Philip Lotiolo Ruto Rotino

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will take one minute to educate you on “theft” and “rustling”. Stealing is where you steal one cow and just disappear. But, cattle rustling is where you have about 20 people going to raid thousands of animals; 20, 50 or more animals. Theft happens everywhere. It is a case where we have two young men, who are not educated or not going to school, who raid Turkana or Marakwet and just steal animals. The problem is they kill when they encounter opposition. What do you expect when you go and fight? There is no The ... view
• 25 Jan 2017 in National Assembly: cattle rustling as such; it is just theft - we have reduced it to theft. Members of Parliament have worked hard to bring down cases of cattle rustling through committees which have been formed. But, we still have a long way to go. That is why we request the Government to come in and assist us. We are requesting the Government to give us Kenya Police Reservists (KPRs) because the regular police force is not able to manage. When you hear there are animals being stolen, the police do not intervene. They look for the KPRs because they are locals, ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Bill. I want to support my colleagues in saying that it is very important that we solve conflicts, we do not create conflicts. I hope the Senate has discussed this matter and visited the place to discuss with the locals to ensure that when a decision is made by this House, it is a decision that enjoins everybody. Everybody should know that when you choose a headquarters it is not just for political gain or political support for any person, but what ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues in supporting this very important Motion. I will go ahead and say that this is a very important Motion and it should be developed as a Bill because it is long overdue. We are watching the growth of our youth and unemployment. We are watching a time bomb being developed slowly by slowly. We are not addressing it as a Government. Governments have come and gone and yet, what we hear is just rhetoric about how we will occupy our youth. We should ... view
• 16 Nov 2016 in National Assembly: university, college and county creates an innovation centre for all the youth, even those who have not gone to school. I want to cite an example. In my own community, we used to fight with our neighbours, but we are not fighting now. The young men wanted to get a weapon to fight their enemies and so, they assembled their own gun and they were able to use it to fight. If we had a centre to develop those ideas, we could have young men developing many things. Through this Motion, a Bill should be developed that commits the Government ... view
• 26 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will be very brief. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives, but there is a problem with the Committee. What Hon. Ottichilo is doing is right. The GMOs are very important to this country. It is a problem. The Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives is delaying the report. Why are two Members of the Committee including the Vice- Chair in the proposed select committee? Why did they accept to be in the select committee? This is because they know that there is a problem with the Departmental Committee ... view
• 26 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view
• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to add my voice to what my colleagues have said about this important Bill. This Bill is long overdue. This sector has been neglected for a long time. We have concentrated on primary and secondary education. The ECDE sector is important too because it is the basic training for the children and we should regularise it. The Bill provides that ECDE should be compulsory, which is very good. Some of us from the nomadic communities will tell you that the distance between one nursery school and the other is ... view
• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: I also want to talk about the training of the teachers. Teachers in this sector have not been trained uniformly. There should be uniformity in training, so that we have a uniform system. When children are in Class One, you will definitely know the one who has gone to nursery school and the one who has not. This is very common especially to some of us who come from pastoral areas. We should make sure that chiefs and administrators ensure enforcement of the law in pastoral areas. Otherwise, if we leave it loose and children do not go to school, ... view
• 11 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: schools instead of concentrating on what is their rightful mandate, which is to take care of ECDE centres. They concentrate on primary schools and spend a lot of money on them instead of spending money on nursery schools. view