Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: sufficient opportunity for him to thrive and live out to his full abilities. Cost of living and such related issues featured prominently under that subtopic. Implementation of the two-thirds gender rule featured in the discussion. This is one of the areas where I am disappointed in the report. Therefore, we will have to make a bipartisan decision. We thought we had cracked it, but at the last minute, there were certain changes in views and perspectives about the topic. I believe this House is not lacking men and women who believe in this gender inclusivity conversation. At the time of ... view
• 20 Feb 2024 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 Feb 2024 in Senate: they celebrate is that Kenya has made serious strides and progress over the last couple of decades on the topic of devolution. The institution and the House that chaperones, guides and ensures that we have successful implementation and rollout of devolution in our country is the Senate. Therefore, how do you provide balance to such a House? There are good proposals that have been made and is part of what has gone to the statutory instruments. There are ways in which you can compensate the Senate view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in other countries, the term of the Senate is longer than that of the ‘‘Lower” Houses. There is a proposal to do that in the Republic; make the Senate serve a longer term than the provided five years as a way of compensating for it. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: No, relax. That is only on the second topic. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the third item that we are considering is fidelity to political parties, coalitions and the law of multiparty democracy. From the history of Parliament, you know that in the penultimate days of this House’s last term, an amendment to the Political Parties Act was brought to this House. It was hurriedly rushed through Parliament in the same way that we normally do some of these laws and we are told not to amend anything. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: I remember that afternoon quite well. We were told that there is distinction; an animal called a coalition political party and this and the other. Hardly six months after that, there were serious disagreements over issues of funds, how to share the political party fund, how to define leadership positions and so on and so forth. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: I have been in this House though not for too long. I have seen three elections now in this House. The unfortunate thing is that we, as parliamentarians and practicing politicians, sometimes make certain decisions that disadvantage us later on. One of the things that we always do a few months to every election, I saw this in January, 2017 and in 2022 as well, is we make amendments to the Political Parties Act to suit temporary political interests. Then immediately after, when things change, we come back to the House and cry. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: There is no better time to have a sober conversation about how to run our political parties than right now. It is my hope that in the statutory instruments that we are provided with, colleague Senators will take time to enrich proposals of how to better manage our political parties. This is because we are the consumers of these policy decisions that we make in our political parties. view
• 20 Feb 2024 in Senate: The fourth item was the entrenchment of various funds into the Constitution. That is the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) and the Senate Oversight Fund. There were conversations later on with proposals and petitions being made to us about the Ward Fund, but it was the eventual thinking of the committee that we better handle it at statute, as opposed to elevating it to a constitutional fund like the other three. view