Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1301 to 1310 of 1845.

• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: I wish to request the Minister for Agriculture, and the Kenya Sugar Board (KSB), to look into that issue. That is in my constituency and farmers there are affected. In fact, even Muhoroni Sugar Company (MSC) has some arrears for farmers, but Chemelil is worse, because it has been keeping money for farmers for the last eight months, yet it is milling, selling sugar and paying employees and other people. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: The Minister for Agriculture should tell us the truth. The sugar industry should not be politicised in the way it was done during the Moi time. During that time, farmers and other stakeholders were not paid. I think what they are trying to do is the same thing that Moi did. We shall not accept it. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this country must not be forgiven for importing food. Why should we subsidise imported food? Why can we not subsidise production of food in this country? Good governments subsidise production of their own food. When we subsidise importation of food, we are actually subsidising the production of food in those other countries. Why should we do that? view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have got the brains. This country has some of the best agriculture schools. We have a very good agriculture school in the University of Nairobi. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: The graduates who come out of Egerton University, Moi University and Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology are the best in the area of agriculture. Some of them are now working in other countries. We are not using them to help this country simply because we do not want to do things right. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, irrigation is the way to go today. All the major irrigation projects that we have in this country, namely, Ahero Irrigation Scheme, West Kano Irrigation Scheme, Bunyala Irrigation Scheme and Mwea Irrigation Scheme, were implemented by Jomo Kenyatta. What did Moi do? He did not leave behind any major irrigation project. We had the NARC Government. We now have the Grand Coalition Government. The Grand Coalition Government should make a difference by doing similar things as Jomo Kenyatta. Jomo Kenyatta left behind major irrigation projects for this country. view
• 24 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: We have a lot of rice which will be harvested from my constituency. Irrigation is a very simple technology. It was started by the Egyptians and people in the Arab world a long time ago. Irrigation is not a modern technology. It is a technology that has been with us for several centuries. All we need to Fe bruary 24, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (a) The Government has not delayed promotion of the over 7,000 PI A-level teachers. It should be noted that between 2003 and 2004, the Government, through the Teachers Service Commission (TSC), promoted most of the PI A-level teachers who had the required qualifications to AT IV in accordance with the scheme of service in force. These teachers were among the 78,204 primary school teachers promoted at that time. view
• 19 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the existing scheme of service for non-graduate teachers provides for upward mobility of the trained P1 A-level teachers upon undergoing the Teachers Proficiency Course (TPC). Promotion, therefore, depends on a teacher's initiative. So far, 12,600 teachers have been promoted under TPC; many among them being Trained PI A-level Teachers. view