5 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember when I was the Chairperson of the Committee Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, we had started a process to investigate extra-judicial killings in the country. I agree with my colleagues that we need to form a select Committee. In fact, I assure Sen. Ndwiga, on behalf of the people of Embu, that some of us are willing to join the Committee tomorrow or Monday to ensure that we listen to these issues. Is there a problem in our police force that we do not know of? Are they suffering and need counselling? Madam Temporary ...
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5 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise, pursuant to Standing Order 48 (1), to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Health on the status of the banned Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine in Kenya. In the statement, the Committee should- (1) Explain the approval process, if any, that the Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine underwent before being introduced in the country; (2) State the quantity of the Sputnik V Vaccine that was delivered to Kenya before it was banned and provide the correct data on the number of patients that had been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine and whether ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to commend the Committee for the Report. For the first time, I agree with the Committee of Sen. (Dr.) Ali. It was a job well done. The recommendations are the kind that we want from our committees of the Senate. I am impressed by your recommendations, and I do not want to go into a lot of issues that have been raised by my learned senior. This issue of the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) should be looked again. I think our agenda should be to always protect our cooperative ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to commend the Committee for the Report. For the first time, I agree with the Committee of Sen. (Dr.) Ali. It was a job well done. The recommendations are the kind that we want from our committees of the Senate. I am impressed by your recommendations, and I do not want to go into a lot of issues that have been raised by my learned senior. This issue of the Sacco Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) should be looked again. I think our agenda should be to always protect our cooperative ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
societies that we have. It looks like SASRA has changed its strategy. Instead of supporting most of our SACCOs, they are now becoming part of the funeral home in ensuring that SACCOs are put under statutory management; they become dead and that is it. In order to grow our economy, we need to ensure that SASRA is part of the success of most of the SACCOs. As we talk today, many Kenyans including some of us here, have lost money through pyramid schemes and yet we have authorities like SASRA who should be protecting the interest of Kenyans at all ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
societies that we have. It looks like SASRA has changed its strategy. Instead of supporting most of our SACCOs, they are now becoming part of the funeral home in ensuring that SACCOs are put under statutory management; they become dead and that is it. In order to grow our economy, we need to ensure that SASRA is part of the success of most of the SACCOs. As we talk today, many Kenyans including some of us here, have lost money through pyramid schemes and yet we have authorities like SASRA who should be protecting the interest of Kenyans at all ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you for that information. I have seen that Co-operative Bank of Kenya has been co-operative but I was just making an observation that in case in future, some of the commercial banks in this country participate in aiding and abetting these financial crimes, then they must be held accountable. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the DCI should move with speed and ensure that if anybody was culpable in some of these malpractices--- We know that MUSCO, for those of us who studied in Moi University, three quarters of the members who work and support through MUSCO have benefited through ...
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4 Aug 2021 in Senate:
Thank you for that information. I have seen that Co-operative Bank of Kenya has been co-operative but I was just making an observation that in case in future, some of the commercial banks in this country participate in aiding and abetting these financial crimes, then they must be held accountable. Madam Temporary Speaker, I think the DCI should move with speed and ensure that if anybody was culpable in some of these malpractices--- We know that MUSCO, for those of us who studied in Moi University, three quarters of the members who work and support through MUSCO have benefited through ...
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