Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1471 to 1480 of 1775.

• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I just wanted to ask the Minister: Since army worms can attack any part of the country and the invasion is normally unpredictable, what steps is he putting in place to ensure that this menace is eradicated completely, rather than waiting to fight when the army worms have already attacked and destroyed the crops? view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: What the Minister is doing--- view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am asking him to clarify about the issue of heavy overheads in the sugar sector as well as in other agricultural sectors. Secondly--- view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to seek a short clarification. view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the strategies that we are putting in place work, but as long as we will have dumping of cheap sugar onto our local market, we will not achieve much. So, I want the Minister to clarify whether he is taking that factor into account. The sugar sector in this country has suffered because of importation of cheap sugar. view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, when I was contributing to this Motion on Wednesday, I said that the Motion was long overdue. I said that the scope of the Motion offers a good beginning, but I thought that the Motion should cover a larger scope than this. We are talking about leadership. I talked about the confusion we are likely to envisage in the near future. I said that what we got from the Bomas Draft which came from the grassroots level was that we needed to devolve more. When we devolve, we take resources to the grassroots level. Wherever ... view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are better off when we start from the known than the unknown. We are better with leaders, for example, Ministers, who are knowledgeable about what they are doing than those who are not. Even those who have not been trained have to understand that training and re-training should be a continuous process. I think these are the aspects that this Motion should be addressing. view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should not only dwell on financial management. This is because you may understand financial management today, but we also want efficiency. We want things to be done quickly and services to be delivered promptly to the people. We cannot do that if we just say that we understand financial management but we do not have modern management techniques. It is very important that as we debate this Motion, we take into account all these aspects, particularly those to do with management as a whole. view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Corporate governance in the management of public and private institutions was introduced sometime back. However, I noticed that we have got Government corporations, where chief executive officers and board members go for corporate governance training. But when they return to their offices, they are supposed to be answerable, for example, to the Permanent Secretary, Secretary to the Cabinet and Head of Public Service who does not appreciate their training because he is not trained. So, most of the money that has been spent on corporate governance has gone to waste. This is because its purpose is to ensure that there ... view
• 3 Jun 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to support the Motion. view