Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

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• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: I believe that this country has immense potential. It can achieve great things that many people would admire to live, work and thrive in. However, corruption, among other things, holds it back. However, I believe the rest are subsets. The biggest challenge we continue to face as a nation is corruption. When EACC wrote to our Justice, Legal Affairs, and Human Rights Committee and made their proposals, I am glad that you listened to them as a committee. I am even happier that at the mediation stage, many of the views that they felt did not agree with the amendments ... view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: That is a story of many Government interventions and programmes that, up to date, this country continues to suffer, be it the county government, national Government, private entities, or even workers on our farms. The fellow you employ to take care of your chicken back in Murang’a, you know they do not appreciate that if the chicken are laying 45 trays of eggs per week and they reduce it to 40, that is a form of corruption. In Kenya, it is considered being street smart. Yet, as Sen. Okiya Omtatah said, and I agree with him, perhaps we should first ... view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I know you do not have your spectacles on but this is Sen. Joe Nyutu and not Sen. Methu. view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: May I proceed? view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this issue should bother us. It must disturb any leader, that we continue to talk about it but there is very little that is being done. A few weeks ago, one of the seven top decision-making members of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) visited the country. As part of the delegation, there was a gentleman whose equivalent in Kenya would be the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I sat next to him at the state banquet that was held in honour of that visiting delegation. We had conversations ... view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: Many people believe, and rightfully so, that unfortunately, the weakest link is our Judiciary. You listen to them many times asking what they should do if investigators do not take to them watertight cases. Give it to them because it is a sound argument. I also would not wish that we jail people who perhaps have just been tried because of their political choices and so on and so forth. You know for a fact and from history that this country has a culture of using the war against corruption to fight political wars. That cannot be taken away. That ... view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: We must speak about these things. We should be concerned even as a House on so many other things that are a subset of corruption. I was just mentioning that specific 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. view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: point on the battle against drug abuse to strengthen or buttress the point that I made earlier that all our societal struggles as a country, stem from corruption. view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: As such, unless and until we can properly address ourselves to the challenge of corruption as a nation, we shall continue to engage in all these battles with very minimal success. I hope that today, once we conclude the passage of this Bill, dear colleagues, we shall send it to the President for his assent next week. EACC can begin their work with strength, zeal, courage and without any further excuse. view
• 27 Feb 2025 in Senate: I believe it is not for lack of good laws. However, we strongly feel that this law is a missing ingredient in their fight against corruption. This is one of the pillars and the areas where we can tighten the noose. Consequently, we will have reduced the proliferation of corruption in our public dealings. view