Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1421 to 1430 of 1750.

• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: With so many children out of school at the moment - I hope that this 100 percent transition works, and I am happy for the Government to have put its efforts behind this - we are the 9th country in the world where children were not accessing the transition and, therefore, I am glad we are doing something about it. However, that goes to show that there is a lot more that needs to be done, including legislation from where we sit as legislators to ensure that the social, economic and rights of the children are ensured through frameworks that ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Therefore, our level of spending in education has gradually fallen. As much as we are saying 100 percent transition, if you look at the trend since early 2000, we are spending less and less on education and health, instead relying more and more on donors that are coming in to fill these gaps. It is about time our country puts its own resources, strategies, legislation and mechanisms for ensuring that our children and citizens access the rights enshrined in the Constitution as per Articles 21, 43 and many other Articles in the Constitution to which the Bill gives effect. view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: If you look at the Government spending, and we have talked about that, about 2.6 million people fall into poverty or remain poor due to ill health each year. I know we have talked about people going to India and other many places and that quality health care may not even be available, now, we thank the Government for the push to have National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) cover the poor and all of us so to speak but again, these are areas guaranteed in our Constitution under Article 43, that we need to ensure that we start legislating and ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not want to go to gender inequality; its prevalence as you know, and economic policies. I am not saying that our policies are creating poverty, but inequality is holding back the economic empowerment of women and others will definitely continue to perpetuate these inequalities. view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Despite 96 percent of Kenya’s rural women population working on farms, only 6 percent of women in Kenya hold titles to land. In terms of economic empowerment of women, 96 percent work, and 6 percent ownership. Again, are women being paid for the work they are doing? view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: So, this Bill is going to try and ensure that we start to correct some of these statistics, inequalities and injustices, for different cadres of people that have suffered this. 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
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Extreme poverty is not evitable. It can be legislated; systems and policies can be put in place and this is what this Bill does. It ensures that it provides a framework for counties and national governments to put in place frameworks and mechanisms for the realization of the economic and social rights as set out in Article 43 of the Constitution. It also imposes an obligation to prepare county strategic plans which will provide the county governments with a framework for the implementation of economic and social rights. These rights are tied to functions and powers of the county governments ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: (b) adopt comprehensive strategic plans that ensure the protection and promotion of economic and social rights; (c) integrate, within their respective policies, strategies, actions and such other measures as it would consider necessary for the realisation of the economic and social rights under the Constitution;--- view
• 6 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I will start by congratulating Sen. Wambua. As it has been said, the issue of debts and debt management starts from the national Government itself, where our debts are becoming unsustainable and the counties are doing the same things. What I have noted is that, every county has a County Medium Term Debt Management Strategy. I do not know what those strategies are for, or are they are just pieces of paper that are written to fulfill certain requirements. In the past, we have been told - for instance, ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is that Statement for the Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources? view