Dr. Patrick Mweu Musimba

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this BPS. I concur with the Budget and Appropriations Committee. When you look at each point that they have analysed in the Report, there is a major indictment on the BPS. When you pick any underlining, it is just caution. They are cautioning that this is not reflective of the current situation and whether Kenya will continue being a growing concern, if it continues in this trajectory. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As much as we have raised issues about figures, it is important to talk about hope for this nation. A hope carried through within the confines of three pillars which are the economy, politics and social status as a nation. At the heart of being Kenyan, it is a heart of competitiveness and productivity. This BPS in its entirety is not addressing us as per Article 95 of the Constitution. We, as Members of Parliament, have a responsibility to all our constituents the way we reflect and represent their aspirations on a day to day basis. What do Kenyans aspire ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 51 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We have to look at our fundamentals, the things which at Independence we read in our geography that we were a powerhouse in the arena of growth of wheat and in livestock production. Today, the PBS does not go to the heart of returning us to our competitiveness. We want to know the population of our livestock. Today, we import livestock from Ethiopia and Tanzania. We do not hear the incentives towards livestock owners within Maasailand, Garissa and Wajir. How are we going to increase livestock populations? How are we going to have bigger Artificial Insemination (AI) programmes which are ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We talked about being a tourist destination, but how much are we improving our tourism product? Are we amplifying the fact that we are an unmatched safari and beach destination? Our coastline is second to none in the world. We have temperate waters and a coral coastline. We must speak to economic hope by saying that the BPS has to address every single constituency in Kenya and see, for instance, how Fafi or Kibwezi West constituencies are affected. How does it encourage growth across the country? We come from an area where there is a lot of human-wildlife conflict going ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: If we cannot address our fundamentals of the cost of living, then what growth are we dreaming about when there are no savings which are being expected to be grown by the individuals? We need to mobilise 50 million Kenyans, including children, to be in an environment where we are growing our GDP in terms of how we consume and how we mobilise the savings for onward distribution to our SMEs. view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Let us look at our cottage industries. Since the 1980s when we were boasting about starting Jua Kali sheds, the cottage industries have not moved forward. We have now got to a point where… The same tin trunk I was bought for by my parents to go to high school has not improved. It is still the same tin trunk that is being sold to children today in 2019. We are not investing in those people. We are not growing them. Along Ngong Road, they make beautiful furniture. But how can we standardise that? Those are the areas we can ... view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: 52 Thursday, 28th February 2019(P) view
• 28 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: country that exports furniture. Certainly the Great Lakes Region has 100 million people. The consumption habits are the same. But are we better? We had programmes like the last mile connectivity and rural electrification. They were about growing cottage industries. We have a very developed human capital base in Kenya - of people who are educated. We have put enormous sums of money into the education sector and we continue to make that investment. But the investment must actualise and this is where, in the last regime, we had business process outsourcing where the thinking was how to transform Kenya ... view