Raphael Lakalei Letimalo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Clause 5 (h) talks about the creation of disease-free zones. You know that one major enemy of livestock is diseases. It really affects livestock. But with proper coordination, we can have disease-free zones so that once animals are bought and before they are marketed or slaughtered at a given facility, then they can be kept at a zone that can be inspected by livestock inspectors and veterinary officers just to ensure that they are free of any disease before they are disposed. On research institutions, the Chairman talked about--- view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank you for being understanding and using your discretion to reduce the time to enable us to contribute. Given that I have three minutes, I just want to say that I support the Bill. Talking about the Equalisation Fund, up to date, this Fund has not been utilised. The framers of our Constitution had reasons to include hat clause. Sessional Paper No.10 of 1965 is what created unequal development in Kenya. This Constitution was trying to bring the counties that are not well developed at par with others. We ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: There are polytechnics that were started by the NG-CDF and some of them have been left at the same state they were when it was assumed they will be taken over by county governments. We would like to appeal to them to complete those polytechnics because they will give the youth skills and create employment for them. Lastly, yesterday we debated a Motion on Persuasive Voter Registration although some of us did not get time to speak on it. We are talking about registration of voters which is a very critical on-going exercise. Those of us from Arid and Semi-Arid ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you so much Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I also want to thank my colleague, Hon. Njomo, for giving me an opportunity to contribute. I support the Motion. Since this is donated time, I just want to go straight to the point. I really want to commend IEBC officials, the National Registration Bureau (NBS) and other stakeholders for mobilizing people for the ongoing voter registration exercise, particularly for going to the market places and even using voter educators to do civic education. The poor turnout for voter registration is attributed to lack of national IDs. ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak to this Motion. I support the Motion, but with a heavy heart due to the acts of commission and omission against the people of Samburu East through the military operations. However, I believe the impunity and injustices we have witnessed can be addressed only through a formal Defence Co-operation Agreement. That is why I support it. To start on a positive note, the British Government, through the British military officers who are operating in Samburu East, has contributed to development projects in my constituency. They have created ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: Even though they have contributed a lot in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), we still have some concerns. In 1977, the Government of Kenya set aside some land for military training. The Commissioner of Lands, vide Kenya Gazette Notice No. 3210 of 31st October 1977, set aside 83,327 acres for military training. But one major problem when it comes to issues of land is that even though there is land that has been set aside and gazetted for military training, both KDF and the British Army have encroached into community land. That is one of our major concerns. They go beyond ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: that can be given to the locals. Archars Post is a growing trading centre. So, it is important that certain contracts are given to the local people to enhance co-operation and for the people to see that they are benefitting from our British friends. Otherwise, I support. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Before I make my comments, I think it is important to bring to the attention of the Chair that there is a problem with the system. We log in and the system fails. view
• 3 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will take the advice. I want to support this Bill. I am in support of the spirit of competition among schools. However, I am concerned about one thing. There are schools in some regions that continuously perform poorly in national examinations. I think it is important for the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and the relevant Committee of this House to carry out investigations and find out why there is this poor performance of schools. One of the most important things that the Government should do is to facilitate officials in the ... view