Prof. Prof. Olweny

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1591 to 1600 of 1845.

• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Ministry's Vote. Among the duties that the Ministry for Water and Irrigation has in this country is food security through irrigation. That has been done. A lot of good work has been done, including the reviving of a number of irrigation projects in this country. We appreciate and thank the Ministry for that work. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have one problem with the irrigation scheme in Nyando District. I thank the Government for the good work of reviving the Ahero and West Kano ... view
• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if the colleagues of the Minister could allow him to listen to me! view
• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want your attention! I want your support! Could you protect the Minister so that he could listen to me very well? view
• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I simply wanted to draw the Minister's attention to the fact that, Ahero and West Kano irrigation schemes are not performing today because the Government allowed thugs in form of people owning microfinance institutions to go there. Those are actually politicians. They ran out of money and now, nobody can sponsor the farmers' activities. The microfinance institutions had an arrangement of giving farmers small loans 3322 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES August 21, 2007 that they could repay after they have harvested. We have problems at Ahero and West Kano irrigation schemes. The Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) is ... view
• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, how many minutes? I have just talked for a minute! view
• 21 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to just make one more point. The floods control in Nyando District has been going on. In the last financial year, there was money set aside for floods control, as we have it in this financial year. There was a spillway that was supposed to be done on Nyando River, which is within my constituency at a village called Obiayo. Nothing has been done so far. I appeal to the officers concerned! Whenever there are some little rains, Nyando River overflows its banks at that point. We have all the water in schools, ... view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Water and Irrigation:- (a) whether he is aware that the water level of Lake Victoria has gone down substantially in recent times; (b) the extent to which the level of the lake has reduced; and, (c) what factors have caused the reduction. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Lake Victoria is one of those major components of the Nile Basin. Several millions of people depend on it, that is, from Tanzania in the south, all the way to Egypt in the north. Now, when the Minister talks about the issue of over-abstraction, it means that someone is responsible for this. Who is responsible for the over-abstraction and what is being done about it? What are the riparian countries doing about this over-abstraction? view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am still back to the issue of over-abstraction, and I am going to Uganda. It is said that Ugandans have erected an extra dam, or a hydroelectric facility, which extracts more water from the Lake than the main Owen Falls facility. If they have also increased water downflow more than the Egyptians and Sudanese need, what are riparian countries, in collaboration with Ugandans, doing about this facility that seems to have caused the main reduction of water levels in Lake Victoria? view
• 7 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: asked the Minister for Local Government:- (a) how much cess Muhoroni Town Council has collected from sugar-cane farmers within the last four years; and, (b) what projects the Town Council has undertaken with the money collected. view