Samuel Mathenge Ndiritu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Therefore, your humble petitioners pray that the National Assembly, through the Departmental Committee on Health, addresses the concerns of the petitioners and expedites legislation to cater for the said prayers. Hon. Speaker, your petitioners will ever pray. view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. First of all, it is viewed that it is only female MCAs who are to be nominated. It is a bit unfortunate to my male colleagues and even to some women who have insinuated that it is only women who are going to be nominated. In some cases, and the best example is my constituency, out of five wards, we have three elected female MCAs and two elected male MCAs. This means that, in our case, if we were to nominate, they would have ... view
• 6 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: They are also supposed to push for issues that women may understand more that affect the society. With those few remarks, I would only like to remind all of us that it is not always that women are the ones that are endangered. In my constituency, I only come in to balance the equation because they are three against two. I have to come in as a Member of Parliament, so that we are three-three. I support. view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also support this very important Bill. This is an addition or a better version of the Export Processing Zones (EPZs) where we only manufactured for export but, here we have a business where we can import and export. This is what has made the economic tigers; the countries we were at par with at Independence that are now far away ahead of us. It is a Bill if properly implemented we are going to have Vision 2030 become Vision 2020. view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: There is one important factor that we have to look at as much as we talk about developing our industries and businesses especially manufacturing where we need a lot of technical expertise. Labour, as a major factor of production, has to be factored when we think of manufacturing and development in terms of moving away from importing goods that are already manufactured. We have been exporting all our labour to China and other places. When we buy everything from China or wherever, it means that we have exported all our labour. I am talking about the middle level labour, namely, ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Some few weeks ago, it was reported in the newspapers that the institutes of technology and colleges that offer technical courses were under-subscribed. This means that nobody is now interested in joining those colleges. We have technicians who are trained at Diploma and Higher Diploma and are being referred to as quacks. The engineers’ body and such bodies do not recognise them. The system in Kenya now recognises just the degrees and many people are opting to go the easy way. Those who attain Mean Grade of C+ (plus) and B- (minus) who do not get admission to university prefer ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: On ownership, I have looked at what one needs to run a business. You should have a company incorporated in Kenya and the necessary capital. You need to own or lease land in specific areas, but we are not talking about shareholding of anybody who wants to invest. In places like Dubai, I do not think there is anybody who establishes a business without a local ownership. We do not want the people who are coming in to exploit our people and then walk away with all our resources. In terms of infrastructure, in Clause 32 of the Bill, there ... view
• 5 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: So, this is a very major step forward in terms of making people produce here rather than export their ideas and designs for them to be done in China or such other places and then import them here. This is a very important Bill if it is going to be implemented in the way the vision has been set. With those few remarks, I would like to say that this is a very progressive Bill. We know that maybe there are cartels that might have already owned land that is going to be declared. We hope it will be spread ... view