Ukur Yattani

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1 to 10 of 32.

• 11 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to conclude the Minister's contribution. view
• 11 Oct 2007 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Hon. Members may wish to know that I shall be introducing some amendments at the Committee Stage. Those amendments will include, among others, views advanced by hon. Members and other stakeholders who, in many workshops organized in Nairobi and Mombasa, proposed various issues that will now be captured in those amendments. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in particular, I have noted the contribution by Prof. Anyang'-Nyong'o, who pointed out that the Chair of the Biosafety Authority needs to be an eminent scientist, rather than a judge of the High Court, as earlier proposed ... view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Government takes serious cognizance of the role that science and technology plays in national development. It is for this reason that in 2005, the Government established a fully- fledged Ministry of Science and Technology. Indeed, in Vision 2030, this new Ministry has been given enormous responsibilities geared towards making Kenya a globally competitive and prosperous country with a high quality of life. Even before the formation of this new Ministry of Science and Technology, the Government, through an Act of Parliament Cap.250 of 1977, established the National Council for Science and ... view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was asked to give the measures that the Ministry is taking. Basically, those are the measures we are taking. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry realises this attainment, and that is why we have allocated Kshs200 million towards this end, in addition to other allocations. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we realise that the Ministry is new. It is about one-year- and-a-half-old, and we are very busy laying the necessary foundation. That is why we are deeply entrenched in the development of the relevant policies, so that other matters that will come later on will be addressed effectively. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you realise that Vision 2030 is a multisectoral kind of document, in which the Ministry of Science and Technology has a component. I do not have the exact figure, or the kind of investment the Government is intending to make. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have financial components in quite a number of areas. We have Kshs200 million for research and Kshs4.5 million for the Science Council. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Ministry, we value the input of not only the Government alone, but also that of the private sector and other non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs). That is why we have set aside a fund of Kshs200 million. view
• 15 Aug 2007 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not refer to the National Council for Science and Technology as an NGO. What I said is that we have set aside an amount of money, and we are also appealing to NGOs and the private sector so that it becomes a collaborative effort. view