Robert Monda

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: (b) When will they be reinstated? view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, word going around indicates that we may go on recess by the end of this week. I am yet to be put right by the Chair. I do not know whether we shall be in the House on Tuesday next week, so that the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs would be able to answer the Question. I want to propose that the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs answers this Question on Thursday this week. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Vice-President has indicated that he has an answer in his hands. He only wants time to peruse through and sign the answer. I do not think it will require that long time - beyond Thursday - so that I can go to his house, instead of answering the Question in this House. He can sign the written reply even now. I am ready to interrogate the answer that he has. view
• 17 Feb 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, could the Assistant Minister tell the House why the cases have taken that long and now, in a month's time, we are going to get answers to all of them? Fe bruary 17, 2009 PARLIAMENTAR Y DEBATES view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to support this Motion on the amendment to the Tea Act. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the tea growing areas of this country are also the regions that grow coffee and pyrethrum. Coffee, pyrethrum and tea have been on the downward trend, intimidating the income for the communities from those regions. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kenya is known as a country where agriculture is the backbone of the economy. Agriculture is the foreign exchange earner for this country. It is the cash crops that I have mentioned earlier that make Kenya earn some foreign exchange. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I come from Kisii. Kisii is known for coffee, tea and pyrethrum. I am specifically talking about cash crops. We have others that are foodstuffs but, for now, let me talk about those three. I am also being reminded that there is horticulture, which hon. Members have not talked about. But let me continue. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the pyrethrum industry has collapsed and we are no longer earning anything from it. The coffee from small scale farmers has also collapsed! The Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) is on its way to collapsing, since the farmers in Kisii have also embarked on uprooting tea. In support of the speakers who have spoken before me, I would like to say that the income that is earned from tea is so small that it is not making any returns to the farmers. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want us to look at a situation where tea from large scale farmers is doing very well. We have not seen any large scale farmers being threatened by marginal returns and, therefore, planning to uproot their tea for other crops. The small scale farmers are threatened. I want to associate that with the management of the tea industry. But for small scale farmers, in 2002, we amended the Tea Act and made tea factories become limited companies. Limited companies have independence. We expected them to do everything right from the collection of tea from farmers ... view