Senator Abshiro Halake is a nominated member of the Senate focusing on the special interest of women and other vulnerable groups including, youth, people with disabilities and other marginalized groups.
3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker.
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, is the hon. Member in order to insinuate and think that poor people do not deserve chess? How much is a chess board? It costs either Kshs2,000 or less. It is misleading and unfair for us to say that chess is romantic just because we are Senators. That statement should be expunged from the records of this House.
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity. I support this Statement by Sen. Cherargei. I also would like to argue that as we look at the agriculture sector that deserves every subsidy, the people of Northern Kenya, who are
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the report by the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare and congratulate them for the fine job that they have done. The issues around the inhumane and degrading conditions that
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
Yes, I would like to be informed.
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
I thank Sen. Sakaja. This is the reality. We cannot just be repatriating dead bodies back home. We should be providing protection because our people‟s lives matter. Anybody has a right to work anywhere in or outside this country. It is their international right to do so. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Philippines has put mechanisms in place for labour export. As Senators have said, it is the number one earner of their external revenue and foreign exchange. International labour migration is a legitimate and dignified way of earning a living, but what is not okay is for our country ...
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have had the pleasure of working with Sen. Sakaja in the ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya, and I know he cares enough to have supported the protection of migrants, the people who had gone out of the country and could not come back at the height of Covid-19 pandemic. In the last few months, you would find in those detention centres that people had contracted COVID-19 and there are videos to this. He has talked about the addendums that are part of this.
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3 Nov 2021 in Senate:
The Human Rights Watch has compiled cases of people where they have contracted COVID-19 within the detention centres with no services provided and with the country not even aware. You will never hear a citizen of the United States of America or Canada or any of these countries being put in those detention centres. The reason being that the consular sections of these organizations and these countries are on top of the welfare of their citizens. It is about time we also did that. There is no reason as to why we pump so much money into our foreign offices. ...
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21 Oct 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Petition by the PWDs from Migori County. The issue of mainstreaming of special interest groups has become important especially to those of us that are activists for these groups. We are seeing a situation where people are paying lip service to PWDs, to women, youth and all other special interest groups. Our documents are made in such a way that they are beautiful and have all the disability mainstreaming mechanisms, gender mainstreaming mechanisms and youth mainstreaming mechanisms yet we find that these are just words. No budget has been allocated such as ...
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21 Oct 2021 in Senate:
Every county has very beautifully written County Integrated Development Plans. Those plans do not have budgets accorded to them especially when it comes to the special interested groups. It is very disturbing to find that 10 years after the Constitution of Kenya 2010 was passed, we still see people paying lip service, writing documents that they do not intend to implement and do not even allocate resources to.
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