Beatrice Elachi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Senate must be fair to both persons. My bone of contention is that you cannot bring one mistake and say the other one was not a mistake, since it was in the media and yet you have just told us that the issue was breaking news in the media. Even the other news was in the media and the Senator for Siaya cannot tell us that we have policemen who have been killed because of issues they have seen. People will also say the bodyguard of Sen. Mbuvi was killed. Was it because of the ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: I am requesting, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 45(2)(b) to seek a statement from the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Roads and Transportation regarding boat safety in the Kenyan lakes. In the statement, the Chairperson should address the following:- (a) State the number of boat accidents that have occurred in the Kenyan lakes in the past two years and the number of casualties per lake. (b) Explain whether the Government has put in place safety regulations for life jacket usage, boat capacity and lighting of boats and whether the regulations are adhered to; and, (c) Explain the ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to second. I was in the RBC meeting and the Senate Minority Leader knows very well what we agreed on. We agreed that he should sit down with the Senate Majority Leader and agree. That is what the Chair said. So, it will be very wrong for us to canvass here when we agreed very well that they must sit down as two leaders and lead the House. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to second that we adjourn the debate and go back on what the Chair had requested us to do. view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Bill. According to the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, library services are a devolved function. As we discuss this Bill, we need to ensure library services are devolved to serve our people at county levels. However, it is a pity that land where libraries were to be built in counties has been grabbed. Although the Transition Authority (TA) would up its activities, we must make sure we repossess land that was grabbed and build libraries in our counties. We must take the inventory of all existing assets of library facilities. I hope ... view
• 9 Mar 2016 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I request that we defer the Question to a day the Chair will accept pursuant to Standing Order 54 (3). view
• 2 Mar 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Mover be now called upon to reply to the Motion. view
• 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