Robert Mbui

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• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, if the situation is not mitigated, many budding talents in public primary schools may fail to blossom for lack of the opportunity to go beyond school level; The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, efforts to have the Ministry of Education review its capitation on co- curricular activities upwards or approving supplementary levies to be charged by schools have not yielded satisfactory action, and; view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: THAT, the matters presented in this Petition are not pending before any tribunal, court of law or independent body. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Therefore, your humble Petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Education and Research: (i) Recommends the Ministry of Education to consider upscaling Government capitation for co-curricular activities in primary schools from the Kshs76 currently provided to Kshs150 per pupil or more with a view to avail sufficient activity fees at school level; (ii) Causes the Ministry of Education to initiate an audit of the cost of co- curricular activities per pupil at school level with a view to recommending a reasonable capitation for co-curricular activities in subsequent sporting years; (iii) Recommends that share of the said ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill which seeks to provide a legal framework for the development and regulation of a warehouse receipt system for agricultural commodities. Agriculture is very important in Kenya because, generally, we are an agricultural economy. In fact, just by Googling, I noticed that agriculture is the largest contributor to our GDP; that half of Kenyan farmers do subsistence farming and the other half do it for commercial purposes; and that we are a leading producer of coffee and tea in the world. But Kenyan farmers are ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: On the issue of marketing, it is important. When you put commodities together, it helps the farmers to market. You cannot market your green grams alone. But when you put them together in a warehouse, it becomes easier because you are trading together with others and the idea of economies of scale kicks in. This is excellent. In fact, it will be able to create a perfect situation for farmers, where they grow crops, take them to the warehouses, get their receipts which they can trade with and they can access that product in whatever way that this Bill allows. ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The Principal Secretary (PS) for Agriculture and Irrigation will either be there or have a representative, so are the PS for Finance and the PS for Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Two persons from the Council of Governors (CoG) is fair because one will be from either gender. But then again we have the Director General of Agriculture, Food and Fisheries Authority - that is only one gender. Then we have a person from the financial sector, a person representing farmers as I mentioned, a person from the Eastern Africa Grain Council and one person from the consumer federation. What ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The third issue that I have noticed is that when the warehouse receipts are traded, it means that the farmer will deposit his produce at the warehouse and will be given a receipt either in hard copy or in electronic form. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: There is important information that will be on that receipt about the ownership and quality because different agricultural commodities have different qualities. It will have the quantity but if we are going to have this in hard copy, then chances of manipulation, forgery and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: exploitation become high. I would have proposed that if we want to move this country and we are coming up with systems that are developed, why do we not just encourage the use of the electronic form? If we do so, identification of ownership becomes biometric and we ensure that whatever we put in the systems cannot be manipulated easily. It is easier to manipulate physical documents than it is to manipulate electronic ones, other than in the last general elections. I think it is important that we address these issues so that by the time we pass this Bill, ... view