Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, under Standing Order Nos.96 and 101, we need to be responsible in the statements that we make. This is a House of rules and order. Therefore, to assert that I am being treated with kid gloves is misleading. This is because I have received the punishment. The fact is that on several occasions, I have suffered the punishment like Sen. Sifuna. So, it depends with the offence that you have committed. It is good that Sen. Murango should be attending sessions. When I declined to sit, the punishment I received was to be chased out of ... view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: 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 Services,Senate. view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am mad because you can imagine, as a man, if somebody accused you of requesting for sexual favours. We cannot be intimidated. view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, I want also to join you in welcoming several guests. Today, the Senate has a lot of guests from students to visiting delegations. I want from the onset to congratulate Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, Deputy Speaker Emeritus, for bringing this Bill; the Kenya Sign Language Bill (Senate Bills No. 9 of 2023). I was asking myself whether it is possible to have what we call the Special Needs Bill so that we include everybody like the deaf, the blind, the mute and others, so that we do not have to do legislation per ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope your office will facilitate my temporary status until I fully recover. This is the life that is breathed into Article 54 of the Constitution. I want to bring up another point, I know my colleagues have talked about devolving the training of people with special needs. I am proposing that the national Government gives tax-free for all assistive devices, hearing aids, and any process and even the things that are being used by schools for the deaf in this country should be given tax-free. I know that there is registration of the Inua ---sorry. I ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: As a country, we need to change our attitude; we should not allow our PWDs including the deaf to be at the mercy of charity organisations or people who just feel sympathy for them. The fourth point that I wanted to make on this Bill, and the objects have been well captured, of course, is the issue of tax-free. The issue of stigma; as my colleague has put it across, sometimes, you get such challenges through an accident or as my brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has said advanced age while others are born with it. To ensure we do not ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Teacher Service Commission (TSC) is recruiting new teachers to fill in the gap across the country. We call upon them to ensure that they at least hire a number of interpreters in our schools so that our children get the opportunity. I pray that one day you will walk to a classroom in Starehe Boys Centre or Buruburu Girls, and see a hearing-impaired student sitting in the classroom because there is an interpreter that has been hired by TSC. Mr. Speaker, Sir, over the weekend, I was in Kericho, Ainamoi Constituency where we were burying the ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: I want to warn the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD). I have seen some books that define a family as a man, woman and children. They also define a man with children and a woman with children which are single families. However, they go ahead and put a man and a man and children. Additionally, they go ahead and put a woman and a woman and children and vice-versa. We should not allow KICD to bring bad manners into our society. I want to paraphrase what President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said. The day a man and a man will ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know why the Senator for Mombasa County is heckling. I know he has missed maandamano and hopes that what happens in Bomas collapses. Let us legislate ourselves into the work that we gave ourselves. I know the Senate Minority Leader and Sen. Faki were present there. We do not need to force you to march every day although I know you are physically fit. We had to march from the Senate gate all the way to Milimani law courts because we were fighting over what we should be doing. I know at that time ... view
• 19 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support this Motion and I will make two observations. As a country, we should not be cowards fearing terror. The issue of terrorism is cross-cutting as well as a global one and Kenya is part of it. I agree that it is no longer tenable for our troops to be 260 kms in Somalia. They should come and be along the border. We also need to do an audit because the last regime alleged to have built a wall between Kenya and Somalia. Those are the questions we should be asking how far that ... view