Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, even the amendment is seeking a reversal of transfer of health services from the county governments back to the national Government. My strong belief is that since the services were taken to the counties, there has been more efficiency than when those services were with the national Government. I tend to think that the national Government is too big to be efficient. It is quite inefficient in many ways. I believe that returning health services to the national Government will not be in the best interests of our people. I believe that this proposal is more motivated by ... view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am trying to deal with the whole matter at once. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I wish to speak to the whole Report later on. In fact, I take this amendment to be of no consequence to my stand. So, I oppose the amendment. Thank you. view
• 26 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairlady, I appeared before the Budget and Appropriations Committee where I had requested that they reallocate from the Kshs38 billion in the National Treasury, Kshs10 billion for recruitment of teachers by the Teachers Service Commission (TSC). I am surprised that they did not capture that in the amendments, yet they captured the one of the National Treasury. I appeared together with the Cabinet Secretary in charge of the National Treasury before that Committee. I am really surprised because it is a major issue. The shortage of teachers is too critical. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I have heard some are complaining that they were here at 2.30 p.m. So was I and my card has been on from that time up to now. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: There was one thing which the Leader of the Minority Party mentioned; it was that retired President Moi did some roads and some people were shouting that he did not do any roads. The road which is in Bomet, Sotik-Bomet-Narok Road, was done by retired President Moi. Just because retired President Kibaki did the Thika Super Highway, do not pretend roads were done all over this country. He only did in specific areas of this country; retired President Moi was able to do roads in many areas of this country. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wanted to make that clarification. I was highly irritated by that shouting that retired President Moi did not do any roads in this country. You can count buildings in this city; Times Towers, the tallest was done by retired President. You go to the best Stadium we have in this country, Moi International Stadium, Kasarani. It should be clarified. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: On the issue of roads, I am very happy with this Budget; I am supporting it because we are allocating about Kshs.100 billion to roads. This is because they are a key thing in this country and without them we may not develop and we need lots of resources to be allocated to them. I am hopeful that roads which are going to be constructed will cover the whole country; they will not be in specific regions. I am hopeful that we are going to get tarmacked roads in Bomet Central and Bomet County because we do need them. We ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: On Agriculture, I am happy that about Kshs.21 billion, has been allocated. This is because we need the Ministry of Agriculture to take care of our food. Without food, we will not do well as a country. There are subsectors in agriculture like tea, which need to be assisted. Currently this is one of the crops which are highly taxed, especially the ad valorem tax, which is not taxed on other cash crops. I would wish that in this Appropriation Bill, we take care of the tea subsector by ensuring that we allocate some funds to take care of it. ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: compensation in agriculture. I know various sectors have been compensated for suffering calamities; but maize farmers in Bomet county have never been compensated. There is a disease which has actually made maize farming nearly impossible, and we are getting misleading information from the agriculture officials. They direct us to buy hybrid seeds from Kenya Seed Company, as these are the right seeds to be planted as they cannot be affected by this maize disease. But still, the disease has really attacked all our maize plantations, and our farmers are not harvesting any maize. A compensation kitty for farmers needs to ... view