Cherarkey K Samson

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• 4 May 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: “That when life was short, nasty and brutal, we surrendered and created a sovereignty where all or some individuals could exercise this power”. If you say that Parliament is just playing a salutary role in this process, and that we should not give an input, then we are abdicating our responsibility to Kenyans. Therefore, I hope that when the time comes, Sen. Kang’ata, Sen. Wambua and I, will be allowed to amend and refine this Bill during the Committee of the Whole Stage. The same people who are telling us that there is room for amendment are the same ones ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Of course, matters of political parties should not reach here. I am told that the latest is the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) Party, but that is neither here nor there. Sticking to the issue before us, Clause 3 of the constitutional amendment Bill talks about shared prosperity. I remember when the BBI Taskforce visited Nandi County where tea, coffee and sugarcane farmers wanted their issues included in this Bill. That is why, given a chance, I would like to amend the Bill and ensure that the pricing of produce and products, should not come below ... view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: 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. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: ensured that the pricing is right. We should have ensured the costs of farm inputs and production are factored in the pricing of farm produce. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Secondly, there were some typos and many other errors in this Bill. When you look at the index according to the Kenya Yearbook, we had around Kshs497.8 billion in the Financial Year 2017/2018. So, agriculture, be it horticulture or tea farming, is very important. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Farmers are suffering because there are many reforms by the Government and resistance within the tea sector. There are also issues facing the sugar industry because they want to privatize leasing of Nyando Sugarbelt, which Nandi County is part of. We were told of the establishment of a Cherry Fund for the coffee sector. That has not been captured. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when I was in Kabuchai, I had an opportunity to--- There were several lessons learnt from that event. Some of them are not so good. In that entire region, our people depend on agriculture. I can see the party leader of Ford Kenya, Sen. Wetangula, smiling. I do not know what he knows that I do not. There are many lessons that I learnt. I realised that maize is also grown in that area and they depend heavily on other factors of production. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: Agriculture has not been addressed adequately, including the shared prosperity. Does shared prosperity mean only for one family or Kenyans? How do we ensure shared prosperity when farmers in this nation continue farming yet the biggest beneficiaries in the value addition chain are brokers? Milk prices are also being dictated. I have said before in this House that the Competition Authority of Kenya (CAK) has failed the nation as far as issues of crop production are concerned. view
• 4 May 2021 in Senate: I would like to talk about the issue of constituencies. I agree with Sen. Wambua. We the people of Nandi feel that we were shortchanged because Nandi has a population of 895,711. However, we were given one constituency only. Kwale which has 866,820 people was given three constituencies, but it population is less. Busia with a population of 893,681 was not given any constituency. Kitui’s population is 1,136,187 but it did not get any constituency. view