Wesley Kipchumba Korir

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 61 to 70 of 312.

• 5 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank the Mover for donating his time to me. I would like to support this Bill. As a country, we should be going towards zero cheating in exams. That is where we should make sure that the integrity of our exams is very high, and there will be no child who will cheat. view
• 5 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The exams in this country have become a condemning issue for our students. It has become a chance for people to condemn others. Exams should not be used to condemn people, but to test the progress of students. As we dissolve this House and go to the 12th Parliament, we have not brought clear reforms in the education system. First of all, we should look at whether we need exams which enable us to get Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE). We are condemning our children as young as 12 years old. Right now, kids as young as 12 or ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Bill. At the outset, I would like to say that I support most of these amendments, except one. I will specifically dwell on that. It is the clause which introduces the dairy regulation levy. New Section 23A says: “(1) There shall be payable to the Board by every producer a dairy regulatory levy at the rate of one per centum of ex-factory price per kilogramme of processed milk and milk products. (2) Despite sub-section (1), a county government may, pursuant to ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: I stand here to oppose that section and the extra levies and charges to dairy farmers. Farmers are already struggling. They are already underpaid and being short-changed by the processors. If we, as a House, care about this nation, then we should all stand up and make sure that, that part is not included. We are going to overburden the dairy farmers. For every kilogramme of milk the farmers sell, they are already paying 20 cents to the Dairy Board. Now we are going to include another percentage and the county governments collecting cess from the dairy farmers. What are ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: So, I urge this House that, as we consider this Bill and as it comes to the Committee of the whole House, we all unite to fight for our dairy farmers and make sure that they get profits from the hard work that they do every day. Let us remove those levies because they will discourage our farmers from doing business. They will encourage many county governments to impose charges. It does not even say what percentage the county government is going to charge. It just says “Despite subsection (1), a county government may, pursuant to Article 209 (3), impose ... view
• 22 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: unemployed, how many jobs have been created and, how many people are still looking for jobs? By creating that, I think it will help a lot. It will even help the Government of the day to know its progress in terms of unemployment. It will help the country to know how many people are out there and which fields need people. When it comes to the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act, this amendment has come at the right time. When you look at what Jakoyo was bringing, it was not going to help fight the menace that we see out ... view
• 21 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this Bill. From the outset, I support this Bill. The SACCOs have been a go-to institution for most Kenyans. We live in a country where access to financial credit is a burden to many Kenyans. We live in a country where 80 per cent of Kenyans cannot access credit. That is the failure that I think we face as a country. If a young man or a woman in the village cannot go to the bank and get financial credit, then she or he cannot move forward. SACCOs ... view
• 21 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We have many financial institutions at the moment. There is the table banking system that most women are involved in. We have our mothers and neighbours in table banking. In every village in this country, women have come together and formed a table banking system. From there, they save, put their money together, share and borrow it. Many poor families are now able to feed their children and take them to school because of the table banking system that has been created in our villages. When I came here as a Member of Parliament for Cherangany, I realised that there ... view
• 21 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: this country, yet many of the riders do not own motorbikes. If we encourage them to save through SACCOs, within one year or six months, they will have bought their own motorbikes and become their own bosses. The key is encouraging our people to save. As we put these regulations in place, let us look at ways of preventing bad habits and encourage good habits. view
• 15 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Nay! view