Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1461 to 1470 of 2249.

• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to answer. The process of upgrading a health centre to a sub-district hospital takes four steps as follows: one, a health centre reaches the specified threshold of a catchment population of 100,000 people as set out in the norms and standards of the health sector. Two, a health centre acquires the requisite infrastructure as per the norms and standards of the health sector. Three, the District Development Committee passes a resolution that the health centre be upgraded to a sub-district hospital and forwards the minutes to my Ministry through the Ministry of Public Health and ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member is right. In fact, Vihiga District has a population of 114,000 people, and this is above the 100,000 people that is required by the norms and standards. When you look at the three health centres he is talking about, they are located in a very mountainous area, as my neighbour there knows. My Ministry is quite prepared to upgrade one of them to a sub-district hospital, because, as he says, Inzaro Health Centre, for example, has facilities that can make it easily upgradable to a sub-district hospital and so is Vihiga Health Centre. All ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said in this august House before that our policy is to make sure that every constituency has at least a sub-district hospital. Once the various DDCs submit to us the recommendations as I have read, we are very much prepared to upgrade the relevant health centres to sub-district hospitals. There are certain districts where because of geography, distances and so on, they may have a district hospital and even one or two sub-district hospitals. We are prepared to look into those cases because we want people to have easy access to health facilities. We want ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support this Motion. view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: I was listening to my friend, Mr. Ethuro, and I would like to support his points of view, especially with regard to infrastructure. You realize that when the railroad is built from Lamu to Sudan and we also have a refinery in Lamu through which the Southern Sudan will be exporting its oil wealth, this will be a tremendous boost to the economies of the two countries. Indeed, the opening up of the northern part of Kenya will begin. That is a potential bread basket for this country. If you have travelled to northern Kenya, you will realize that the ... view
• 9 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, at the moment, we have a Geothermal Authority which is exploiting out geothermal natural resources. If we combine that with solar power, we will realize that we have a very good source of energy that will reduce the emission of green house gases that the whole world is currently against. In certain parts of this country - and I am glad that the experiment has already been initiated as far as this is concerned. We have a very high potential for wind energy power in the northern part of Kenya. The old model of development that ... view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for rescuing me. I rise to support this Sessional Paper No.3 of 2009 on the National Land Policy. This Paper could not have come at a better moment. It has come at a time when this nation is reviewing its Constitution. It is moving from the first to the second Republic. view
• 3 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: The first Republic was the post-colonial Republic that was handed over to us by the colonialists. We now want to have a homegrown Constitution which will deal with our indigenous problems and set a lasting framework for social, political and economic relations in this country. In that regard, land becomes very important. Land, as a factor of production; land as a means of production; land as an important force in a market economy and transiting from pre-capitalist economy to a capitalist economy. In this regard, you will realise that one of the mischiefs that this Policy is trying to deal ... view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to apologise to the House for coming late. That is mainly because I do not have an Assistant Minister. My Assistant Minister of yesterday is sitting over there. view
• 2 Dec 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to apologise and borrow from hon. Odhiambo’s apology that I also was caught up in a traffic jam. view