Wavinya Ndeti

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Is the Member of Parliament in order to mention only Members of Parliament from Ukambani who own KMC land? Why did he not mention the others? If he has the names, we would want to know who they are. This is discrimination. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Could that reference to “Kamba Members of Parliament” be removed from the records of Parliament? view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. First, I am proud to be a Kenyan and proud to be a Mkamba girl. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) The Ministry has so far disbursed a total of Kshs5, 905,000 to 147 youth enterprises in Keiyo South Constituency through the YEDF. Of this amount, Kshs3, 180,000 has been disbursed to 64 youth groups while Kshs2, 725,000 has been disbursed to 83 individuals who have graduated from group loans. An additional Kshs10, 647,858 has been disbursed to 594 youth enterprises in Elgeyo Marakwet County through financial intermediaries in partnership with the YEDF. (b) A list of all beneficiaries in the constituency indicating their respective locations is herewith attached. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to assure the hon. Member that before we disburse any money to the youth groups, we train them on entrepreneurship and after that we follow up on the progress that they are making on their projects. We have officers on the ground; we have employed two officers in every constituency to deal with the youth in the constituencies. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to inform the hon. Member that we have been holding county meetings to discuss the youth issues and how to fund their projects. But when we invite hon. Members of Parliament to such meetings, some of them do not turn up. So, please, when you get an invitation from us, come and join us so that you can know what is happening in the constituencies. I do not want to mention names here, but we have had quite a few who do not attend those meetings. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: With regard to the hon. Member’s second question, I can avail that information about how we have been funding youth programmes in each constituency tomorrow because that it is available in my office. We have all information on what we have done in each and every constituency. We are ready to avail that information. We, as a Ministry, have always worked with the hon. Members. So, I urge hon. Members to be involved in whatever youth are doing in their constituencies. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have youth groups which are composed of members who are Muslims taking money from the YEDF. I can give you names of the groups from the different constituencies where we have members from the Muslim community who have taken the money. But if that is an issue, as a Ministry, we are always ready to listen. We are there for the youth. If that is an issue, I can assure you as a Ministry that we will deal with it. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the hon. Member says the amounts we disburse to youth are low. How low is it? The amount they borrow ranges from Kshs50,000 to Kshs400,000. The minimum they borrow is Kshws50,000. Once they have paid Kshs50,000, they can borrow Kshs100,000 or Kshs400,000. If they want to borrow from the financial intermediaries, they can borrow up to Kshs1 million. Currently, we are advising them that once they have paid what they borrowed as a group, they can now borrow individually. We have come up with packages that are very youth friendly. If the hon. Member is interested ... view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not have a lot of information on that issue. I will get back to you. I can come back and give an answer on that. I do not want to talk about something that I do not know. view