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"content": "BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING TUESDAY, 11TH MARCH, 2025"
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Cheruiyot",
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"content": " Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.57(1) to hereby present the business for the week that commences Tuesday, 11th March, 2025. Allow me to give the status of legislative business pending before the Senate then I will make this presentation. There are 55 Bills, of which 43 are at the Second Reading Stage and 12 are at the Committee of the Whole. We have 31 Motions pending conclusion and 25 Petitions are pending conclusion, out of which 17 are due for reporting by the respective Standing Committees. We have 523 Statements pursuant to Standing Order No. 53(1) pending conclusion. On Tuesday, 11th March, 2025, the Senate Business Committee will meet to consider the business for the week. The tentative business for that day will include business not concluded from today’s Order Paper as well as the business indicated in the Notice Paper. The tentative business for morning sitting on Wednesday, 12th March, 2025, will include schedule of questions to the various Cabinet Secretaries as business that will have been approved by the Senate Business Committee on Tuesday and Motions as well. There are questions to the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Defence by Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda, SC. There are two questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Ministry of Water, Sanitation and Irrigation by Sen. Oketch Gicheru and Sen. Maanzo. I hope Sen. Sifuna will be in the House to meet his constituent who he says he has never met. There are also questions to the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development by Sen. (Dr.) Murango. The tentative business on Wednesday, 12th March, 2025, will include business not concluded from the Order Paper for Tuesday, 11th March, 2025 and the following Bills. It will have Bills at the Second Reading Stage which is the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 27 of 2024); the Sport (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 33 of 2024); and the County Wards (Equitable Development) Bill (Senate Bills No. 20 of 2024. There are also the Committee of the Whole Bills which includes the Early Childhood Education (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 54 of 2023); the Energy (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 42 of 2023); the County Public Finance Laws (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 39 of 2023); the County Governments Election Laws (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 2 of 2024); the County Assembly Services (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 34 of 2023); the Street Vendors (Protection of Livelihood) Bill (Senate Bills No.41 of 2023); the Local Content Bill (Senate Bills No. 50 of 2023); the Land (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.40 of 2022); and the Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.53 of 2023). The projected business for Thursday, 13th March, 2025, will include business not concluded in the Order Paper for Wednesday, 12th March, 2025, and any other business scheduled by the Senate Business Committee. 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": "It is worth noting to the House that since we resumed this Session, we have never voted for any business beyond a voice call. I know that my colleague Senators are busy with committee sittings and other business beyond the voting, but it is equally important to vote and pass legislation. I hope that next week, we shall raise the requisite numbers to conclude all the businesses that I have read. Some of these Bills date back to 2015, if I may recall. The first time I heard of the Local Content Bill was in 2015 and it is still in our Order Paper. It has gone full circle and I wish that we can conclude on it because it is an important Bill that will help our county governments earn revenue from explorative activities. Therefore, I want to urge colleagues to find time to be present in the House for us to conclude on this business. I thank you and lay this Statement on the Table of this House."
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"content": "(Sen. Cheruiyot laid the document on the Table)"
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"content": " Thank you, the Senate Majority Leader. We will now have brief comments for the next 15 minutes."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I could sense some anxiety on the part of the Senate Majority Whip when the Statement by the Senator for Kirinyaga, Sen. (Dr.) Murango, was being read. It was as though he did not want us to have an opportunity to speak about the Social Health Authority (SHA) issues. The Chairperson of the Rural and Urban Private Hospitals Association is a young man I schooled with. He is called Dr. Lishenga. He was my candidate for Senate in Kakamega County under the Orange Democratic Movement party ticket. He has done a fantastic job representing those rural hospitals. He has informed me that in as much as they have suspended hostilities for now, their issues still abound. We, at the Committee on County Public Accounts, had the opportunity to sit with the Auditor-General when she appeared before our Committee. This is a matter of great national interest and our colleagues should not appear to want to gag Members when they are discussing a matter that is in the public domain. Some of the issues that emerged from the meeting with the Auditor-General is that there are a lot of questions to be asked about the way that we have rolled out the Social Health Insurance Scheme. She singled out a few issues and I want to mention them. The first one is unbudgeted procurement and uncompetitive procurement. She also mentioned unfavorable clauses to the people of Kenya. I heard the President say when he was in Malava that there were no public resources used in this procurement. I do not know how the President defines public resources. This is because the Auditor-General has flagged that in that contract for the digital system, the owner of the system, who is not even the Government but a private consortium, takes 2.5 per cent of my monthly contribution. Every time I pay Kshs32,000, that digital system’s operator takes 2.5 per cent. They then get 5 per cent on claims to hospitals. This is something that does not make any sense to me. Why are claims being subjected to 5 per cent deductions by the system operator? There is something also called track and trace that they charge 1.5 per cent. 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": "There are unconscionable contract terms and we have to speak about these issues without appearing like we are witch-hunting or anything. I want to assure the President that Sen. Sifuna’s money is also defined as public money because I am making a contribution. We are all making a contribution. If the system operator is getting money from there, then it means that the Kshs104 billion that we are using to procure this system is actually public money. The Auditor-General made a suggestion to the House. Unfortunately, I am no longer a Member of the Senate Business Committee but her suggestion is something that will be helpful to all of us, as a House. She said the she needs to be allowed to also speak to Parliament in what she called a State of Accountability Address. We let her appear before this House and tell us the state of accountability in the country. The address will cut across all the issues such as matters that are devolved and our individual counties. There are problems all over the place. She tried to run away, but we tried to tell her that the Audit Act gives her powers to make recommendations that bind the hands of other institutions in the accountability ecosystem. According to her, after she has said that there were four material breaches of the law in the procurement of the system for SHA, it is the responsibility of Parliament to make recommendations. However, the Audit Act also asks her to make recommendations. There are things that she can do now that they say that Parliament is the weak link in the accountability ecosystem, that we can be compromised and that her recommendations never see the light of the day. She can tie Parliament’s hands by saying that in these four breaches of the law in procurement of this system, the following officers at SHA, the principal secretaries and the following cabinet secretaries are responsible and should be held to account. If we, as a House, want to change her recommendations, then we will be the ones to explain to the public why we are letting thieves go. I thank you."
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"content": " Sen. Sifuna, you have enjoyed five minutes out of the 15 minutes that are provided for Statements this afternoon. I did not give time allocation when we started, but from now, every Senator will now have two minutes to make a brief comment. You should not debate about the Statement."
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"content": " Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be unfair to us, but we will try to do justice to an ongoing important national conversation."
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"content": " You can each have three minutes."
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