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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have heard the distinguished Senator from Kakamega County repeatedly saying, ‘standing obviation’. I know he is a gynaecologist, but it is standing ovation. There is a difference between obviation and ovation."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The children of Kenya have now had an opportunity yet again, to understand the meaning of a frivolous point of order. As I was saying, we were never lobbied. Distinguished Members of the National Assembly and this House gave that standing ovation to the President because of the content of the speech. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "I would like us to start from there and reflect individually why we came to Nairobi in this august House. Reflect and remember that once upon a time Singapore was part of Malaysia. However, because of extreme levels of poverty, Singapore was kicked out of Malaysia and the leaders of Singapore at that time rose to share a vision that poverty could not be the reason why they would be condemned in Malaysia. Today, because of that shared vision, they have grown Asia's most successful economy. I, therefore, want to appeal to our colleagues, just like you fought in your primary, secondary and A level schools up to university to succeed, let us work for a vision, so that our country can come out of poverty. This requires dedication, commitment and a desire to live in the midst of success. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, why do we continue celebrating politics that speak to poverty instead of politics that speak to prosperity? It is a shame that we know what to do, but we do not do it. For example, infrastructure, as spoken to by the President, is critical. However, because of poor national decision making, the infrastructure that can spur the economy is not given priority. For example, if we must dual roads in Kenya, the first road to dual should be from Mombasa to Nairobi, followed by the road from Nairobi to Malaba border. Why? This is because the gateway into our economy is Mombasa and the exit from our economy to the biggest market to our country, Uganda, is through Malaba border. Why have we not dualled those roads? Instead, we have chosen to dual the road, very important to central province, not because of its economic significance, but because of its political significance. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need a paradigm shift whereby we think Kenyan. I would like to call upon leaders from central province not to succumb to the pressure from a few misguided leaders who some of us do not even know where they came from and are busy trying to radicalize on tribal lines; a region so critical to this country, so that they can have an opportunity of saying “having supported him and now that we are talking about withdrawing the support, the country is failing.” That is not the way to think. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, one of the Motions that I would be most proud of in this country is the Motion that exercised the power of this Parliament to remind the President and Deputy President that they are not above law. This is the route to go. I look at young Members of Parliament from Mount Kenya region with due respect, shy and keep quiet that if they take on the so-called ‘big man’ of the region, they jeopardize themselves. It is not true. We were there in 2007. The country was mobilized against the communities of Mount Kenya, and Soita Shitanda and I refused. For all Members of Parliament (MPs) from the then Western Province, Nyanza Province and Rift Valley Province, if you were not in the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM), there is no way you would be elected. This is because of the lie of mobilizing the country against one community. Soita Shitanda and I stood against that and we won the elections despite that. I therefore encourage the young MPs from Mount Kenya to ignore the threats that are meant to make them fear, to embrace nationalism instead of regionalism. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having said that, allow me to speak to the agricultural sector in this Address. The President said a number of things, but I will speak to issues of sugar and coffee. For the first time in the history of this country, we have now produced surplus sugar. I am a sugar cane farmer and I can assure you that the reason was only one thing - subsidized fertilizer. I therefore urge the governors of Kwale, Tana River, Kakamega, Busia, Bungoma, Migori, Kisumu and Homa Bay to step it a notch higher by supplementing the ploughing of those farms. If the young President in West Africa could buy tractors, I do not see anything stopping our governors from buying tractors, so that the tilling of our land can be affordable to our farmers. Subsidize that and Kenya will be a net exporter of sugar into the Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (COMESA) and beyond. Believe me, forex will come into this country to the extent that our economy will move a notch higher than where we are today. We are now witnessing a situation whereby, the sugar cartels that used to frustrate our farmers by importing cheap sugar have been locked out. We must stand behind the President for this achievement. It was never achieved by President Kenyatta, never by Moi, Mwai Kibaki or Uhuru, but President William Ruto has achieved it. This is for a fact. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the President is pronouncing himself on the issue of coffee and we need to do slightly more. It is unfortunate that because of the pressure of urbanization, large coffee farmers of Kiambu have put their farms under residential houses. We now must encourage farmers from outside central to do more coffee farming, because coffee is more productive than sugarcane farming. I would like to move on and speak to the issue of health. Colleagues, let us be aware of the advent of social media because it is a very serious agent of misinformation. It is also deliberate. I did not know that they have now become so sophisticated moving from photoshopping of pictures to even photoshop videos. I do not know whether you can call it photoshopping of videos. They are doing so effectively that a noble thing like the Social Health Authority (SHA) with the attendant Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) is being blacklisted on social media, to the extent that now a large percentage of the populace of Kenya thinks SHA and SHIF are wrong things. I want to assure Kenyans as a doctor of medicine, that the way to go, whether some people like it or not, is to move from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) to SHA and SHIF. Why? Because this is a social programme that was imagined by Charles Njonjo, the former Attorney General. He was a great man. In 1966, Njonjo was disturbed that the only people enjoying insurance in health were white people and Asians. So, he mooted this idea, and here we are today. Whereas Njonjo was responding to a population of eight million people, we want to be stuck in a social programme that was good when the country had a population of eight million people; and are refusing to embrace SHA and SHIF designed to meet a bigger population of 60 million people that we have in Kenya today. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the people misinforming the public are, again, politicians from a certain region. I am also proud of the locals of that region because they have ignored that misinformation such that it is the counties of Mount Kenya led by The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate."
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"content": "Nyeri, followed by Kirinyaga who are the highest in this new programme. Somebody tell the former Deputy President that you can play on social media, but on the ground, the people are the ones who are leading the Republic in embracing SHA and SHIF as it should be. I call upon the Senator for Turkana, Wajir, Mandera and Garissa to stop talking from Nairobi. They should go and tell the people in Turkana, Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and dear Kenyans to enlist in SHIF. They are the least---"
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"content": "You will have your time to debate. I know, you are cleverer than me, so show your intelligence when your time comes."
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"content": " The Senate Majority Whip, there is a point of order. Sen. Enock Wambua, what is your point of order?"
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