12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly:
I thank you very much.
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9 May 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to ask Question No. 228/2019 to the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. (i) When will the Ministry operationalise the administrative units of Samburu North Constituency that were gazetted in mid-2017 that included two divisions, seven locations and 13 sub-locations? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary consider urgently putting up the necessary physical infrastructure and fill up the attendant personnel positions including those of chiefs, assistant chiefs and other administration personnel for the said administrative units? Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker.
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9 May 2019 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker, I think the Leader of the Majority Party is being unfair because I was here yesterday evening when we discussed about…
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9 May 2019 in National Assembly:
Yes, I am on a point of order. Yesterday, I was here and I am not a contractor but I contributed on the issue concerning women and youth. So, not all who were here yesterday were contractors. We were just deliberating and making laws which can assist our people to be able to do business with Government, specifically women and youth.
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8 May 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady for giving me an opportunity. This House must ensure there is financial discipline in Government. From what we are talking about here, I think there is indiscipline. From the experience we have, you cannot advertise tenders if there are no funds. In fact, when you advertise tenders in the newspapers money is already committed. This is unless, we are not following the normal procedures of the Financial Management Act. First of all, I support his Bill but I do not support the issue of promissory notes and debts. We need to ensure that Government ...
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7 May 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I concur with the Chair, especially on (lb), because we have realised that even though we have procurement officers in the county, we still have a lot of anomalies. They do not follow the required rules and the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act. There is a lot of misappropriation of funds and they are not following the correct procedures of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act. Something has to be done to make sure that the national Government builds capacity of the procurement officers in the counties.
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25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I rise to support the President’s State of the Nation Address. Just as my colleagues have said, we are really impressed and we are happy that the address by the President dwelt so much on the unity of this country. For some time, we realised that unity was actually elusive. Most times, after elections, people remain disunited and they have a lot of anger against one another. The handshake that the President initiated in March last year actually has gone a long way to bring unity and peace across ...
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25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly:
However, in northern Kenya, we still lack a lot of development programmes. I see that the handshake and the BBI have brought a lot of resources in other parts of the country, but where I come from, there is very little that we can show.
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25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly:
I come from Samburu North and we have shortage of food. There is no infrastructure and electricity. People are very hungry because of the drought. I think this initiative by the President should spread across the entire northern Kenya. There is the issue of the Equalisation Fund. The drafters of the Constitution deliberately put Article 204 in order to have resources in place to assist the counties that were left behind in terms of development because of marginalisation right from the time of colonialism up to the period after Independence, which is 50 years. We call upon the President to ...
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25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly:
highly armed and who have sophisticated weapons and are even better than the police themselves. Something should be done. We are losing policemen from communities which have nothing to do with cattle rustling. The officer who was shot and killed, an inspector, is from Nyanza. He does not know what is going on in that village. He is on duty because he is employed to do that, but he dies innocently like that. In other countries, killing a policeman is really a serious offence but in this country it is not. Four years ago, 42 policemen were killed in Baragoi ...
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