6 Jun 2023 in Senate:
are the ceilings that we are putting in our various county assemblies? You know the politics that goes with it. You know the fight that came about until we did an amendment to the Public Finance Management Act to separate the accounts of county assemblies with those of the county executive members. Unfortunately, it has gone through very difficult times. It is until petitions are brought to this House that they benefit from some of these things. Mr. Speaker Sir, I recall in our first term of this House, MCAs appeared before the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. ...
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very interesting Petition. I wish the petitioners had attached as part of the documents that came with the Petition--- I am talking about Legal Notice No.4 of 2019, where this decision was made and sought to be anchored in law. It is unfortunate that it has held so since 2019 to date. If you go to Moi University, Town Campus, you will see the kind of interaction that trainee doctors have with practicing doctors at the hospital. That is trainee doctors from Moi University, School of Medicine and doctors practicing at Moi ...
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
If you have had the opportunity to visit patients at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH), you know that if you take those infamous lifts mostly in afternoons, you will find people with badges stating they are trainee doctors. They will be in the company of about two or three senior practicing doctors. That is all that these students from Kenyatta University are asking of us. That their trainee doctors get to practice, train and learn alongside their professional seniors. Unless there is something beyond good reason, as Sen. Sifuna says and I agree with him entirely, save for the fact that ...
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My question is similar to what Sen. Chute has asked. However, I will put a slight amendment and say that one life is too many already. When you lose a school going child, even if it is just one, it should gather the collective rage of the Ministry of Education and all those who are responsible. I have heard the Cabinet Secretary respond to Sen. Chute and state that there are guidelines that have been put in place to guide the schools on how food handling is done; a guide that will prevent a similar ...
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would not wish to be drawn to the previous utterances, but as fathers in this House, we shall revisit at the right time.
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
These are two important Petitions that have been brought before the House. First, it is the Petition by Sen. Mariam Omar on behalf of Mihango residents. I know Mihango well because I grew up not very far from there. Perhaps, as I young child, I played football close to where Sen. Mariam Omar talked about. To be in this House this afternoon would be gross abuse of the premium position or privilege that I have as a Member of Parliament (MP), to just rant and say that this is wrong. It should not have happened and expect that things remain ...
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31 May 2023 in Senate:
It is clear that these violations continue to happen so many times, for want of good laws. I believe that that will be good justice so that we never sit here on another afternoon to just lament then go and have mandazi and go home.
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