14 May 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. For the record, my name is Sen. Kibiru and not ―Kabiru‖.
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14 May 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No. 47(1), I rise to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Health on the reported poor status of Kerugoya Level 4 Hospital in Kirinyaga where service delivery has deteriorated to worrying levels with the Level 4 Hospital becoming a medical facility with dirty linens, clogged water systems, unserviceable toilets and blocked drainage, thereby exposing patients to possible outbreak of epidemics that may further compound the already bad situation. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) state the circumstances sorrounding the near total collapse of the hospital, which is currently experiencing a ...
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14 May 2019 in Senate:
I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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10 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. First and foremost, I register my exception to the fact that the Executive did not keep time on the day they came to address us in National Assembly Chamber. We were held captive for 28 minutes. If you may remember, in early January, Lord Michael Bates almost resigned because of coming four minutes late. The Executive need to take care of the resource called time. It is a resource that needs to be respected. The two Houses are houses of order. The Executive needs to respect time and probably I will be asking the ...
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10 Apr 2019 in Senate:
we went to one of the hospitals and there was some theatre equipment that could not add up. When we asked the experts there, they said that they were given a bed which was supposed to be an operation bed, but then it turned out to be a maternity bed. There is some other equipment that has been lying there. There is no three phase power, water and so on for two years yet the counties are paying for that. As much as we want to help and offer services to our people, we need to plan. We need to ...
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10 Apr 2019 in Senate:
infrastructure so that counties can engage the young people so that they can manufacture. We need to encourage cottage industries. That is the only way we will start developing. For example, India is very good in cottage industries; China is coming up, it also has very good cottage industries. Germany is doing very well. As we plan and move forward, the national Government must help the counties avoid copying and pasting what the other counties are doing. There should be comparative advantage in our counties. If copying and pasting continues, we will have the problem of oversupply which will create ...
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2 Apr 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to welcome the teachers and pupils of Glory Vision Primary School, Kirinyaga County. I would like to ask them 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.
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2 Apr 2019 in Senate:
to feel at home and also encourage them to be good ambassadors of the great County of Kirinyaga. I want to join my colleagues who have been supporting the Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Ali. I have a Motion regarding stalled projects and we need to discuss it. We have been talking about stalled projects in the newspapers for some time now. This is something that we need to take seriously because a lot of money is lying idle. We have seen hunger kill our people in some parts of this country and we are talking about dams that have stalled.This ...
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, AWARE THAT Kenya has had a development blueprint of Vision 2030 since 2008, which has guided planning and development for the last decade,
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20 Mar 2019 in Senate:
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