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"content": " Senator for Nandi County, you may proceed."
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"content": "Mr Speaker, Sir, thank you. From the onset, I want to support the Statement by the Senator for Kisii County, Sen. Onyonka. We need to open inquiry into this issue of land disputes. You remember almost six people were killed in Angata Barikoi, Narok County. Up to now, it is sad that those people have been buried and forgotten. No one has been arrested. Even the police officers that turned rogue have never been arrested. I request through the Joint Committee and with your indulgence, under Standing Order No.1, direct the Standing Committee of Lands and National Security to handle this issue of dispute of land and killings. We have so many people who are crying in Angata Barikoi. They have been evicted. Apart from infrastructural evictees, this issue of people being killed, whether it is cultural or it is criminal, to me, are criminal elements. Even as the souls of the six Kenyans who died in Angata Barikoi, and many victims were injured, it is sad that today, there is no progress report on the investigations of the Kenyans who were killed in Angata Barikoi over land dispute in this House. I hope this matter will be handled. I want to challenge the National Land Commission (NLC) because I know the region where he comes from, the coast. We were discussing even about the absentee landlords. This has led to many disputes in the former coast province where you hail from. I think it is of even interest to yourself and other leaders from this region and Rift Valley, that we form a joint committee of the National Land Commission and National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. Secondly and finally, I have read the Statement by the Committee, you need to give direction. There was a petition on compensation of residents affected by the construction of Kamosori-Nyaru Road. It was tabled on 17th July, 2024. It has violated the 60-days rule. You need to be firm and direct that they must prosecute these matters as per the Standing Orders. If we cannot follow our own rules, what will become of us? My Statement on this issue of the Nairobi Expressway has been there from April 2024. We have been told that the Nairobi Expressway is being closed for the next three days. No one knows what the Moja Expressway is collecting from the Nairobi Expressway. Whenever it rains in this City, the Nairobi Expressway normally floods, yet the Committee on Roads and Transportation has not even found it wise--- I do not know whether they need money from the office or approval. We can just walk to the Nairobi Expressway across here and assess it. No one knows how much we are collecting as a country from that expressway, who runs it, and why, when it rains, it is only the Expressway that floods. Of course, 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": "apart from Jogoo Road and many other areas because Nairobi City County is being run like Iraq--- Finally, on the status of roads in Nandi County, I did raise this matter on 15th May, 2024. No one, and you know Nandi County is one of the agricultural counties that we have in this country--- It is sad that we have tea, coffee, milk, vegetables and fruits, yet we cannot access our markets. Our milk is getting spoiled because of the pathetic roads. You need to call this Committee to order. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Roads and Transportation, Sen. Oketch Gicheru, is smiling at who threw him out yesterday, yet I am raising valid questions that he should be listening to, so that you do not need to give directions. We are complaining that the Committee on Roads and Transportation is holding our statements and petitions at ransom without responding in time. Mr. Speaker, you need to go hard, hot and big against committees that do not respond to statements in time. I invite you under Standing Order No.1 with tremendous respect to your office."
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"content": " That matter will be discussed comprehensively at the Senate Business Committee."
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"content": "Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to briefly comment on the Statement by Sen. Hamida Kibwana on the issues of contraceptive methods. She has requested for an adequate quality supply across all the public facilities in the country because of the increased rates of induced post-abortion effects that are in this country. She has provided the data clearly. Nairobi City is leading with close to almost 70 per cent of these abortions. I believe this Statement will come to our Committee. We will deal with it, Sen. Hamida, to ensure that the right measures and procedures are put in place. Mr. Speaker, Sir, allow me to also make my contribution on the indefinite suspension of the County Assembly of Machakos, a statement by Sen. Kavindu. It is a shame and very sad today that county assemblies can close. After the 2022 elections, we were so proud to have female governors whom we call “Machakos and Nakuru girls,” but because the matter is for “Machakos girls,” let me narrow it to that. We were so proud to have a woman governor, a woman Senator, of course a Woman Representative, and a woman Speaker. That beautiful leadership, the way it has been, has now turned into difficult political issues. It has come to a point that the Speaker has to direct that the County Assembly adjourns indefinitely, citing threats to her life and to the life of the other Members of the County Assembly, definitely the ones who are opposing her impeachment. This is a shame to women leadership. It is a high time that they to sat down, resolve their political differences and offer the services to the people of Machakos. Mr. Speaker, Sir, where I sit as the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget, as we speak, we have suggested Kshs465 billion through the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Machakos County, I guess is asking about Kshs9.5 billion. So, definitely, they would be getting more money. 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": "If the County Assembly of Machakos County cannot pass their budgets, how are they going to offer services to the people of the county who elected them and ensured in those offices? They are still earning salaries, yet they have adjourned their sessions. They had a calendar which was well stipulated that was to go up to the 14th May, 2025. It is wrong. It is wrong in the sense that the mwananchi suffers because of political issues. Those women leaders, that is the Governor, Women Representative, Senator and the Speaker of that County Assembly, should show leadership, come together, and resolve the political issues. I do not see why she should be impeached because it is taking the issues where they now are. I submit."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the chance. I would like to reflect on the Statement by Sen. Hamida on the use of contraceptives and how it is related to unintended pregnancies and abortions. This is a very important matter because it is right at the heart of the productive age of our women. Without reproductive women, there can be no country called Kenya 10 to 20 years from now. I, therefore, appeal to the Senator to consider using her resources and office, so that access to contraceptives is not misused, abused and misunderstood. Contraception by way of the modern methods is something which is foreign to us. The owners of those methods had an original intention of controlling the populations of the black Africa. As we allow women access to these contraceptives, we must accompany it with adequate education. I firmly believe that a woman who should take contraception should have a minimum of three children to start with. Secondly, that the traditional methods running from cultural rights to family care should be able to help girls not get the so-called unintended pregnancies. Lastly is post-abortion care. Eighteen counties, as we speak this afternoon, among them Kakamega and Machakos doctors, are on strike. These young people get this abortion every day. Post-abortion care is always a life-threatening, emergency and can only be handled surgically by a competent doctor. So, the fact that there are no doctors, means that young women are dying in Machakos and Kakamega and the other hospitals of those 18 counties. The Senate must move with speed to ensure that these doctors are back into the hospitals by putting pressure on governors who prefer to spend money on living large. Mr. Speaker, Sir, can you imagine the Governor of Kakamega does not want to pay doctors, and the other day, he bought for himself an armored car – Lexus – for Kshs54 million. Not that we cannot drive that kind of vehicle, but who would want to kill him? I assure the Governor of Kakamega that his life is not under threat. He is wasting our money. Let him use those millions of shillings to pay our doctors. We are waiting for him. He is being very unkind. We cannot allow governors to spend money on luxury instead of paying our doctors. I was looking at the proposed budget estimates, and the Government wants to ask us to allow only a paltry Kshs1.7 billion for the doctors who keep on walking around the streets here. That money is not enough to get those doctors back, to address their salaries 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": "in arrears and to address their needs for promotion. We require Kshs4 billion, which is not too much that we can allow our patients to be dying like animals. Mr. Speaker, that is why the Senate was created. We insist that governors must be called to order."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to contribute to the Statement by Sen. Shakila on the LAPSSET issue in Lamu County. It is very important to note that taking land away from our citizens without any form of compensation or relocation directly disenfranchises the citizens and, therefore, denying them their dignity. We have a similar issue of the Yamo Dam, which is in the village I come from and which I have spoken about on several occasions in this House. After the construction of the dam, the compensation has been a headache up until now. Even worse, the piping of this water went through several farms, including for my neighbours. After telling them there was no compensation, there were huge piping holes that were in these farms that caused soil degradation and which affected the environment because most were farming areas. During this rainy season, our neighbours ended up not planting any crops because of the effect of the holes that were dug in their farms. It is sad that the Government does not understand that where their freedom ends, the rights of the citizens begin. Mr. Speaker, Sir, our mandate as legislators is to protect and represent the citizens who elected us to these Houses. When it comes to rural electrification, the LAPSSET, the construction of roads, dams and other social amenities, we have the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources that sits in Nairobi in a committee room discussing these issues yet, we have a lot of issues that revolve around land belonging to citizens being taken away under the guise that whatever is happening on that land will benefit citizens. We know that but we also know that when you take away land belonging to someone, that directly lowers their dignity and makes them squatters. We are living at such times when there is barely any idle piece of land. I, therefore, urge the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources should be on their toes, moving from county to county, addressing these issues including the Oljorai matter, which I have been talking about in this House. We had the Committee sit on the same issue today. We need this Committee to go to the grassroots in order to get the views and know where the shoe is pinching. They will then come back and tell people that, indeed, this is how a certain matter should be approached. I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir."
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