Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this chance. I also make my contribution and share my thoughts about this extremely important Bill. In my opinion, it is one of the best we have ever considered. It is not that there is any Bill brought before this House which is not important, but this speaks to the very core duty of what leadership is all about. Leadership is about making the lives of those that queue on election day and give us a chance to represent them in this House easy. The true nod in terms of what a leader should ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: You remember about all this hullabaloo that has been going round in the past two days; it is actually an uproar by many of our young people who are looking up to us, as leaders. They said that when you have people gather, pay for very expensive meals and book a huge press conference to launch a strategic plan – like they were doing for the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) – only to announce to the young people that, “we are coming after you because you have not paid your HELB loans.” This tells you that something is not ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Therefore, because we are leaders, it is not our duty; it is not in our place to lament or cry foul each and every time we get the Floor in the House of Parliament. However, our duty is to do actual work, like the work that has gone into the thinking of this Bill, where we are now thinking about the ways that we can ensure that we put to task the Executive, because we are the Legislature. It is unfortunate and you cannot blame the citizens of this country. When things do not work, you even do not want ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Director (MD); all you know is that these are leaders, and leaders are supposed to fix problems. Therefore, when you get to that point as things are in this country right now, what should be of primary concern to us, as legislators, is how much are we doing our work to the best of our abilities such that we ensure that that which is within our purview, as Members of Parliament, is done? Therefore, it is important that we enact such legislation, with very good proposals being prescribed here in this particular Bill, so that we ensure that the people ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: If you read from history, we are aware that many of the societies that were a decent franchise and are no longer now living peacefully, it is because it started by the denial of economic and social rights. Therefore, this is a very important Bill because we are talking about something which, if we do not guarantee in the next five to ten years; with a bulging youth population that is hugely under the age of 30, a time will come where it will no longer be possible. People will even begin to see and build internal hate against leaders ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: A few minutes later, I saw somebody looking for me and he told me; ‘excuse me, Sir, you gave me more than enough. Please, take back your money.’ The biggest question in my mind at that time was; ‘how do such societies get to the place where their citizens live honest and decent lives?’ The truth of the matter is that it is not complicated. That is a society where you are assured that you do not need to have all the money in the world to access the basics of life. That is where the problem begins. You will ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: The Inua Jamii Programme is now being rolled out by the Government. The truth of the matter is that that money is too little and inconsistent. Perhaps, the elderly get it three or four times a year, if they are lucky. Many of them have been enrolled to that particular programme. When you look at Paragraph (5) of Part II of this Bill, perhaps there are seven parameters that are listed. A good place to start from would have been a status report. We need to be told how we are doing based on the seven parameters which are education, ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: plane has not touched the ground, you have to look for another alternative. That is how serious people take the issue of economic and social rights. For us as a country, many of our young people have to live lives that are secondary, as opposed to enjoying decent lives because of poverty. The Commission should collect, disseminate and let people know their rights. They should know that when I get to the village as a Senator, I can let the people that elected me to know what they are guaranteed constitutionally and nobody should treat it like it is a ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many things that I would have wished to say but in the interest of time, I see the warning is up. I appreciate the good work that has gone into the thinking of this particular Bill. My only hope is that, finally, when this Bill is passed and it becomes law, we shall monitor and ensure that these good thoughts that have been put here, change the lives of our people. Otherwise, it will just be another good piece of legislation, like the many that we have passed but there is no way of enforcing ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: With those very many remarks, I support. view