1 Jul 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to ask Question No.226 of 2021 directed to the Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation. (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the status of the Moiben–Kuserwo Community Water Project that was launched in September 2017? (ii) What challenges has the project faced and what steps is the Ministry taking to address them? (iii) Could the Cabinet Secretary clarify whether the materials used in the project are of the required standard, especially the building materials and pipes? (iv) When is the project expected to be completed? Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to make some comments on this particular Petition. We have talked about it several times in this House. We have existed for a long time with wild animals. However, in the recent past, I do not know what is happening. Our crops, especially those along the riparian line where we are neighbouring the Rimoi Game Reserve, have gotten lost and there is no compensation. I think as a House, what we need to do when appropriating and doing the estimates, is to allocate good money to Kenya Wildlife Service. If it is that ...
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also want to make some comments on this particular Petition. We have talked about it several times in this House. We have existed for a long time with wild animals. However, in the recent past, I do not know what is happening. Our crops, especially those along the riparian line where we are neighbouring the Rimoi Game Reserve, have gotten lost and there is no compensation. I think as a House, what we need to do when appropriating and doing the estimates, is to allocate good money to Kenya Wildlife Service. If it is that ...
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
estimate of maybe Kshs2.5 billion so that farmers and also those killed by wild animals are given compensation. However, if we only continue to lament and we are the ones appropriating the money, then we are going nowhere. Therefore, thank you Hon. Speaker.
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17 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I support the increase of Kshs100 million for the two ginneries in the western part of the country because even in Elgeyo-Marakwet County, we used to grow cotton in the early 1980s and 1990s until the factories collapsed and the prices of cotton went down. I believe that with the revival of these ginneries, others will come up. Even those that have not been allocated money in the coming financial year, we can check on them in the supplementary budgets that will come, either Supplementary Budget I or Supplementary Budget II. Even in the Budget for ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I need protection.
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, taking into consideration the findings of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation in its Report on the consideration of a Petition regarding removal from office of Ms. Tabitha Mutemi as a member of the Media Council of Kenya, laid on the Table of the House on 30th March 2021, and pursuant to the provisions of Section 14(3) of the Media Council Act, 2013, this House finds that the Petition as The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
submitted discloses sufficient grounds as contemplated under Section 14(1) of the Media Council Act, 2013 and resolves to submit the complaint to the Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communication, Technology and Youth Affairs in accordance with Section 14(3) of the Media Council Act, 2013. You conveyed the Petition by Mr. Muriuki Muriungi who is an advocate of the High Court regarding removal of Ms. Tabitha as a Member of the Media Council of Kenya on 11th March 2021. Consequently, you referred it to our Committee for consideration and tabling in the House within seven days in accordance with the provisions of ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
The Petition avers that Ms. Tabitha was ineligible for appointment as a member of the Medial Council of Kenya according to Section 16 of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Act as read with Section 2(1) of the Fourth Schedule which stipulates that an employee of the IEBC - and it is good for the Members to listen to this - shall not be eligible for appointment to another public office. That is what the law says. The petitioner contended that Ms. Tabitha Mutemi’s appointment to the Media Council of Kenya was also in violation of circular No. OP/CAB19/1A ...
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28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly:
The other ground advanced by the petitioner for the removal was gross misconduct based on the allegation that Ms. Tabitha defied advice from the Principal Secretary, Ministry of Information, Communication, Technology and Youth Affairs by a letter dated 16th September 2020 that she should not hold two public offices and that she had to choose one by 30th September 2020. Hon. Speaker, without providing further particulars, the petitioner also alleged that in support of the gross misconduct ground, Ms. Tabitha defied a lawful instruction from the office of the Chief of Staff, the Head of Public Service, the office of ...
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