15 May 2024 in Senate:
Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me also take this opportunity to thank Sen. Kavindu Muthama for chairing this Committee. She has passionately followed this matter up, and sometimes felt like crying. I am also in that Committee, and when the victims came before us to narrate to us what they went through, all the Members who were there cried because it was not something that we could stomach. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on 7th August, 1998, I was in Addis Ababa on a business trip. I left my hotel room early morning at around 7.00 a.m. ...
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15 May 2024 in Senate:
through. Some people came in crutches. They are walking in crutches up to today, without having been compensated for all those years. I know our President is going to travel to USA next week. I urge him, on behalf of this House, to tell the Americans that we are not collateral damage. We are human beings like the Americans who were working for that Government. The contractors who were working for that Government were compensated billions of shillings. If we are going to host Americans here and then we suffer because we host them, who will take responsibility? It is ...
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15 May 2024 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We are not begging them. We are demanding them to pay our people. Our people lost their lives, were maimed and tortured, both mentally and physically because of their issues. They had intelligence, but they did not care. The same thing is happening in Gaza. Thousands of women and children are dying. The ammunitions that the Israelis are using are from America. Let it not be as if we are begging them because we are demanding what is rightfully ours. Our people must be compensated, not just at a lower percentage, but to the ...
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15 May 2024 in Senate:
will be given should include those who died, those who were maimed and those still having issues today in Kenya. I request the President to put up our case and see how we can have these people compensated as quickly as possible. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in conclusion, I beg to support this report. Once again, I thank Sen. Kavindu Muthama for a job well done. I thank you.
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14 May 2024 in Senate:
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute to the Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Boda bodas are present throughout Africa and beyond. It is a critical transport system helping people in a rural part of this country. They are facing a lot of challenges from the police and criminals abducting them. We need to protect this industry, which is very important for this country. It has created employment and will create more employment opportunities for our young people. We need to have a basic traffic system implemented or observed by boda boda operators. The Government has ...
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9 May 2024 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Information, Communication, and Technology regarding the loss of signal on the Free-To-Air (FTA) channels for licensed broadcast signal distributors (BSDs) namely Pan African Network Group (PANG) and Signet Kenya Limited. In the statement, the committee should- (a) Disclose the ownership structure of both Pan African Network Group (PANG) and Signet Kenya Limited, stating whether they have adhered to the court directive of offloading their shares to local investors. (b) State the root cause of the constant network glitches that ...
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9 May 2024 in Senate:
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8 May 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I had two supplementary questions the last time the Cabinet Secretary appeared before this House. One question was on the issue of National Police Reservists (NPR) recruitment in Marsabit. The second one was on Ileret Sub-County. He promised us that it will take 60 days. I want to thank him because he has kept his promise. The NPR recruitment was done. They were well-trained and deployed. I also thank him on the issue of Ileret, which he has mentioned. The question I have is on Hillo Gold Mining Site that was closed at 0630 hours on ...
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7 May 2024 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have two statements to read. One is a request for a statement on the distribution and use of harmful pesticides and herbicides in Kenya. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53(1) to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, regarding the distribution and use of harmful pesticides and herbicides in Kenya. In the statement, the committee should- The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate.
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7 May 2024 in Senate:
(1) Report on the extent of use of pesticides and herbicides manufactured by Syngenta, Bayer Ag and Monsanto, which have been banned in other jurisdictions, including the United States of America (USA) and Europe, for causing a widespread aggressive form of cancer. (2) Confirm whether the firms have been selling 85 per cent of pesticides and herbicides, classified as highly hazardous by the Pesticides Action Network (PAN) to farmers in Kenya and establish whether the pesticides and herbicides sold by the firm are banned by the European Union and state the reasons for the ban. (3) Investigate and clarify whether ...
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