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"content": "I want to inform Sen. Cherarkey so that he does not belabour responding to that issue. The point of contention is that when committee visits me as governor, I want a situation where a visit to my office does not look like it is the central theme of the committee being in the county. That is exactly what we are saying. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even the photos that are circulated on the walls of the committees and the individual members, a lot more of those photos are for the visit to the governor and not the facilities. Especially for the Committee on Health, there are so many dysfunctional health facilities in every county that a minute spent with a governor is a waste of precious time. That is what we are saying."
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"content": " Conclude your comments."
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when they go visiting a governor, people end up taking a lot of time, even one hour, that should have been used to visit some of the facilities. One funny thing is that after the event, you see some colleagues of ours, with all due respect, putting a caption that the governor has promised to improve, yet they have not visited those facilities. On the Committee on Energy, please, let Mandera and Northern Kenya access KP and the national grid. It is unfortunate that Mandera has only one functional generator that goes off because of the heat every time. That it is very unfortunate KP must be called out, that Kenyans in Mandera have equal chance like Kenyans in Nairobi, in the spirit of Broad-Based Government where we want to bring equity, equality, fairness and transparency, even in terms of energy distribution in this country. 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": "So, I want to commend the committee led by Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga who is our face and the architect of the Broad-based Government and one of the “youth leaders” of this country. I congratulate him for telling off Governor Orengo. I saw Sen. Sifuna saying something today about the Broad-based Government. He should be careful because when Sen. (Dr.) Oburu speaks, it is Rt. hon. Raila Odinga who speaks. With those many remarks, I support all those statements."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This afternoon I rise to add my voice to the various statements, the Energy Committee statement and the Budget and Finance Committee statement. Before I go into any issue, I want to remind Kenyans and the Members of this House that the Senate does a lot of work. We do a lot of thorough investigations and inquiries. We put together reports and submit them on the Floor of the House. We debate the reports and then adopt as work output. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to remind the Members of this House that we have certain issues that we have deliberated on and placed reports. We had the Shakahola issue which was very controversial. We went down to the grassroots level, did investigations, the committee tabled a report, we adopted the recommendations, the report is there. The Committee on Energy have given a summary of their work. They also dealt with the explosion in Mradi, where lives were lost. They have given the recommendations and tabled the reports. You remember the issue of Governor Natembeya and his deputy that was at that time a very serious issue for the people of Trans-Nzoia County. The report is here, tabled. We had Members of this House going to the USA to follow on the victims of the 1998 bomb blast. We even had budgets for them. They went to the USA, spoke to victims. Recommendations were put and the report was tabled. Nobody is asking why nothing is being done after tabling the reports. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even as we are interrogating all these reports by the Budget and Finance Committee and the Energy Committee and all other committees, is our work here in Senate, the ‘Upper’ House, to just table reports? We have continuously asked that we be given a committee to follow up on the implementation of all the reports that we have in this House. That way we can even know whether the victims of the Mradi explosion, which the Energy Committee has told us is here, were actually taken care of. It saddens me, as a Member of this House, that all our work will be filed in the basis or in the form of a report and the legacy of this House is just reports that are being tabled. Will we continue to sit and table reports or are we actually going to push that we become part of the implementation of these reports?"
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"content": "Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am lost for words. I am speaking on the contributions made in respect of the report on health. I do not know what is biting the former governor of Mandera and what is biting the current Senator of Nandi. What is wrong with a committee going into a county and having a sitting with the governor and actually affording an opportunity to field questions that will enrich their 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": "report? It is not the responsibility of the committee to babysit any governor. They should go and ask him hard questions, like what is obtaining in Nandi. It would be gross failure if the Committee on Health would go to Nandi and fail to interview the governor. It is so serious that in Kakamega, as I speak now, doctors are on strike. It is so serious that in Kakamega, the governor, through his chief officer, Dr. David Alilah, is trying to teach doctors corruption. When this committee goes there, it is time for them not only to talk to the governor about these issues that I am about to raise, but also afford me an invitation so that I sit through the meeting. People of Kakamega are wondering how imprest is paid to medical facilities in excess of the requisition made by the superintendent of the hospital. Upon receipt, the medical superintendent is rung by Alilah who then asks for the excess on the authority to incur expense to be taken back to him. Butere Hospital, Malava Hospital, Iguhu Hospital at Butere and Malava the doctors were asked to remit a refund of Kshs10 million in each of those two hospitals. In Iguhu, Kshs6 million. The transfer of the money to Dr. Alila was done on 20th October, 2024 in the afternoon. These are things we know. We want the committee to scare these governors for them not to teach my fellow medical professionals an ounce of corruption."
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"content": " Very well. Let us now hear from Sen. Veronica Maina."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for distinguishing whether my neighbour or I should speak first. I also thank you for the opportunity. Sen. Kisang’ will wait and abide until I finalize. I want to support the report and the statements that have been presented to this House this afternoon. I want to single out the very elaborate Report that has been presented by the Chairperson of the Committee on Energy, a committee that I am a Member of. I want to single out the issues that have been raised here, especially the issue of the LPG explosion that occurred in the Mradi area where 11 lives were lost and 280 people involved. Many people were actually injured during this incident. I sit in this committee, but allow me to say this. In many jurisdictions, such explosions are taken to be serious accident incidents. Their policy framework enables people who have suffered from such incidences to be compensated very quickly and very adequately. They do not do that because it is the tidiest position for any country to be in, but they do it because it is only the right thing to do. The policy framework would ensure that any actors in this sector are adequately insured. It would also ensure that the insurance is responsive. We want to call out the insurance companies that cover companies and institutions dealing with oil and gas. It is high time for us, as a nation to have a full proof policy. I want to remember an incident that occurred about two decades ago in Mombasa with Kenya Petroleum Refinery. That company was insured by insurance companies based abroad. Those insurance companies came to Kenya and actively hunted for every victim and family that had suffered a loss. They hunted for them to ensure that 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": "compensation was adequately done and not under calculated. Those insurance companies did that for the victims and their families to feel that the burden is a bit eased off. Thange village in Makueni County has suffered an oil spill since 2015 which has caused many cases of diabetes, liver and kidney disease among---"
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