Abshiro Soka Halake

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• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Report from the Standing Committee on Health. This is a sad situation. It is not only sad for that particular person, but the fact that this is rampant everywhere since our hospitals have become callous, they cannot treat anybody and people are suffering in this country. At the Kenyatta National Hospital, recently we saw health workers on strike. People had to go and literally treat their people. How many of those have died? In my county Isiolo, many people have had their arms and limbs amputated because of negligence. People ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. As the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee on ICT, I am taking note of what my colleagues are saying. I would like to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Mbito for alerting us to the importance of PPPs, especially with regard to digital economy. There are very many challenges with regard to the issue of digitization and leaving certain counties behind. The country has the national digital blueprint, which is supposed to be the broad framework within which our developmental needs, partnerships The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: and our initiatives are strategically supposed to be domiciled and from there, cascaded all the way to our counties. Unfortunately, in the last week that we had a meeting with the Council of Governors (CoG) with regard to the digital economy, the awareness of the national digital blueprint, they seemed unaware of it. The Ministry needs to make sure that when it comes to ICT, they do not think that it is just a national issue but that counties should be involved. On the other hand, there are so many other parameters such as power, for instance, that affects the ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the Senator for Kericho County in order to threaten and intimidate a Member of this august House? view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is my elder brother from Turkana in order to speak Kiturkana in this Chamber, a language that is not understood by some Members? view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Petition by Mr. Ogana to the Senate. A good solution has been suggested by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. that we must find a different way of dealing with petitions that pertain to land and 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
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: boundary issues. I served in the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I can confirm that the Committee receives a lot of petitions that are land and boundary related. The boundary disputes and conflicts are so rampant that I suspect the Committee will be overwhelmed with these kinds of petitions. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: This House has to look for a different ways of dealing with boundary related disputes. Even if this Petition is channeled to a different Committee of the Senate, we must think of a different way of dealing with this issue. What usually happens is that the Committee will summon the Ministry of Lands and Physical Planning, the National Land Commission (NLC), and consider all the provisions in law and commissions. Everyone will just ping-pong between the different place. The Ministry will point the Committee to NLC while the NLC will point the Committee to the Ministry and the ping-pong will ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and the report of the Ad Hoc Committee of Senate on measures to oversight the response to COVID-19. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as you have been told, this Committee had had - I think I will correct my Chair - 94 sittings and 95 as of yesterday. In the 94 sittings, as you have been told, this Committee did have so many oversights, representation, legislative interventions and initiatives that could not have been possible without the good leadership of our Chairperson. I would like to thank ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: quarantine, to isolation to universal access to community health issues, day time statistics, and even to some of the issues around projections. We made sure that we kept the ball on that area. The thematic areas of access, finances and thematic area of social economic, this Committee, as you remember, was in the news for having supported the most vulnerable people in our informal settlements to ensure that the land laws did not chase them away or did not throw them out. I know that was a bit controversial but that did a great deal to ensure that the dignity ... view