Owen Yaa Baya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: to get treatment. This will ensure that we reduce the burden of cancer in this country. Another issue which must be looked at is cost. Today, cancer treatment and diagnosis is prohibitive in this country. You realise that if you want get screened or treated, you must have a lot of money, and therefore, many patients from poor backgrounds succumb to this disease. I can see the light is on. Just like the mover of the Motion was added some minutes, I am also requesting to be added some more time to allow me to finish on the various issues. ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having spoken on the many issues, I beg to second this Motion. I urge my fellow Members to pass it. The mover should bring a Bill as soon as possible, so that, cancer is declared a national disaster and special funds are set aside to assist Kenyans suffering from this pandemic. view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. Probably, this is one of the most important pieces of legislation that this Parliament is going to be required to pass. It brings a new dawn in food security issues in this country. If you look at the President’s Big Four Agenda, you will realize that one of them is food security. This country has failed to deliver food security on the basis of rain-fed agriculture. Therefore, it is important that we move away from rain-fed agriculture to irrigation. In this country, we ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: great letdown in terms of inefficiencies and ineffectiveness in doing its job. This is because for the many years that it has existed, we have seen the collapse of the many irrigation schemes that we used to learn about when we were young. The NIB has presided over the death of many irrigation schemes. A few irrigation schemes come to mind, for example, the Tana and Hola Irrigation Scheme that fed the coastal region for so many years. It has collapsed under the watch of NIB. Therefore, I just hope that it is not the case of a different forest, ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I think he has a problem with his machine. view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: What I was saying is that during the implementation of the Galana Kulalu Irrigation Scheme, county governments were not involved. Probably, the Government just earmarked the land and said it was going to start an irrigation scheme. The Government forgot that it was dealing with community land. The people of Tana River and Kilifi had begged the Government for many years to intervene in terms of agriculture. The people were ready for discussions about land, but the Government ignored them and went ahead with the implementation of the scheme, which became a big failure. Today, the people of Tana River ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: county boards or irrigation units within the county governments that the National Irrigation Development Authority will have to consult. We hope that the problems the Galana Kulalu Irrigation Scheme exposed will be solved by this law. It also very important to understand one thing. For many years, Kilifi County has had famine and drought. People have to rely on food that is distributed by the Government. We hope that with the passage of this Bill, that trend will stop. We cannot have two huge rivers flowing in the county and yet, food cannot be produced. All the water runs into ... view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I stand to oppose this Bill. view
• 20 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Nairobi metropolis is fed from the coastal city. If the transport system of the coastal city is not working, you will simply have the same problems. If we do not unblock the transport at the Coast where all goods and everything else comes through, the GDP of Nairobi will not grow. If you want to set up the Nairobi Metropolitan Area Transport Authority and forget about one for Mombasa, then you will actually have a problem because all the goods and items that comes from the coastal region end up here in the city. If you cannot pass Mariakani with ... view