Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. The process of impeachment is not legal per se. It is more of a political process that has been established. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a lighter touch, the Kenya Airways (KQ) just reported that unfortunately, Stella is not coming back; the famous song that she is the first lady to ‘eat’ an international fare unlike the local ones who ‘eat’ matatu fare. Mr. Speaker, Sir, from the onset this process is so sacrosanct and important. We are not only making a decision about the Governor, but also the people of Wajir. The view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: impeachment process - as I have indicated earlier on - is not a legal process. When you look at the jurisprudence of impeachment across the world, some people have been impeached from office not on criminality issues, but sometimes on civil issues, incompetence and morality issues. Therefore, it is more of a political process as opposed to a legal process. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when Wajir County Assembly impeached the Governor before us had 17 accusations levelled against him. For some of us who were following keenly, we wanted to give the Governor, the County Assembly and the great people of ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: The Senate, county assembly and county governments must partner for our devolution to work, effective and efficient, so that it does run into inefficiency or become moribund. This is because the ultimate consumer of service delivery is the ordinary Wanjiku. Going by that fact, there are so many issues that were raised like the employment process. There is an officer who is under investigation or was interdicted. County employment is done through the County Public Service Board. There was no link and nexus that could show that the Governor directly influenced in a specific way the employment of a specific ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: unauthenticated letter and present it to the House. If we are not careful, because this process enjoys quasi -judicial mechanism then we can be admitting anything. My wish and prayer as I advise the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) as they go back, make sure any document you submit before the Senate is authenticated. It might look politically correct and sensational to say the spouse of the governor is running affairs in Wajir County Government, but you must provide the nexus so that it allows us to convict or acquit the governor on that basis. view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: On that, I was keen; I have looked at the Report and the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) statement which was not authenticated. In future, we do not want first ladies running county governments and we hope they will stick to their lanes. In one instance and all of us followed the allegation by the County Assembly that the governor holds - Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have been a governor - meetings that relate to running of a county in his official residence. You expect the spouse to be there to prepare tea for you. If you do not take tea ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: I agree with Senators and I wanted to be short because they say brevity is the soul of wit. On the issue of health, under Article 43 of the Constitution, the right to health and economic social rights is a fundamental right. It is in the Constitution that the President of the Republic of Kenya, President Uhuru must give us reports on the status of implementation of economic and social rights. The right to health is key. I have looked at the issue of health and our counties are in a crisis. As we talk, in March 2021, Nandi County ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have said this before and the HANSARD can bear me witness that the National Treasury under Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani under Article 219 has been violating the law. As we talk, 2020/2021 Financial Year is coming to an end and counties are owed more than Kshs100 billion. How do you want counties to function when the National Treasury is violating Article 219 of the Constitution by not releasing sufficient funds? I wish when we were discussing this impeachment, almost the last tranche of Wajir County government funds was deposited in the accounts. I have seen they ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Sen. M. Kajwang’ raised an important point. He said at the national level, you will find a Cabinet Secretary in charge of health discussing irrelevancies as opposed to stating when we are getting the second AstraZeneca vaccine. Should we impeach President Uhuru Kenyatta? Should we move a Motion of no confidence against Mutahi view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Kagwe because he is busy discussing BBI as opposed to telling us when the vaccines will be available in the country? Those are serious issues that we must ask ourselves. As we talk today, Kenyans are yet to receive vaccines. The only strategy or - I do not know whether it is economical, they are saying in July there is the fourth wave of COVID-19 – weapon the Government will put in place is lockdowns and restrictions. You need to scale down to the level of Wajir County. The issue of health is personal and we need concerted efforts on ... view
• 17 May 2021 in Senate: Finally, I support the County Assembly on the move for autonomy. There is a gap. We need to put legislation so that they can have a vote in the National Treasury. We had the issue of Mombasa County and I remember we sat in the Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations Committee and discussed with the County Assembly and County Executive on where the funds were being starved by the Executive so that the County Assembly does not function properly. The County Assembly should be autonomous going forward into the future. view