H.E. William Ruto, EGH, EBS

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 361 to 370 of 478.

• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the list is comprehensive. It clearly shows the date when the purchase was done, the name of the customer, the depot where the maize was collected, the receipt number, the quantity, the price and the amount paid. It is very comprehensive and it is here. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would not say whether there are politicians or not, because these are companies. It would be for somebody to go to the Registrar of companies and look at the directorship of these companies to ascertain whether they are owned by politicians; but there is no politician listed here by name as having bought maize from the NCPB. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, regarding the issue of notes, hon. Members write notes to Ministers. Let me give an example. Mr. Ngugi wrote a note to me that he wanted a depot of the NCPB in his constituency, and we complied because it was a request from an hon. Member. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Can I continue? I remember very well that two hon. Members, one of them from Tharaka Constituency, wrote to me saying that they needed food relief in their constituencies. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have not received any note from any Member of Parliament requesting for commercial maize for themselves or their companies. This is because even if they did that, they would not receive my consent. Further, I have not written any note to anybody, including the National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), to instruct them to sell maize to anybody because it is not my responsibility to issue maize. My responsibility is to ensure the maize is there and approve quantities to be sold. Once you approve 500,000 bags, it is up to the NCPB together with the ... view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm that indeed, in this list, the companies that have been mentioned by hon. Kioni are here. I will take time and go through this list and ascertain whether the companies Members want are in it. I do not think it will serve any purpose for us to discredit this list. This list has been prepared by the trustees of the SGR because this list was not brought from my office. It was--- view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, hon. Kioni asked about Buseki Company which already is in this list. If Buseki is not a miller and they bought the maize in contravention of the law, that is why we have the Criminal Investigations Department (CID), Inspectorate of State Corporations and the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission (KACC), to ascertain that these people bought maize fraudulently so that they can face the law. The list is here and the names are there. So, I do not think hon. Kioni needs to worry about this. view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the status of the investigations, I do not have control over when the investigations will be complete but we have given very clear indications to the investigators on the urgency of this matter and the anxiety to which it brings to the country, for them to conclude the investigation with speed. This is because on the basis of those investigations, I intend to take serious structural changes in the NCPB if it is proved that there was indeed complicity either on the side of the management, trustees of the SGR or the companies that are listed ... view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me also respond to the issue that was raised by hon. Thuo as to why are we paying our farmers Kshs1,250 per bag and paying more for maize that we are importing from outside the country. Let me answer it this way: The money we are using to buy maize is taxpayers' money and if we want to spend taxpayers' money to buy maize from outside and enhance our maize in the country, that is why we are going this extra mile. We would not be spending a coin if we had enough maize in this ... view
• 22 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me explain to hon. Members here. The reason why we are importing maize is not because we want to pay higher prices for farmers in other countries. We would rather pay our own farmers. The reason why we have to import maize is because we do not have enough maize in the country. My understanding is that contrary to the statement of Mr. Kutuny that farmers have refused to sell maize, we are buying on average between 20,000 and 28,000 bags of maize every day from farmers through our National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) buying ... view