Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Apr 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to say that as my colleagues have said, this is one of the important processes that we have as a Senate. Madam Deputy Speaker, I will mention two things in the interest of time. All of us--- view
• 13 Apr 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, there is a significant improvement of Kshs370 billion, but we have expressed reservation because we did not know that the Government would go ahead and mingle it with the Road Maintenance Levy Fund to raise this. We thought that the additional Kshs53.5 billion would be directly shared from equitable shareable revenue. I am happy because I was one of the biggest supporters of increment to counties under Division of Revenue and Third Basis Generation Formula. It was an honour to serve in the special committee and we resolved the stalemate that we faced. I am happy that ... view
• 13 Apr 2021 in Senate: Article 219 of the Constitution is clear on what is supposed to be done. The late disbursement of funds to the counties is an elephant in the room. I do not know the reason as to why the current Cabinet Secretary (CS) in charge of National Treasury has a problem with disbursement of funds. The former CS of National Treasury would disburse funds by the 5th day of each month. The Chairperson of the Council of Governors complained that National Treasury owes the counties Kshs52 billion. The financial year is almost coming to an end yet the National Treasury still ... view
• 13 Apr 2021 in Senate: I want to comment on the ballooning public debts. I saw the proposals that were tabled in the National Assembly. It is unfortunate that a lot of money is being used to service public debt. We are currently approaching Kshs7.1 trillion and word in the corridors of Parliament has it that the National Treasury CS might be pushing to have the debt ceiling to Kshs12 trillion. The ballooning debt will continue to affect our development agenda. I am happy that I am one of the seven Senators who refused the increment of the public debt to Kshs9 trillion. We must ... view
• 13 Apr 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
• 13 Apr 2021 in Senate: reason that Bidco is relocating to Uganda. Those are some of the serious pills that KRA must take in as much as they try to collect more revenue. They should ensure that people get value for money. As we talk of division of revenue, we should also encourage the counties to give subsidies and other farm inputs to the farmers. It is now raining in the North Rift yet we have not seen subsidized fertilizers. To avoid inflation, the farmers from the North Rift region, which is one of our food baskets, should be given subsidies and farm inputs by ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. From the onset, I support this Petition by Mombasa residents. I have been following this issue keenly. I remember that we visited Mombasa some time back. In 2016, the courts ordered that the County Government of Mombasa complies with the United Nations (UN) on displacement of people. Unfortunately, there was no public participation. It is a surprising that the developer who was given the contract after re-tendering of the process did public participation, but not the County Government of Mombasa. So, it is very sad that there was no public participation that was done. Secondly, ... view
• 30 Mar 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
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: houses. You will remember that more than 800 people were displaced during the curfew and pandemic in July 2020. Mr. Speaker, if we do not pronounce ourselves as a Senate and handle these issues within the law and ensure that the agencies such as the national and county governments must be reprimanded from doing--- We have eviction and settlement laws that are in place. Why are they allowed to be domicile or nonfunctional? Going forward, I will urge that the Buxton Housing Petition should be taken seriously. We know the person who won the tender very well. He should stop ... view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I move that the Mover be called to reply, then we can move to the main Motion. view