Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 4401 to 4410 of 5156.

• 2 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will be brief as directed. The prayer by the petitioners is very interesting, when you listen to the challenges that residents of Wajir County have had to go through because of the challenge of refuse removal and waste management. If you follow keenly on the challenges that many county governments continue to face, you will realise that the issue of waste management is not unique to Wajir Town alone. Almost all county governments, without fail, have not been able to handle this menace. Part of it is because of the amount of investment ... view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. The Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare has brought an important issue. Unlike on previous occasions where we, as Members of Parliament (MPs), had not been in consonant with the Executive side of Government in their attempt to do 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
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: one or two things, if there is an area that requires a broader spectrum view to the issues that are before us, then it is this issue. view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I know for a fact and as they say, figures do not lie. You only need to look at our current Budget and see the amount of money we spend on remunerations benefits only a few people in the country. We have about 700,000 public servants in a country of almost 50 million people. Out of revenue collections of Kshs1.4 trillion, close to Kshs800 billion goes to funding these particular individuals. We, as a country, must have a holistic view to this issue. I am not opposing it just for the sake of opposing, but we must ... view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. My point is that we need to do a qualitative analysis to this process. We must ensure that 50 million of us citizens of this country get value for the taxes that we pay. As at now, the truth is that we do not. Every Kenyan pays taxes, but very few of us access public service courtesy of spending almost three-quarters of our revenue collection on paying public wages alone. view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: It will, therefore, be important that when the CS tables that policy before us, as we consider it, we look at it with those facts in mind. For example, it will be of interest to us to know that there are almost 300 parastatals in this country, but if you gave Senators a blank piece of paper this afternoon and asked them to list the parastatals that offer valuable service to Kenyans, very few of them will go above 10 or 20. There are so many institutions that were either rendered moribund or are no longer useful to the kind ... view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: I urge that we look at this issue with a broad and open mind. The only thing that I warn against is that a trend is emerging in this Government where in the pursuit of what is considered to be public good, citizens end up suffering. We, as citizens, have continued to cheer them on and say we support what the Government is doing because it either makes our country better, or we have a sadistic view to life. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me take an example of what happened to the residents of Nkoroi. Their houses were demolished and ... view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: to celebrate it because it is in the pursuit of global good. There cannot be global good when private or individual human rights are being trampled upon. Therefore, I urge my colleagues in that particular Committee to address the concerns of those Kenyans. view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: I watched with a lot of pain and imagined what a father would do if he returned home and he is not able to explain to his 10 year old son why they do not have a place to call home anymore. As this demolition was going on, we could see police officers supervising. How did we sink so low as a country to a point where police officers can now supervise illegalities and demolitions that have not been sanctioned by courts? It is a bad trend which, if we do not speak against it as a Parliament, shall continue. ... view
• 20 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, Senate Majority Leader is interrupting my contribution. Yet, if there is--- view