H.E. William Ruto, EGH, EBS

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the past, the NCPB has had its bad days. But that is not to mean that we cannot change and reform it. I want to tell the hon. Member that the NCPB has paid every farmer every coin that we owed to the farming community this year. There is no single cent that is outstanding between the NCPB and the farmers. I also want to tell the hon. Member that the problems of the NCPB are being addressed. We have retrenched close to 1,500 staff. We now have about 400 staff. We have increased the capacity ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to assist the hon. Member by telling him that, maybe, he listened to another person. I do not think any person who is sane can allege that the price of view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: can be Kshs10. He must have obtained that information from some other place. I want to assure him that we are concerned. That is why the Government is willing to put money into this market, so that we can intervene, as the Government, at the inputs level. We are discussing with the Kenya Seed Company and we have put plans in place to reduce the cost of seed by about 30 per cent. We are, as a Ministry, working on ways of reducing the cost of fertilizer by about 30 per cent to 40 per cent. We are working towards ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to assure Mr. Gitobu Imanyara, the Member of April 29, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 711 Parliament for Imenti Central, that indeed, that programme is actually in the works. Yesterday, I spoke to the leadership of the clergy in the Rift Valley. They had a meeting yesterday. They are going to have another meeting tomorrow. We are planning to have a joint meeting on Sunday, so that we can lay down the appropriate framework with all the stakeholders, so that we can build confidence between the communities in Rift Valley Province. The confidence is currently absent. The ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will repeat this again to Dr. Khalwale! The least the internally displaced people in Rift Valley Province need are persons like him, who want to pontificate and pretend that they value the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) when they have no clue as to how they can get back to their farms. We are working on a concrete, practical plan on how to get people to go home. view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: We chose not to play politics with it, because it is a serious issue. I would like to request Dr. Khalwale to desist from bringing cheap politics into this issue. These are people who are living in the IDP camps, and the least they need is cheap politics about who is right and who is wrong. We want to resettle these people. The entire leadership, those of us who are elected Members of Parliament, elected councillors, religious leaders, grassroot leaders--- That is what we require. We are working on it. It has nothing to do with fertiliser. Mr. Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to admit that the issue of IDPs is very serious. I wish Dr. Khalwale could treat the issue with the seriousness it deserves and stop demeaning it to the level he is degenerating into. 712 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 29, 2008 I also want to tell him that I have also come to bury somebody in his constituency, who was killed by the kind of politics that goes on down there. I have been there! So, I think, with equal measure, we should treat this issue with the seriousness it deserves. view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my Ministry is assessing the capacity of a partnership between the Government and the private sector. Indeed, we have capacity in this country to blend fertiliser. We are looking into the possibility of establishing a partnership between the Government and private sector towards importing raw materials, and blending the fertiliser here at home. Our estimation is that if that effort succeeds, we will be in a position to reduce the cost of fertiliser by between 25 per cent and 30 per cent. We are assessing that and also the long-term possibility of building our own plant. That ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker Sir, to improve on the yield of crops already in the farms, we have taken urgent steps to make sure that whatever maize has been planted, we get maximum yield from it. That is why we have gone out of our way and now we have the CAN fertiliser that farmers can use. It is retailing at Kshs1,650 per 50-kilogramme bag, down from Kshs2,400. Mr. Speaker, Sir, secondly, we are making arrangements to make sure that we do not lose any of the maize, or cereals, that we produce to any other market. We have taken urgent steps ... view
• 25 Mar 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the farming community around the country want to have a firm statement from the Government. As we speak, farmers are ready to go to their farms. Fertilizer is retailing at Kshs4,000 for a bag of 50 kilogrammes up from Kshs1,800 a year ago. When will the March 25, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 355 fertilizer be available? Could the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs tell the farming community in this country whether fertilizer will be available tomorrow, next week or which date? How much will that fertilizer be retailing at, so that farmers can decide whether they want ... view