Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 661 to 670 of 1750.

• 19 May 2020 in Senate: assemblies to make sure that they do primary oversight. As it happens, everything is brought to the Senate when primary oversight should happen at the county level, with only the secondary or more affected counties coming to the Senate. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: As a Committee, we have dealt with putting all these into five thematic areas. This is the thematic area that was looking at the financial and economic issues affecting the country. We have in our subsequent Progress Report No.6 issues pertaining to social justice, public order and human rights. If this Report sounds very detailed on economic stimulus and economic tools aligning to monetary policy, it is because there is another thematic area that would drill down these broad areas of economic tools and policy instruments to the social issues that would affect common mwananchi and Kenya at large, which ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: I seek to second the Motion and request Senators to look at these broad economic issues affecting our country. Also, the broad economic measures that both the Central Bank of Kenya, Kenya Bankers Association, Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs), Ministry of Industrialisation, Trade and Enterprise Development and our key economic sectors such as tourism and others have put in place, to ensure that we mitigate against these issues. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: I beg to second and look forward to tabling the other Report. This Report has been organised in a hierarchy that starts from the broad macro, micro and the individuals. The Sixth Report would then be on social justice, public order and human rights. I second. view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply and thank all colleagues that have contributed to this important report. I hear and relate to their cries. I associate myself with every single contribution that has been made on this Floor. This pandemic is not just a health issue. You realize that we are going from health to social-economic, food, human rights, justice and corruption issues. This goes to show how all-encompassing this pandemic is. It goes beyond a health issue to a multifaceted issue. I thank Sen. Omogeni, who is also part of the Committee, for his contribution and ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: I would also like to thank Sen. Mwaruma for the contribution he has made. He has spoken to a lot of the health issues in thematic area one that we had with regards to the health sector. I am trying to locate my notes because I was writing as he was speaking. He has taken the time to enumerate some of the issues that we need to look at in terms of the economy, finance and the people that are suffering. I would like to reassure him that in the next thematic area for social justice, public order and human ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: We were told this morning that the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that are made in the country are of higher quality than some of those we are importing. This is a wake-up call for us. As our value chain, export and import collapse, it is time for us to look inward and implement one of His Excellency the President agenda items of manufacturing. This will be a good opportunity. The Senator spoke about Tanzania doing well. I am not sure that is a good example. It is going on with business as usual and not testing. However, any Tanzanian tested ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: ourselves back. The energy mix in this country for a long time has been pretty much renewable. This is something Kenya has been lauded for, and as Kenyans, we have been proud of it. This is because the energy footprint, the fuel energy and other energy sources have the worst kind of climate effect. Kenya had opted for renewable energy because we have a lot of it. Sen Farhiya has mentioned that Wajir, Isiolo and northern Kenya are sunny. Every part of this country has more sun than all seasons combined in certain parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Madam Temporary ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: thanks to the Secretariat of the Ad Hoc Committee on COVID-19 Situation in Kenya. I know that our secretariats are usually very good, but for some reason, I think your office was kind enough to give us the very best. We have had record time in drafting Bills and writing reports. This is our Sixth Report, and we are producing more reports than the House can debate them. I would like to say a special thank you to your office for providing us with support and the Clerk’s Office for giving us an amazing support system from our clerks who ... view
• 19 May 2020 in Senate: I beg to reply. view