WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? STOP MISLEADING THE COUNTRY, YOU NEVER CAMPAIGNED FOR RUTO!

Added: 2026-05-06

[00:00:05]Go ahead, Senator.

[00:00:08]>> Mr. Speaker, because Parliament keeps record of everything, Hansard has been told that the minister went around with the president asking the people in the countryside what they wanted. Speaker, let me stop you.

[00:00:23]>> The minister did not campaign with President William R. How was he there?

[00:00:27]He was campaigning with me leaving the country.

[00:00:31]>> Bonal maybe we heard differently >> but the CS did not in any way mention that he accompanied the president in those visits. He said it the president did. So let me just stop you there. You have no point of order.

[00:00:50]>> No no no. There's no need to fors.

[00:00:57]But that's not what the CS say. What you said is not what the CS said. That's why I should actually find you out of order for raising a fibbrous uh point of order. CS, please proceed.

[00:01:10]>> So M Mr. Speaker, I was just trying to allude to the fact that sometimes nations bury themselves in big big terms like visibility and all those things and we spend all our lifetime doing visibility on what we already know. So is there unemployment? Yes.

[00:01:30]Do we need to create value and dignity to our people? Yes. And the people have spoken. So I think this is what you're trying to do. Just to draw uh an example in the year 2002 when President Mo Kbaki came to office we implemented the free primary education. Uh it was implemented on day one. We literally opened all the doors. I'm sure the honorable Kal remembers no physibility was ever done.

[00:01:58]Was it a success? Yes. So I think let us also agree there are historical challenges we have had and again we may not want to go to the spend money take a lot of time time is gone is time for action and I think this these types we agree they are not perfect but we are on a journey to perfecting them so that admission means that in our second batch we'll be able to correct where we didn't do maybe there was an omission but Again, we want to say that we don't want to bury ourselves in too many jagons while our people are suffering by the roadside and uh you know there's no sanitation tomatoes by the roadside the whole day by evening they all go to waste. So I don't think we need a physibility to confirm that potatoes or tomatoes will wither by the end of the day. Mr. speaker on the issue of incentives and I agree with the honorable member Omata that indeed we are working with the counties to attract now that's now how we get to Migori Wasengishi and all the others so the county governments have an opportunity to create business forums to showcase the opportunities that are there what incentives are there partner with the bank so that uh we can now have more value addition in the western parts of the country including busy migori and all the others. Our idea was that in the east African market we can be able to supply those markets using our kites in those particular parts of the country.

[00:03:35]So they were actually export oriented like the one in Busousia and just for information in Busousia we have the EPZ and also the uh the kite and they are both at the same place. So again h just trying to emphasize that we believe that the future of Kenya is also conquering regional markets that will be very useful for us. But I appreciate and uh even as I say that we shouldn't be too academic also to acknowledge that uh is known to me through his writing as a as a serious poet and I salute him. We went through his poems when you were in >> my [clears throat] intervention. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Allow me to go to Miss C. Let me in. No, no, no, no inter no.

[00:04:22]Sorry, Senator. No, no intervention.

[00:04:26]No intervention. Senator, uh, cabinet secretary, you have 5 minutes, so please.

[00:04:31]>> Thank you. The honorable >> quickly over the questions.

[00:04:33]>> The honorable Kenya h I think the question of um why don't we map out the whole country so that we don't end up doing industries everywhere, agriculture everywhere, you know, I think there are some countries that can do well. Just for your information uh certain countries such as China have taken like a whole province and said this is where we get our potato not just agriculture one particular variety because it takes a bit of infrastructure planning aggregation uh the extension officers to make sure that a particular commodity succeeds. So I think this is well in order however because the driving of the economic agenda of a county is the responsibility of the governors. This is where we really need to cooperate so that when we say we want to have like five counties as a key industrial centers, it doesn't mean the others are not important, but they can also do something else including tourism and other issues. So I think it's best is to pick maybe two or three that are most useful and run away with them. Some counties have done very well in logistics. We can support them to become the logistical hub for the entire east and central Africa. Then with respect to collaborating with the ministry of housing, yes we are working with them and uh although we are not the implementing ministry in terms of markets uh for housing uh we work together for information for citation of where the market will be built and we continue to deal with emerging issues as and when they come. We consider markets to be an extension of the housing agenda because when you build a house, those people will require some place to go and buy their vegetables. They will require some place to go and work. And if you just put people in houses without providing the necessary social infrastructure, you actually creating ghettos and these will be centers of crime. So it is necessary to provide associated services such as market, social centers, nursery schools for the kids and a bit of a dispensary that is what we call an integrated living including a basketball or place where they can play some sports otherwise we will have high crime that we cannot be able to control and this is part of that program. The honorable did mention about markets in uh Moranga and some of them that may be empty. I think what I would really want to encourage all of us is that when you are making economic decisions, it may be necessary to remove a bit of the politics and this is what I have in mind. So you find that a market is to be built in a particular place but the citation of that market sometimes ends up not necessarily being an economic decision is more you know leaders want it in this location or this is where I come from. But the point is a market is defined as where the buyers, the sellers and the commodities are. So if you take it if you take the physical building outside those three parameters then that will be a white elephant. So we need to work with what is already in existence and that is why you find like on your way to nakuru there's a place called sukum jinga there was no physical market but there are buyers there are sellers and there was a commodity so what the government is doing is just placing now the infrastructure so that they can get inside there. So we need to align to what the public want in incitation of that mangoes from the lower parts of Muranga. I want to confirm indeed that's true and as I said with respect to Kambani h we would want to make Kenya a major producer of mango palp and this is really where the governors can also help us so that we create enough mango plantations and we have the right climatic weathers there and most significantly is the fact that we already have markets for mango palp and I don't think Kenya can satisfy the global demand for mango palp for the next even 20 Yes. So, it's time for leaders to come together, get the right varieties, get the right infrastructure, and we also have a company that is coming to set up here in Kenya that will be buying much of the fruits for sale into the European market. One of the biggest market connections to some of our retail outlets there. Lastly, from the honorable Bonoto is on training of farmers. You do it sometimes on requests specifically by a cooperative or by the governor or