Hon Ruth W Mwaniki

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: jobs through manufacturing. If you look at the example we were following when we were crafting the Vision 2030 under the Kibaki administration, and I was part of that, we copied Malaysia. Malaysia had an organic growth. You do not expect to start manufacturing from the air. You start manufacturing from what you already have. We have agricultural products. We need to process them and extend their shelf life, so that we can export, particularly in intra-Africa trade given the parameters under the free trade arrangement. That is what we need to fix. We have fixed the trade area. We ... view
• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have a coat on and whatever is underneath should not be my sister’s concern. I am in pink and Jubilee’s colour is red. view
• 30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we saw a new uniform here the other day and I thought this is just a simple Jubilee shirt. With a lot of respect, I beg to leave. view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: I vote yes. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. First of all, I want to appreciate the Chair because he called all of us for a meeting. The paper he is presenting was as a result of an effort by all the Members that we joined him and his committee to be able to harmonise the very many amendments that had been brought before this House. What he is trying to explain is the operating word “shall”. He is saying if you have a dispute, you have an option to go to the board or elsewhere. You cannot tie people who have a ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving this opportunity to support the Report of the Committee that was looking into the questions raised by Hon. Eseli on the Coffee Research Institute. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We know the important role agriculture plays in the economic development of our country. In the past, there was a lot of emphasis on the key enablers like roads, energy and ICT development. A lot of money has been appropriated by the National Assembly to take care of those sectors, but we keep on crying that ground mambo ni different, pesa haifiki mashinani. We know that people in rural areas are reliant on agriculture, mainly tea, coffee and livestock, but a lot of resources do not go into those very areas where we know our people are. The Annual World ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: The little money that I have seen being recommended by the Committee will help wake up that giant. I am sure they would wake up because farmers pay a little for the seedlings that the Institute sells. If we leave it like that, say perhaps there are other resources that can go elsewhere we would not promote our farmers in Western Kenya. I remember I went to Kiminini 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
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Constituency to a large estate owned by the late Khalwenge family. That was a very wealthy and powerful family in Kitale, but now the farm is left to waste. So, until we look at the institutional reforms that will support the growth of such sectors like tea and coffee, then we do not expect to cheat ourselves that kwa ground mambo hayatakuwa different . We will keep on talking about creating jobs. The white-collar jobs are not easy to create. In any case, they have to be created on a platform of other sectors like manufacturing, agriculture and agro-processing. If ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: We cannot say day-in-day-out that we want to grow our economy, but we do not feed the money into the sectors that support the people that we represent here, one of it being coffee. I hope even as we support the reviving of the CRI by empowering it, we will also get the Committee to look at other areas that focus on production. Many of the reports that come here are generated by coffee traders and middlemen, but the farmers’ voice has not been properly heard. We need the Committee to bring forward the voice of the coffee farmer in ... view