23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. That is a very critical question since the issue of COVID-19 pandemic and many people have not been able to access critical services from the Government. What shocks is that the Government had started an account called e-Citizen. We would have expected the Government to digitize, so that access to certificates of good conduct, passports, identification cards (IDs), among other critical documents in application of more essential services in the Government should have been more fast-tracked.
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
If you remember, and it is on the HANSARD, the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which I am a Member, tabled a report last year. We had a discussion with the National Police Service (NPS) and the DCI among other agencies that the Kshs1,000 being paid by many young people to get certificates of good conduct should be budgeted for or waived. Madam Deputy Speaker, most of the young people, when looking for jobs, do not have even Kshs100 or Kshs200 to go for interviews and job hunting or join “Kenya tarmacking network”. It was very important that we ...
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Okay, Madam Deputy Speaker. I will not override, but will just keep riding on it by saying that we need to agree. I have seen the issue of 4th July and 14th July when we are resuming international flights. It is the reopening of the economy and critical Government services in line with the Ministry of Health’s guidelines of the fight against COVID-19 pandemic. It is very important that we also give timelines to Kenyans. I can see we are giving timelines to Kenyans who want to fly out of the country. Why are we not giving timelines for ‘hustler’ ...
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I rise pursuant to Standing Order 48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Committee on Roads and Transportation regarding the poor road signage on sections of the roads under construction along Kapsabet-Eldoret Highway. In the Statement the Committee should- (1) Explain why the contractor by the name China Wuyi, working on the overpass of Kapseret Shopping Centre, has not installed proper signage, including proper lighting on the road to warn motorists as they approach the diversion at the construction site, so as to avoid accidents, particularly due to poor visibility. (2) Explain what measures ...
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I hate to interrupt my Majority Leader by saying that---
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
I meant my lecturer, Mwalimu Murkomen, who taught me International Law.
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
I was on a point of order.
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23 Jun 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. I heard my good lecturer and I use my words very carefully because he taught me very well. I did not mean that the Director of KeNHa, Eng. Peter Mundinia is not serving the country, but we have seen less of him and his officers in the KeNHa region of North Rift area, which Sen. Murkomen, yourself and I are serving. I did not mean that he has been selective or discriminative in that aspect. Therefore, my majority leader, I wanted to caution you so that you do not pursue that angle. ...
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16 Jun 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to contribute to the Petition which I support because we have been having problems where I come from. As my colleague Senators have said, let us be given inventory of what the Ministry of Lands and Physical
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16 Jun 2020 in Senate:
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