have, by now, been supporting the production of GM foods. I know of a lady who is a scientist and is producing GM potatoes. I think she wants to multiply the potato seed so that Nairobi could be supplied with sufficient potatoes produced cheaply, so that we could buy chips cheaply. But instead of that, the Government is not putting aside any money to support research. So, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) is working with ... view
• 5 Jul 2006 in National Assembly: , asked the Minister for Information and Communications:- (a) what is delaying the commissioning of a third mobile phone provider; (b) what vested interests have made the commissioning of a third provider a pipe- dream; and, (c) whether he is aware that the opening up of this sector to competition would reduce the cost of telephone calls and create employment. view