7 May 2025 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. The essence of devolution is health. I visited Maraba Sub-County Hospital on Saturday. I have visited Kapsabet County Referral Hospital and Mosoriat Sub-county Hospital. I have visited Chepteruai, Chepkongoi Despensary and Kepkeroget Dispensary. All of those hospitals and dispensaries are dysfunctional. There are no drugs in hospitals despite the fact that the county government under Governor Sang’s administration has allocated over Kshs300 million per year for that procurement of drugs. The poor sanitation; you have seen those photos going viral and yet, the Committee of Health has never found it wise to visit Nandi ...
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
We must stop this habit. Let us visit Kakamega County Referral Hospital, Kitui County Referral Hospital and Meru County Referral Hospital and find out why there are no drugs and why doctors are demotivated. You should not visit governors to look nice for photos unless you want to frame them for future references of autobiographies. Secondly, I would have expected them to give us a takeaway on the UHC staff that served since post-COVID-19 era. We have seen a news flash by the Ministry of Health that UHC staff will be transferred to counties. Are our counties ready to absorb ...
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
Finally, on the issue of energy, it is disappointing that Mandera County and northern Kenya still use generators and yet there is the KP. They took three generators, but only one is functional in Mandera. They lied to the people of Mandera and the northern Kenya. Are they not part of Kenya? The Committee on Energy is led by the “youth leader” Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga, who is the face of Broad-based Government. I am relaxed on him because he told off Governor Orengo.
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
I was assisting him by pushing for---
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was making a very pregnant point. I can allow Sen. Wambua to inform me.
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when they go visiting a governor, people end up taking a lot of time, even one hour, that should have been used to visit some of the facilities. One funny thing is that after the event, you see some colleagues of ours, with all due respect, putting a caption that the governor has promised to improve, yet they have not visited those facilities. On the Committee on Energy, please, let Mandera and Northern Kenya access KP and the national grid. It is unfortunate that Mandera has only one functional generator that goes off because of the ...
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
So, I want to commend the committee led by Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga who is our face and the architect of the Broad-based Government and one of the “youth leaders” of this country. I congratulate him for telling off Governor Orengo. I saw Sen. Sifuna saying something today about the Broad-based Government. He should be careful because when Sen. (Dr.) Oburu speaks, it is Rt. hon. Raila Odinga who speaks. With those many remarks, I support all those statements.
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I continue to second this Bill on establishment of sports academies in our counties, we are struggling with restless and energetic young people who would like to explore their talents. The only way to enhance that in our counties is through establishment of sports academies.
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7 May 2025 in Senate:
Yesterday in the evening, I was a bit disappointed after Barcelona lost against Inter Milan by an aggregate of six or seven goals. However, I was excited by one prolific player called Yamal Lamine whose roots are Morocco and Equatorial Guinea because the mother is from Equatorial Guinea while the father is from Morocco.
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