Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: It is proper that we are now legislating and giving counties the ability to domesticate this via their county assemblies and declare certain public spaces to be vending zones, which people can access after being charged the agreed amount of money. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Clause 11 is crucial. It states that county governments shall provide essential facilities. It is not enough to just say that hawkers in this town can go and sell their goods in a particular space. This law ensures that they are provided with essential facilities, for it to be considered a proper market. You cannot just point at a particular public space and say that is a market. You must provide access to clean water, clean toilet and a place where people can go about their private businesses. There needs to be a solid waste disposal mechanism. You need to ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, sometimes half-hearted solutions are worse than even no solution. It is better that when you decide to solve a particular problem, you solve it wholeheartedly. That is the spirit of this Bill. County governments are being challenged that when they set up a vending zone, they should also provide all the essential facilities that will ensure that the businesses of these people thrive. They should not treat it like a nuisance. In essence, I guess that is what this Bill is telling us. Do not treat these people as if they are a bother and, therefore, you ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: most important aspects of this Bill that has been included that I find to be extremely brilliant. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Of course, the issue of cost comes up. This is not a free licence to counties to extort as much as they can out of this group of Kenyans. It will not be a shocker if you hear that certain counties want to charge this group of Kenyans, as much as they charge the main business people for a vending licence. It should be a minimal amount because these are people who, after all, are not taking much public space. They do not have much ability to pay the amount of goodwill that is required to be paid for one ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Therefore, the fee that will be charged, much as we cannot specify the amount, should be left to each county assembly, as they do their annual finance Bills. It is the assumption - I hope our county assemblies are able to do this - that the fees that will be charged to this group of Kenyans will be barely enough for county governments to operate without inhibiting business and growth. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: The kind of attitude that we have towards our business people tells so much why, as a country, we cannot thrive. Regarding these multinational businesses that have set up camp in Kenya, sometimes we even have to send high powered delegations led even by our President, to try and convince them to set up business in Kenya. Some small-scale vendors who were given a conducive environment, encouraged to trade and given Government subsidies, today, are huge corporations and brands across the globe. Every huge success story that you read out there started from somewhere. Some of the biggest companies that ... view
• 1 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. My good friend, the Senator for Lamu, has brought a very serious issue to this House. I have noticed a certain trend in this House; unfortunately, the rest of the country takes us very seriously, save for us ourselves. It is either that we do not believe how powerful an institution we are, or we are sometimes too casual about how we treat many of these issues that are brought here. The reason I say this is because last week, as the Committee on Energy, Roads and Transportation, we made an enquiry about the oil ... view
• 1 Oct 2019 in Senate: This points to the fact that any issue that is brought by members of the public – by way of a Petition or a Statement by my colleagues – should never be treated casually. We should always endeavor to ensure that we follow any particular issue brought before us to its most logical conclusion. On this issue that Sen. Loitiptip has brought before us, it will be important for us, as Sen. Wetangula has said, as the representatives of the people, to understand what the overall Government policy on police reservists is. Why is it that certain sections of this ... view
• 1 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view