Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2022 in Senate: 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
• 24 Feb 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, as you assign this Statement to the relevant Committee, I urge you to also remind that Committee that we are waiting for answers for prior Statements that we have sought from them. I support and hope that the people find justice. Thank you. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir. I will be very brief to allow my colleague to move his Bill. I quickly congratulate, Sen. Nyamunga, for this timely Bill, The County Resource Development Bill, 2021. I congratulate her because these are the kinds of Bills that will bring change to our country. Many of our Bills are not economy facing but this is. Therefore, the economic outcomes that this Bill will ensure will go a long way in the socioeconomic sectors that will give our people the dignity and self-determination they need. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the provisions within this Bill for counties to come together to form regional blocs will give them economic viability because some counties are quite small. The fact that they can come together and form a viable economic unit is a good thing. That having been said, I will just add one more thing. For the first time, our counties have to act like governments. What a government does is to ensure it is economically viable so that it can provide services. However, our counties act like departments of the national Government. One level of government should ... view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Waiting for the national Government to disburse funds or counties getting on their knees if they do not get funds from the national Government takes away their legitimacy. A government should provide services to its people, whether or not another entity is enabling that. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: County governments should ensure that they are economically viable. They should work on all the infrastructure and foundational economic indicators to ensure that they run as governments and not as departments of another government. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: 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
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: This Bill will go a long way in ensuring that devolution is entrenched and county governments are not viewed as small departments, as the case is, but big entities. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: I know that Nairobi City County has a huge GDP, but without the subventions from the national Government, we have seen services just come to a halt. What is that GDP all about if when the national Government does not send money, Nairobi City County also stalls? We need to start holding our county governments accountable by looking at every parameter of a government. If they cannot do certain things, then they should not consider themselves as governments but rather departments. view
• 16 Feb 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having said that, I do not want to take too much time. I know that Sen. Murkomen is looking at me with bad eyes. That is one of the issues I wanted to flag out. I congratulate the Senator for her good and economy-facing Bill. view