Beatrice Elachi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I believe this was the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). If I am in order, I know that now the Division of Revenue Bill will be coming in this House based on the amendments that we have just made. view
• 2 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to remind the House that as we conduct our business, let us not forget that we are always on air. Sometimes it becomes very political. We have just set a precedent. I hope that we will not have to elect the Chairpersons of Committees again as is the case with this one. We have set a dangerous precedence where Members can just have discretion to do anything in their Committee. We do not want to have this scenario in the last years of the term of this Senate. We have worked so closely The electronic ... view
• 1 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I know it is an issue for a party, but we never de- whipped Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale because of the Implementation Committee. It was the Committee for Finance, Budget and Commerce. We had not done election then. If the elections were held, I do not think we would de-whip our members although they have gone against the party position. view
• 1 Mar 2016 in Senate: I would plead with the Senate - where we have elected Senators in every county to represent the interest of that county, if we will start discrediting each other because of capacity, then we are going to make this issue political. Let us handle it in party meetings, but not on the Floor of this Senate. view
• 1 Mar 2016 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the Report and thank Members of the Finance, Budget and Commerce Committee for the work they have done since last week. I want to also thank all the chairpersons of the various committees that presented their recommendations to this Committee. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you look at the Budget Policy Paper we have six key pillars that the national Government is trying to address. The key pillar among all these is the pillar on sustained sectoral spending for employment creation. This is a pillar that deals with agricultural transformation ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I support this Bill because the amendment is timely. Article 54(1) of the Constitution is clear on how our sisters and brothers with special needs are supposed to be incorporated in all sectors and spheres of life in our county. To date, persons with disabilities struggle hard to move round their institutions because of lack of facilities for them. We passed an affirmative action agenda of reserving 30 per cent of Government tenders for them. However, if you look at statistics today, you will be shocked to learn that very few people living with disabilities have successfully ... view
• 25 Feb 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second The National Cereals and Produce Board (Amendment) Bill, 2015. I thank this House for passing The Food The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes view
• 23 Feb 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Kenya National Examinations Council (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bill No. 14 of 2015). I recall that students from Maranda High School suffered because of examination cheating. This happened in the computer examination. We need to interrogate whether the Kenya National Examination Council (KNEC) at that time had mechanisms of understanding that exams done by computer can bring other issues. How do you then verify that the students cheated knowing that it is not done on paper where a student writes his or her own examination but this is a computer? Therefore, ... view
• 23 Feb 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not questioning. I am just giving examples. The challenges that Sen. Obure has come across in Kisii are some of the things that we need to look at. When the KNEC decides that 122 students have to repeat a whole year in school because of cheating, we need to interrogate the teachers and the preparations that were done. This does not apply on the example that I gave earlier but in most cases, I believe the teachers are also culpable. How do you handle the case of students from the same school having identical ... view
• 18 Feb 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, pursuant to Article 5 of the Protocol to the Treaty establishing the East Africa Economic Community relating to the Pan- African Parliament, the Senate approves the nomination of Sen. Billow Kerrow as a Member of the Pan-African Parliament to replace Sen. Kipchumba Murkomen. ADOPTION OF MEDIATION COMMITTEE REPORT ON THE NATIONAL DROUGHT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY BILL view