Amos Wako

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• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Just two. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: In the interest of good neighbourliness. 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
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very important matter. I used to sit on the board of KPA. At that time, KPA managed the ferry services. The manager there was also an employee of KPA. Later on, we thought that the time had arrived when the KFS should be independent and on their own; that it may grow faster when it is on its own. That is why I sat on the board that decided to give birth to KFS Ltd. I believe that the first General Manager was one Mr. Alex Leteipan. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it beats ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to speak on this Address by our President, which touches on the measures taken and the progress achieved in the realization of national values referred to in Article 10. I was there reading the provisions of the Constitution. Under Article 10, we have a number of issues that ought to be addressed. I did not want to go through them. One of them is the issue of sustainable development. I want to go through it because the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) Report, if you have read it, has sought to ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: His assurance would be that by the end of the two-year period, a firm foundation would have been laid to deal with the issue of poverty, and in particular, the hardcore poor. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having talked about Universal Healthcare (UHC), we cannot talk about health without mentioning what is currently going on. I would have liked for the President to have given us an outline on the level of preparedness of our county governments in dealing with this pandemic. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: We have seen the figures of those dying. I have just seen that 17 people have died within the last 24 hours. The figures are now in the twenties. People are passing away, most of them being very senior doctors, and so on. When I was growing up, I thought that a doctor could never die because he could cure himself, but we now know better that any person can die. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: It is a harrowing story when you hear how some of these people died. You hear that somebody went to a particular hospital and could not be admitted, and they were on their way to another hospital when they passed on. You hear that somebody was being escorted by his wife to a hospital and the procedure of admitting that person was so long that they died in the car. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: You hear from people who have survived that in some hospitals doctors trying to make a very serious decision on who should get oxygen. After one person passes on, the oxygen becomes available, and there about two or three people who are waiting to get it. They begin asking: “Who should get it?” In deciding who should get it, they are passing a death sentence on the others. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, do we really have enough oxygen for all the counties, not just big hospitals here in Nairobi? Do we have enough Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), not just here in the national hospitals, but also in the county hospitals? Some of the doctors who have died--- Dr. Alushula who was a doctor in Busia passed on. Do we have enough PPEs? view