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"content": "the allotment letters. However, in terms of rates where you need to do the change of user, change the use of the title from the freehold probably to leasehold, these are things that need some processes. I believe that if county governments can involve members of the county and make sure that the business people are not oppressed, so that the kind of business that they are doing also through those plots, is well articulated. I also support the Statement by Sen. Cherarkey on the issue of human/wildlife conflicts. Human/wildlife conflict is a problem in our counties particularly counties like Kajiado and Taita-Taveta. Even the Nairobi National Park has been a big problem."
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"content": " Hon. Senators, we are out of time for Statements and Questions. Sen. Seki, you have one minute."
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"content": "This human/wildlife conflict is very bad in our counties. The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) must be put on notice because you can see Sen. Cherarkey has brought a Statement where cheetahs have been a menace in his county. In my county, we have a problem of lions eating children. I have a problem where a lion has eaten a child in my county just here next to Nairobi National Park. This is a big problem in our counties and nationally. The national Government through KWS must be put on notice in this Statement."
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"content": " Hon. Senators, we have come to the end of Questions and Statements. At this juncture, I would like to rearrange the Order Paper, so that we move to Order No.19. Next Order."
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"content": "THE SOCIAL PROTECTION BILL (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILLS NO.12 OF 2025)"
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"content": " Senate Majority Leader, please, proceed."
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"content": " Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that The Social Protection Bill (National Assembly Bill No.12 of 2025) be now read a Second Time. I have had the distinct honor of moving important Bills in this House, but from a person that is socially conscious of the needs of vulnerable people in our society, I would say this is perhaps the most important. In our country, we have various forms of social protection measures that we give out. Unfortunately, due to lack of proper organisation by successive administrations, we have a one-size-fits-all approach to social interventions across our country. There are many conversations that are lost because our needy people do not have somebody to speak out for them. On many occasions, the conversations on social interventions is left to the elite here in Nairobi who can speak on these particular issues, who are articulate, have 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": "representations and nobody speaks for the needy. I am just laying the basis before I move this Bill. I challenge you, colleague Senators, that you must take your legislative responsibility more seriously and ensure that you speak for the people that sent you here. Sen. Eddy, my good friend, you were not sent here by very well-to-do people. I know the people of Migori. They are just as much like the people of Kericho that I represent. Their standing on the wealth radar of the country is almost average. There are many things that we do as a country, I will come to the social intervention programmes, what we send to persons with a disability and to the social support programme of those citizens that are 70-year plus. If you go to your county, Sen. Ogola and ask in a public gathering in Homa Bay where you come from, you will find that there is a 70-year-old who is in the safety net and they are being supported, then you will find another one who is not with no clearly defined process upon which this exercise is done. There is a lack of specific focus on this special category of Kenyans. There is even a very live conversation, this is a wrong time to have it, but we need to have this conversation as a country. This issue of zero rating of bread and milk, how many of your constituents, Sen. Eddy, buy milk and bread from shops and supermarkets? About 99 per cent, if not 100 per cent, of the people that you represent in this Parliament wake up to take milk with ngwaci, nduma or even without any ‘accompaniment’ if that is what your people call it. Despite this, many times when you have a conversation about the cost of bread, it is made to appear as if it is a national problem, yet the Kenyans that actually consume bread on their breakfast do not form the larger population. About 99 per cent of the people that many of us, that come from the rural counties, represent in this House, that is not part and parcel of their basic requirements, yet you are told that it needs to be zero-rated because it is food of the poor. Therefore, my constituents, who are very poor, do their share in paying the tax burden to the country, but then that same tax that has been deducted from them is used to shoulder the burden of those who enjoy bread and milk. If you are to move it to Nairobi, for example, and other cities like Mombasa, Nakuru, Eldoret and the bigger cities, what Kenya has not been able to successfully do is to stratify the locations and the areas through which those that need to benefit from social intervention from the Government and support live and are able to access these services. Why should I, who lives in a fairly affluent neighborhood, want to buy--- If you read why, for example, bread and milk is subsidized, at the same price with people who come from our informal settlements--- If it is a subsidy of some sort to help the urban poor, that should not be a problem because we must be a society that appreciates that people are not at the same place in terms of their spending abilities. Is it not possible to classify so that those who benefit from these social interventions are targeted and, therefore, we do not burden the entire country benefiting people who do not necessarily need it. Take the example of the issue that we had a few weeks ago; examination fees. There was a big headline saying President William Ruto has stopped payment of exam fees for students. I dug deeper to try and understand what exactly the conversation is. The unfortunate thing with our newspapers, the editors and people that speak in the media, is that we see every Government policy decision through the prism of politics. It is so 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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