Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: this Committee has done, to show what other countries are doing and how Kenya has been able to handle it. For example, the United Nations, the European Parliament, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, France, Estonia, Australia, Maldives, Poland, South Africa, Norway, and the United States of America; all of them have been in one way or another using these practices. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, by stating it this way, it gives us the confidence that we are on the right track. More importantly, we are not only setting the pace for understanding of COVID-19 and its effects, but also trying ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: learning has taken place, we know that it is not all students who have been able to have access. Therefore, it is an experience I know that within the University of Nairobi, for example, and other universities countrywide, people are grappling about the issue of how to issue exams and how to handle it at such times. Is the student going to fill an exam form alone, for example, in a cybercafé? Will that exam be valid? Should the exam be made more critical analysis oriented rather than memory recall? All these issues are coming. The same issues will come ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: technical problem. Technology is technology, and it tends to always backfire when you do not want it to backfire. Sen. (Prof.) Kamar will remember when we had a meeting recently in the Committee and Members were just waiting to submit their input. Some Members had an unfortunate incident of them being completely switched off until much later. I think the technology and the technical problems will need very innovative ways. For example, I see many Senators calling in and being put on loud speaker, so that they can speak. Therefore, all these have to be quite well navigated across our ... view
• 21 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am wrapping up in a minute. There is the issue of witnesses and broadcast of virtual sittings. If there is a virtual sitting of the Senate, it stipulates how that is meant to be done and how it is meant to be recorded. Finally, as I wrap up, we have two systems available to us. There is a virtual system and a hybrid sitting. The recommendation that is being made on this Report is that we can go hybrid, especially for the Plenary sittings. Also, for the virtual sittings, especially in committees, we can go ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the extension of time for this particular Committee to complete its work. As other Members have said, their work is very critical because they are dealing with the health issues. Sen. Wetangula and Sen. Dullo are very distinguished Senators in this House. For a long time we have been doing a lot of work brought to this House by various Ad Hoc committees. Through them, we have been able to extensively engage with various sectors in the country. Even when we were in Kitui during the Senate Mashinani, the work of ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was seconding this Motion and I had just started. I was commending the work of this Committee. This is the Seventh and the Eight Report; we still expect other reports to come. From the meetings that have been held by this Committee, we see that they have been able to extensively engage with various stakeholders across various key issues related to health issues. They have done a very good categorisation of the issues. I have also been looking at the Eighth Report. In the Eighth Report, they are focusing on access to food, water ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: can protect, create safety and well-being of the citizens of Kenya and also of those in the frontline. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are now beginning to experience a situation where we are losing some of the healthcare workers within the hospitals and various institutions. We are also experiencing a sense of fear because these are the frontline warriors who have to deal with this. Issues such as protection, wearing of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), ensuring that they are well protected and their needs are taken care of becomes very critical. Another key area that this Committee has dealt with is ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Report also gives us the progress on The Pandemic Response and Management Bill. This is soon coming to the Committee of the Whole and we will complete that. As we have said, for the other committees and issues that will come, implementation will be key. I have already looked at The Pandemic Response and Management Bill. It is very extensive and sets various committees. As the Senate, we need to speed-track on that Bill, so that we can have those specific structures that are stipulated within that Bill quickly put into operation. This is so that ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Services Bill is also coming up for a Second Reading in this House. It also tries to strengthen. Without a strong healthcare force, especially at the county levels, COVID-19 renders a big challenge for us. Allow me to quickly go through the Eighth Report. It has 165 submissions. Shall I say excellent! I do not think we have reached these numbers before. It shows the sort of interest that Kenyans are taking and the fact that we Senate put such a committee in place to capture this, we were in the right place doing the right thing at the right ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Yes, you can clap for that. Madam Temporary Speaker, there were site visits, where various stakeholders were engaged. In this particular Eighth Report, there was more focus turning to the issues of access to food, water and other essential services. The CS gave some insights. What is important, which is mentioned here, was the need for continued production and distribution of food commodities across the country. As we focus on COVID-19, there is the issue of agriculture and ensuring that agricultural production does not halt. We do not want to have a food crisis after the COVID-19 pandemic. The Report ... view