Njeru Ndwiga

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• 18 May 2022 in Senate: agency which is appointed by the farmer. This way, the farmer will be guaranteed that the proceeds they will get from their coffee is the actual they are entitled to. Currently, that is not the case. Today, a farmer will take their coffee to a miller who will instruct the farmer that they have many bags of AA or AB or PB and the miller will auction the coffee. The same marketing agent is the agent of the buyer. That is what has killed coffee farming in this country and driven the farmers out of their coffee farming. You will ... view
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• 18 May 2022 in Senate: Both the Senate and the National Assembly passed those regulations and they are in force. You get surprised when the Cabinet Secretary (CS) in the same Government now wants to go through the backdoor to remove those regulations. It is inconceivable. That is why we have so many problems in this Government. When you have a government whose left hand does not know what the right hand is doing, please do not call that a government that knows where it is going. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, although I am as the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, ... view
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• 18 May 2022 in Senate: I do not want to bore the House with the number of amendments we are rejecting, because we either accept all of them or reject all of them. I do hope that in the next one week, both this House and the National Assembly will find wisdom to establish a Mediation Committee to look at the amendments which are acceptable and the amendments which are not acceptable. I sincerely do hope that this Bill will see the light of day. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for those of us who pray, I hope we pray for the Government to begin to ... view
• 18 May 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have two Members from my Committee who are here. One has just walked in. The other one was here and was listening. Sen. Madzayo, could you kindly second? view
• 18 May 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to inform my colleague that it is true. Out of the regulations we passed here, the first beneficiary of direct coffee sales was Kipkelion Coffee Co-operative Union and they took advantage of that. For them to get permission to export their coffee, after they found their own market, good beans and we introduced the buyers to them, the Ministry has been putting barriers to prevent them from getting direct licences to export their coffee to wherever they want. That is why they want to reverse these things. Kipkelion Coffee Co-operative Union exported seven containers ... view
• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join my colleagues in congratulating Sen. Khaniri for bringing this very important Statement to this House. Kenya prides itself as an agricultural country. However, it is very sad that we call ourselves an agricultural country, but do not put in place measures to support that objective. At the moment, on matters concerning weather, we rely on information from other countries. Thank God the world is what it is today. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when our own weather department tells us that we are going to have more than average rainfall, most of the time, you ... view
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• 31 Mar 2022 in Senate: Even if you were to compensate that farmer after they have planted, then the consumer price of that product will be expensive. Therefore, this country will be sinking in aberrance of inflation if we do not have proper plans. I am happy that Sen. Khaniri has brought this issue here. Let us examine whether our meteorological department can give us forecasts that can help us to plan. They should be able to tell us when we will have rains and drought, so that the country can plan. If you do not have that, then you cannot call yourself a country. ... view