Walter Nyambati

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 171 to 180 of 256.

• 9 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, due to the size of the Cabinet that we have, many Ministers are not even doing their work. The issue of collective responsibility is no longer there. Everybody is doing what he wants to do. It is about time that we fixed the number of the Ministries in this country. I do not feel that it is important for us to wait until we have the new Constitution in place to do so. It is urgent and we should go ahead and do it. It is also important that we enshrine it in the Constitution, ... view
• 9 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to address the issue of the Assistant Ministers that we have now. Assistant Ministers are not being given the kind of responsibilities that they should have. I want to support strongly that we should change, so that they become Deputy Ministers with full responsibilities of acting capacity in the event the Minister is not present for one or other reason. They should be given that mandate, to feel like they hold that Ministry, so that they are the principle deputies of the Ministers in the event the Ministers are not there. view
• 9 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: The issue of education is extremely important. I want to say here now, that it should be mandatory for any Minister to have a minimum of a university degree before he or she is appointed. For that matter, I think we should even go further and say that any person who qualifies to be a Member of Parliament should be a graduate. This is because education now is affordable and anybody should get it. More so, once you become a Member of Parliament, you aspire to be a Minister and even to be Head of State. If you cannot articulate ... view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this programme is grossly abused in my constituency because most of the youth who do the roads are not paid. The administration gives ghost names so that they can pay extra money. What measures has the Ministry taken to ensure that the youth who do this work are properly paid and that there are no ghost workers who benefit under this programme? view
• 8 Sep 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is very clear that the Government is killing the tea industry as it has killed the coffee industry and the pyrethrum industry in Kisii. Could the Assistant Minister tell us what value-adding measures he has put in place to ensure that small-scale farmers gain from tea? Where I come from, the farmers are about to uproot tea trees. Could the Assistant Minister explain this? view
• 18 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to also take this opportunity to support this Vote and at the same time decry the fact that it is underfunded. I think it is view
• 13 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, there are many roads in the country, where members of the public have taken to erecting bumps, including one of the roads in my constituency, namely the Nyamira-Kisii Road. What is the Ministry doing to ensure that bumps are erected on most of the roads where accidents happen? view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, it is a big shame that almost two years after our people were displaced, we are still talking of IDPs. It is a big shame that this country has not taken seriously, the issue of our own people, who are refugees in our own country. I want to know from the Assistant Minister whether he could give us a view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. Is the Assistant Minister in order to mislead this House by saying that the ADC farm in Molo was allocated to squatters when the list he has laid on the Tabled shows one Saitoti with 221 acres? Is that a squatter being given 221 acres? There are many people who were allocated hundreds of acres. Is he in order to mislead this House that it was squatters who were given this land when G.K. Saitoti was given 221 acres? view
• 12 Aug 2009 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. view