Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 9 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to celebrate and mourn our national hero, Mr. Joe Kadenge. May his soul rest in peace. I also want to congratulate my friend, Sen. Khaniri, for bringing this Statement which will allow us to give him the prominence that he deserves. I do not want to repeat what has been said. We need to introspect on how we treat our heroes. We should not look at it from the Government’s perspective but we should look at it as individuals. In many parts of the world, people do not depend on the Government ... view
• 9 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Amendment Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I congratulate her because this is a very timely amendment to the Public Finance Management Act (PFM). It is simply because devolution is not just about the political and administrative aspect, but also the decentralisation of the fiscal or financial as well. Over time, we have seen a decline in own-revenue collection by counties, and we do not know the exact cause; we could easily speak of many things. I know that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) singled out the revenue system as ... view
• 9 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the tax collection incentives and opportunities for other things is very high in own-source revenue collection points. The fact that this amendment proposes a performance-based revenue collection system, where if a county does not collect revenue within two years of the passing of these amendments, then there will be sanctions and consequences for not achieving the target. As we speak, counties are setting such low targets and not achieving them as well. Setting the low target is meant to subvert the idea that they need to work hard to achieve it. At the same time, the low ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the Statement by our Senate Majority Leader and the Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Finance and Budget. I want to state categorically that the National Assembly is on a mission to create a very toxic environment in which they want to grab power. The power is given by the Constitution. By rubbishing the sovereignty of the people that have given us the power and the supremacy of this Constitution in Article 2, we must then go to the Article 3 to defend this Constitution. ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in Senate: extension of the Executive. In fact, they are misleading the Executive. History will judge them harshly if they continue on that trajectory. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the country needs to decide what their attitude towards devolution is. Do they want devolution or not? It is not the National Assembly to decide, but the people of Kenya who have given us the mandate. Kenyans by virtue of Article 1 of the Constitution have given us the sovereign power and delegated to us the powers, as Parliament, the National Executive and the Judiciary. The Supremacy of the Constitution of Kenya is also ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. I rise to support this important Motion. Listening to Sen. (Dr.) Ali whom I congratulate for this timely Motion, I was reminded of the fact that our priorities as a country are somewhat warped. Since when has investment in our human capital become a commodity on which we attach interest? It is about time we rethought how we look at our investments. This is not a loss. How does the Ministry of Education put Kshs7.2 billion loss on the book of HELB for something as important as an investment in ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in Senate: that has returns in many different ways. It makes sure that educated people contribute to the socio-economic wellbeing of this country. Therefore, looking at this in the narrow presume of interest is missing the point. I urge our Government to zero-rate the taxation of an investment of this nature. We have seen that investment to housing gets a rebate for saving and creating wealth. Why not get a rebate for investment into education? We are getting it wrong as a nation if we start to look and punish our students for their loans and the interest charged. I am for ... view
• 3 Jul 2019 in Senate: I do not wish to speak too much on this issue, because it is about the inequalities in our country. The system seems to be leaving the most deserving behind because that borders abuse of rights. As it has been said before, the right to education is guaranteed in Article 43(f) of the Constitution. Therefore, every child born in this country has a right to education. Therefore, they do not have to be punished for the rest of their lives because there are no jobs. This is an emotional issue for some of us because we know that we cannot ... view
• 2 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker--- view
• 2 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Deputy Speaker. I will not comment on that, but thank you for giving me the opportunity to comment on this important amendment to the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) Bill. I would like to congratulate Sen. Seneta very much because many of our legislations and Acts are still reading as though counties do not exist. It is about time this House took stock and an inventory of all Bills for their alignment to the Constitution and also for the acknowledgement of the fact that we have two levels of Government as we speak. Health, as everybody has ... view