21 Sep 2023 in Senate:
dollars. If this House has been following, one of the biggest agenda of President William Ruto outside climate change, is on the fair financial justice. I am happy when I watch President Kagame of Rwanda; we wish him well as he seeks his fourth term. He said yesterday that he does not care what the West thinks. He spoke about two things as he was addressing UN General Assembly in New York. He talked about climate change and also about fairness of international financial institutions. Why should a developing country like Kenya pay more than a country which is in ...
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21 Sep 2023 in Senate:
Why not raise the limit to Kshs20 million? If you withdraw Kshs5 million, you will need several clearances. Mr. Musangi who we have given blessings should allow us to withdraw up to Kshs20 million. A sum of Kshs1 million is not enough; it is not even enough to buy one or two ‘slay queens’ in this town. The cost of living is high. Finally, I agree with the report of the Committee and wish Mr. Musangi well. For the first time, we are rewarding integrity. As a result, we will wind up corruption. Allow me to end my submissions because ...
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want from the onset to support the Petition.
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
No, I have been seeing wonderful things that the President has done until it has shocked my eyes, but I am recovering. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to support the Petition by Sen. Mwaruma over the hardship allowance. Even for us in Nandi County, many people assume that we are in the land of Canaan of honey and milk. However, when you go to some areas such as Terik Ward in Aldai, Tinderet and Mosop, our people there need hardship allowances. It is not for Taita Taveta alone. I think most of the parts of the country ought to ...
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
I think the biggest enemy of teachers in this country is the TSC. We have had incessant complains of non-payment to teachers who retired in 1997. We saw teachers embarrassingly standing at TSC because their lives are in danger in the Northern part of Kenya, where daily, they are being butchered, massacred and killed. It is a high time that the TSC did their job. In fact, there is a proposal that they are being floated around. For instance, the Chairperson of the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) is Chief Justice Martha Koome. Why do we not have one of the ...
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
So, we need somebody who is part of it, so that the mess can be sorted out. Finally, on the issue of the Petition on elections, the deputy governors and deputy presidents, I think those are issues that will go to popular initiative and referendum. The Committee on Justice and legal Affairs and Human Rights should not waste their time because those are things that will end up in popular initiative. To allow my colleagues to add on this Petition, allow me to rest my case there. Thank you and I support both Petitions.
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1), to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing on the omission of construction of six interchanges on the Nairobi’s Western bypass. In the Statement, the Committee should: (1) state the reasons behind the omission of six interchanges from the original plan by China Roads and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) for the Nairobi Western Bypass despite the initial approval; (2) clarify the rationale behind disbursing the payment of Kshs21.5 billion to the contractor, despite the contractor’s failure to complete interchanges as initially intended through the Bill ...
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
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20 Sep 2023 in Senate:
(4) highlight the steps taken by the Government to hold to account the officials involved in colluding with the contractor in payment of Kshs21.5 billion, leading to the omission of interchanges.
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