{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=154756","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=154754","results":[{"id":1565742,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565742/?format=json","text_counter":157,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"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."},{"id":1565743,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565743/?format=json","text_counter":158,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 20 Sen. Omtatah","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I begin by commenting on the Statement by Sen. Karen regarding hawkers. We must realize that hawking is a very important industry in any area or society because only in hawking that you need minimum capital to be able to engage and trade. With Kshs50, you can buy tomatoes and make Kshs100 at the end of the day. We only need to find a way of regulating this industry of quick wealth generation, so that young people can engage in it. Given the low capital requirement, sometimes it is the only area where people are disadvantaged and can engage in some form of enterprise to move forward. On the question of the Kenya Rugby Union, I think, generally, sports in this country have been taken for granted. Sports is no longer just an idle area, but a major industry. In a country that is grappling with employment challenges, very huge unemployment, I think if we gave it the attention it requires, sports should move forward. This culture of utado requires that we go back to law enforcement, which is heavily compromised. The Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) and the police, are so compromised that you find people do what they want and dare you. The time is coming when we should have these organizations called to book. Where there is also this rampant misuse of public funds, we should also hold to account the organizations that are supposed to do the audit. There has been a trend to think that Parliament does audits; it does not. Parliament cannot even change a comma in a report of the Auditor General. The report is final; we can only act on it. Finally, on the question of the youth bulge and the youth challenges in this country, we cannot sweep them under the carpet. Young people have no jobs, no future and nowhere to face. It is time we stopped doing the nonsensical things we are good at doing and focus on changing this country; on making the taxes of this country work for the people. We should stop theft. There is too much theft in this country, right from the top of the Government going down. Everybody is stealing without any fear or shame as the “bull of Nandi” is telling me."},{"id":1565744,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565744/?format=json","text_counter":159,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Kinyua."},{"id":1565745,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565745/?format=json","text_counter":160,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Kinyua","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Asante, Bw. Spika, kwa kunipa fursa hii kuchangia kauli hizi. Ni vizuri ijulikane ya kwamba watu wanaofanya biashara za rejareja wana haki, kwa sababu wanachangia kwa maendeleo ya nchi. Ikumbukwe sisi tukifanya siasa tulisema ya kwamba wale walala hoi, wanapaswa kuangaliwa. Haitakubalika na ni jambo la kuvunja moyo sana, ikiwa wale wanafanya biashara za rejareja hawapewi fursa, wanahangaishwa na kusumbuliwa. Hawawezi wakasimama mahali popote katika Jiji hili au sehemu zozote katika nchi ya Kenya. Kwa hivyo, sisi sote tuna haki ya kufanya biashara mahali popote. Kamati ambayo itashugulikia jambo hili, ijue watu wote wanafaa kupewa uhuru wa kufanya biashara. Iwe biashara kubwa, rejareja au yeyote ile, ikiwa mtu amefuata"},{"id":1565746,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565746/?format=json","text_counter":161,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Kinyua","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"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."},{"id":1565747,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565747/?format=json","text_counter":162,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 21"},{"id":1565748,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565748/?format=json","text_counter":163,"type":"other","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"taratibu za kisheria, anapaswa apewe fursa kama mtu mwingine yeyote ili afanye kazi yake. Bw. Spika, tunamwambia Gavana wa Nairobi vizuri aelewe kwamba, ni juzi tulikuwa na yeye hapa Seneti na alikuwa akitetea hawa wafanyi biashara wa rejareja. Sijui ni nini kimefanyika na akapinduka. Amewafukuza ni kama swara hapa mjini. Hakuna mahali wanaweza keti na kufanya biashara zao. Hawezi kuwatengenezea hata choo na wale wanalipa kodi. Kwa hivyo, ni vizuri hata wao waangaliwe."},{"id":1565749,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565749/?format=json","text_counter":164,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Wambua."},{"id":1565750,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565750/?format=json","text_counter":165,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Wambua","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will make a comment on the Statement by Sen. Karen Nyamu. Karen Nyamu, Senator, I am making a comment on your Statement. It would be important for you to listen, because it is an important statement. On 17th December, 2010, a vendor by the name Mohamed Bouazizi, in a small city in Sidi, Tunisia, set himself on fire outside the Office of the Governor; to the eyes of many people. It was just a vendor who was expressing frustration because of harassment by the city county government at that time. What followed that act led to what today is known as the Arab Spring, which brought down governments in that region. Street vendors are an important segment of any city, any society, anywhere. I do not understand the need for cities to be clean and for us to develop what we are calling smart cities. However, that must be balanced with the need to allow people to earn a living. When you chase street vendors and you get them out of the streets without providing them with alternatives, what exactly are you telling them to do? It is the responsibility of our governments; both local and national governments, to find ways and means of enabling people at the lower segments of the economic pyramid to earn a decent living. Mr. Speaker, Sir, last week, I was having a conversation with the Cabinet Secretary for Cooperatives and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) Development, hon. Wycliffe Oparanya, about the success of the Hustler Fund. I am wondering that on the one hand, the national Government is enabling access to funds for young people to start small little businesses. On the other hand, the City County Government of Nairobi is chasing those very young people from doing their businesses on the streets of Nairobi. What would have been better is for the County Government of Nairobi to provide premises and places where vendors can do decent business. I believe we are way, way past the era of charging young people and women with batons and beating them up to get them out of the streets. I, therefore, call upon our friend, Senator, Governor Sakaja, to rethink that strategy of getting vendors out of the streets. There are better ways of doing it than beating up people and chasing them from the streets."},{"id":1565751,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1565751/?format=json","text_counter":166,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Hon. Kingi","speaker_title":"The Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Sen. Nyutu."}]}