Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Last week, officers of the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) visited me in my office and asked what we should do. They tried to access Sierra Leone area, but officers of the KFS who have been deployed there by Cabinet Secretary (CS), Mr. Keriako Tobiko, and the Rift Valley Regional Commissioner, Mr. George Natembeya, denied them entry. How can you deny 15 commissioners who have been given the opportunity to look into issues of violations of human rights a chance to look into violations that people in that particular area are facing? I want to tell them on ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: They are talking about a 60-day notice. However, if you ask them to show you the 60-day notice so that you appreciate what they are talking about, it is not there. These are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: people who thrive in chaos and impunity of the highest order because they know it is convenient. They have convinced people that the discussion is between those who want people to live in the forest and those who do not. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: I am not an idiot because I am well educated. I cannot possibly advocate for anyone to live inside a forest, but when you hear me say those people have not invaded the forest, it is not politics because I know what I am saying. I hope the President will respond to our cries because I stood there on 27th July, 2017, with none other than President Uhuru Kenyatta and we promised those people that eventually we will provide a solution to the issue of the Mau Forest. However, up to date, I have not heard his voice; I want ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: I congratulate Sen. Silvia Kasanga. We will join her as she moves the kind of proposals that have been proposed on the Forest Conservation and Management Act. In fact, a final proposal is: Why is it specific that we have to say Kenya Forest Service officer have got to be drawn from the different parts of this country and sent to a particular region? Just a minute, Madam Temporary Speaker, as I conclude this point that I am mentioning--- view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it not possible to have, say, a particular region, for example Kitui, to produce their own gallant young men and women who will be trained at the Kenya Forest Service Training School and be deployed back to Kitui to take care of their forests because it is their rural heritage? As long as you are bringing someone from Garissa or Kisumu to take care of my forest in Kitui, they will allow all the multinationals to sell the timber; after all, it is not their home. Therefore, that is an amendment that I want ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, that is not what I meant. I would wish to inform my colleague that this particular Motion is about Community Forest The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in Senate: Associations; how you get the participation of a specific community to take care of their forest? That is why I was suggesting that these communities should get young people and have them trained at the Kenya School of Forest Conservation as forest officers, and redeployed back to their communities to do conserve the forests there. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Ad hoc Committee inquiring into the challenges facing the tea sector in Kenya laid on the Table of the Senate on Thursday, 25th July, 2019. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: This is the work of a Committee that I was privileged to chair. It comes at a very important time when there is hue and cry all over the country because of the challenges that are being experienced in the tea sector. view