Owen Yaa Baya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to contribute to the Motion on the BPS and say that as this country moves forward with the kind of economy that has been battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Government needs to start reviewing its policy under expenditure. We have a huge deficit within the budget that is being proposed. Even when we have such deficit, we have key sectors within the BPS that are not adequately funded, for example, the land sector which is an area that I will always talk about. The Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: taxing paying bracket. We need to empower everybody. This BPS does not do that. It needs to move to ensure that every Kenyan has an opportunity to earn a living and in the process pay tax. When he pays that tax, we have lesser borrowing by this Government. That notwithstanding, there are many sectors that have been underfunded, but there are other sectors that have huge budgets. For example, the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) is getting a lot of money, but nobody is thinking about how to develop Mombasa the same way we are developing Nairobi. We are going to ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to use this opportunity to support this Bill. It is very timely because of how drugs have ravaged the area that I come from. I come from a constituency at the coast that has the longest shoreline. It has areas of ports in which drugs can come in. My constituency starts from Mayungu, closer to Malindi and goes all the way up to Shariani. This is an open area in which drugs come in. This is information that is known. Takawi, Shariani, Watamu, Mayungu and Mida are known ports of entry for ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: officers and enforcement officers in the coast that have become billionaires not because of anything but because they protect the drug rings in that area. The result of this is that we have youths whose dreams have been shattered and broken; youths who know nothing; when they wake up in the morning the only thing that can give them energy like oxygen to go for the whole day, is an injection or sniff of something. This enables them stay alive, not that they will do anything useful in the day. If you go to Kilifi, you will find a place ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Today we have the Coast Guards. I thought the Coast Guards would have led to a reduction of drug trafficking in this country. I want to believe that the Coast Guards have been compromised because this is money business, therefore, the Coast Guards being there are not helping it. More drugs are coming in even now that we have the Coast Guards. I know this Committee has done a commendable job but there is also the committee that is in charge of administration. I would like to ask this Committee to look at how to strengthen the Coast Guards so ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Somebody who understands this business once told me, that the value of drugs increases when they land here in Kenya. They come from Colombia, brought through the sea, into this country, repackaged and then taken to Italy. The value becomes higher when it passes here and goes to the other side. The Tourism Police Unit knows the houses and the hotels which these drugs go to, but they do nothing about it. So, I want to commend the Committee for what it has done to ensure that the law enforcement officers are held into account. I also want to commend ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Unfortunately, like I have said, it is moving from the ocean and the beaches deeper into the interior. You will find somebody in the interior injecting him because he got drugs from these places. On the law on extradition, you see, these drugs have not been manufactured in this country. Heroin and cocaine is never a produce of Kenya. It is a produce of another country. People in this country have connections with other countries. That is how they are able to bring in drugs into this country. We need to enforce this law. If somebody is a supplier and ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: I am being told that they are already here. If we do not take this opportunity to stop drug trafficking, this country will be destroyed. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I would like to ask Question No. 050/2021 on behalf of the Member for Magarini to the Cabinet Secretary for Lands and Physical Planning: (i) Could the CS explain why most land adjudication exercises carried out in Magarini Constituency disadvantage the local residents by either displacing them or denying them their rightful parcels of land? (ii) When will the Ministry undertake an audit of the adjudication exercise of Chakama Phase I and Phase II in Chakama Location in Magarini Constituency, with a view to ascertaining that it was fair and free of irregularities? view