Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to second this Report on the inquiry into the LPG explosion in the Mradi area, Embakasi. Embakasi is where I grew up, and whenever such disasters occur, it reminds me that despite my current position of privilege, it may as well have been--- I do not want to conclude whatever I wanted to say. This is a sad affair. We must appreciate the Senate's Standing Committee on Energy for dedicating their time to look into this matter and for ensuring that a report is filed, which I hope can be fully implemented. ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: I hope that during the course of your deliberations as a Committee, you will take the initiative a few months from now to follow up with the state agencies tasked with implementing these proposals. This will ensure that the necessary actions are carried out as intended. I have noted the recommendations for the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), as well as the specific actions required of EPRA and other entities. These include ensuring that those found responsible are charged and brought to book. One of the challenges we continue to face as a country—and one I hope we can overcome ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Secondly, on the matter of EPRA, it has become increasingly evident that where responsibilities are shared between EPRA and county governments, there must be strict adherence to the licensing requirements outlined in the Petroleum Act. The Committee observed the need for a comprehensive review and regular updates of the licensing processes to enhance transparency, efficiency and compliance. Unfortunately, in this country, when Parliament enacts laws on licensing procedures, the monitoring units - whether within county governments or institutions like EPRA - often view these processes as opportunities for financial exploitation, treating them as cash cows. I would not be surprised ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, an LPG storage facility is not a mere tin shack shop. It is big facility that anyone driving along that road would easily notice. Reflecting on the testimonies from when this incident was alive in the country, Citizens Television shared that the facility had been operational for years. People would frequently visit to refill their gas and leave, until this tragic disaster struck. The critical question is what measures EPRA has implemented since the occurrence of this disaster to ensure such incidents never occur again in any part of this country. How have they increased the ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: ensure that so long as somebody is known to them, they do not mind or care about things that are done. There are many problems that people continue to deal with. It is not due to lack of laws that this country continues to face the challenges. Today we are speaking about LPG. You can pick any topic such as nightclubs operating in residential areas. If you walk in this city, there are nightclubs all over, yet there is a county government and the National Environment Management Authority (NEMA). Many times, you will find that for one reason or the ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: I have realised that many times, it takes even ignoring court orders for people to achieve some of the things that have been achieved in this country because there is circus everywhere, from the implementing agencies, to the regulators and eventually law enforcement agencies. Even when people are taken to court, they let are left to go with a slap on the wrist. People bend laws. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: There are so many recommendations to EPRA. Part (b) speaks to what I talked about. This point out that I had not fully read the report but I can see that the committee went into the issue of zoning. They have proposed that a physical inspection should be carried out before issuing any license to ensure that the zoning laws are not breached. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: There are areas where you cannot be allowed to have such a facility. That includes residential areas. If you want to set up an LPG storage facility, there is an expectation that it is in a safe zone, so that if there are incidences such as that one, you do not have members of the public suffering. The committee went into details to speak about that. I hope we will share these recommendations with EPRA and ask them to guide and lead us. view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: There is also a need to compensate victims. It is proposed that the affected victims should be compensated through the National Disaster Management Unit (NDMU) whose main function will be to administer comprehensive emergency and disaster programme in collaboration with stakeholders such as EPRA in order to save lives and property. The committee therefore recommends that this report be dispatched to the following institutions. This is what I spoke to earlier. They include the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), EPRA, NEMA, the Council of Governors (CoG), and Nairobi City County Government, for the purpose of implementing within a period of ... view
• 3 Apr 2025 in Senate: justice. The only way the victims will get justice is when those who were running that facility are brought to book, charged before a court of law and sentenced with murder or manslaughter at the very worse since they knew what they were doing and the dangers therein, so that it serves as a lesson. I will repeat this for emphasis’s sake. So long as people know that you live in a country where even if you break the law nothing happens to you, then there is no motivation to respect the rule of law. That is the biggest challenge ... view