Beatrice Elachi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2014 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move;- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order No.28 (3), the Senate do now adjourn until Tuesday, 23rd September, 2014. I want to thank the Senate that, indeed, this second session that we have had has been a session where we have worked within the Committees and at least, we have passed several Bills within this House. I also want to add that as we go for recess, I know the Senators will form the County Boards and we hope that they will also invite the Nominated Senators to join them as they constitute the ... view
• 6 Aug 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. While I know that in this country, even chiefs and other people do volunteer, I wanted to ask earlier if, indeed, my Senator, who is also my leader from Western, was in order to say that the police had AK47 rifles. I never saw on television AK47 rifles in the class. I think that it would be wrong for us to discourage people who have volunteered to help, where we know that situations are very dire. In fact, what is happening is a result of our mistakes as leaders. view
• 6 Aug 2014 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is the Senator in order to blame the Jubilee Government while he knows very well that the Governors have already been given the money to build their residences and so on? I think it would be in order for this House to be guided that it is up to the county governments and especially the Governors to make sure that where the allocations were, they are done correctly but not the national Government. view
• 5 Aug 2014 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Sir. I also rise to support. I know that with the challenges we are facing in our country, Kenyans are now looking upon us to bring sanity within the county assemblies and also for the county assemblies to understand that as much as we consider recurrent expenditure, we will ensure that development also goes to the wards. view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support that, indeed, we need to extend our sessions before we go on recess so that we deal with critical matters before this House. The County Allocation of Revenue Bill is an obligation of this Senate. We need to ensure that county governments get resources to run. It is also the obligation of governors to start understanding that we have a Senate which they need to work with regardless of whether they like the individuals in the Senate or not. It is important for the country to know that governors running to ... view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, before the Senator of Mombasa decided to do something that was not right--- view
• 31 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was saying that it is important for governors to appreciate that Kenyans, through the Constitution, felt that there was need for the institution of the Governors and that of Senators to collaborate and to work together. As I said, it is unfortunate that they have decided that the courts will be their best friend. However, the Senate should now stand firm and move on. Under 96(1), we are supposed to protect counties. Therefore, what we are doing is not for Governors, as individuals. We are here to protect the people in the counties and to ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also rise to support this Bill. First of all, I want to thank both the National Assembly and the Senate. We have moved a step further despite the challenges. We have gone through mediation which is something positive. We hope and believe that come next year we want to see both Houses moving through this without going through mediation. As we look at the County Allocation Bill, we need to know that we are going to have challenges with the 11 referral hospitals considering that we have not yet solved the problem. We must ask ... view
• 24 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order No.45, this is to present the Senate Business of the coming week. On Tuesday, 29th July, 2014, there will be no sitting as it will be a public holiday to mark the end of Ramadhan. On Wednesday, 30th July, 2014, the Rules and Business Committee will meet on Wednesday, 30th July at 12.00 noon to schedule business for the Senate for the week. The Senate will continue with the business that will not be concluded in today’s Order Paper. As hon. Senators may recall from yesterday’s communication from the ... view
• 24 Jul 2014 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is also important to note that some of the journalists have requested the Senate to give them space to sit because they are saying that where the KBC crew sit, they are not allowed to go there. The other question they raised is that they have been given very limited space in a room that sometimes becomes very hot and they cannot sit there. They also requested that we look at our security which sometimes blocks them from coming in. I agree with your ruling that we deal with this The electronic version of the ... view