Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 621 to 630 of 1750.

• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: I would like to congratulate Sen. (Dr.) Mbito for bringing this Statement. As you assign it to the Committee on Education, I encourage you to ensure that the CS for Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is also brought on board to explain why the digital learning programme did not take off in most schools. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the CS should also explain why the billions of shillings of the Basic Universal Service Fund (BUSF) have not been utilised or deployed during this COVID-19 times, to ensure that hard-to-reach places and underserved places in northern Kenya, like Isiolo and Marsabit ... view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you combine our children and the young adults who are now in the universities, that is more than half the population. If we joke with this and the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education takes this lightly, I do not know what else we should be talking about. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: This House should take this seriously and bring the two CSs to tell us more because there is nothing else we are doing if we are not making it easy for our children to access education. This is because our children’s and country’s future is at stake. Our fulfilment and protection of our children is also at stake. Let us pay attention to this, especially in northern Kenya, where not even all the necessities are there. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity. I would like to congratulate my Senator and the Senate Deputy Majority Leader, Sen. Dullo for bringing these two very key issues to the Senate. I will not add much on the issue of the budgetary allocation. However, I would like to urge the Committee that will be assigned to look into this matter to not only anaylse the budget from the national Government, but also look at county budgets have allocated to the COVID-19 response. I am a Member of the ad hoc Senate Committee on ... view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Isiolo County, for example, many of the youth are becoming zombies because of infiltration of drugs. It is about time that we did something both at county level and national Government level to ensure that the drug menace does not infiltrate. Already there is a dire situation in Norther Kenya, where unemployment is so high and the youth are so susceptible to use of drugs and other escape mechanisms that seem attractive to them. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if I travel through Isiolo all the way to Moyale, I will be stopped so many times. I will keep saying I ... view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: I vote “Yes” on behalf of the Delegation. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As you can see, we have even moved into the main Chamber because we are very excited as women to be celebrating our sister, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. I join you and the rest of the Senators to congratulate her and tell her how proud the women and girls of this country are because we know that we have someone that we can look up to. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Sen. (Prof.) Kamar is not just a role model for women and girls; she is going to be a role model to the men, not just in this Chamber, but also in this country. She will teach many of us, and our men, what it means to put somebody else ahead of them, not to lean in when you have nothing much to offer, to teach others, to be calm, collected and unassuming; of the very many qualities she has. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: As has been said, it is such an honour to be led by a woman of her calibre. I look up to her and will learn quite a bit from her. I know that the lessons from Sen. (Prof.) Kamar are going to be for all of us, men and women, of this country. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: I also congratulate my colleagues who offered themselves for the position. They were qualified and passionate. They have such leadership skills and talents, but chose to make sure we have a woman at the helm. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura, Sen. Kibiru, Sen. Pareno and Sen. Madzayo. All are highly qualified, but they recognized Sen. (Prof.) Kamar’s abilities and leadership qualities. They said that they would do it another day. As Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura has said, he is young and can do it another time. We look forward to seeing him lead as well. view