19 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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19 Oct 2022 in Senate:
regarding the process of acquisition and distribution of relief supplies to Marsabit County. In the statement, the Committee should- (1) Table a detailed report of the amount of relief supplies provided by Government to the people of Marsabit in tonnage in the last five years. (2) Disclose the nature, type and the cost of relief food supplies that have been disbursed to the county in the last five years stating the particulars of the beneficiaries, indicating the benefits and the benefitting sub counties. (3) Audit the procedure of how the suppliers are arrived at, stating the tendering process, providing the ...
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am sorry to say that I am addressing an empty House.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
I thank God for this opportunity and congratulate the President, Deputy President, Members of Parliament (MPs) and the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) both elected and nominated.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
The President talked about Kshs300 billion savings. We have a revenue of Kshs2.1 trillion against borrowing of Kshs900 billion. If the President wants to save Kshs300 billion, he should have started with lowering corruption from 30 per cent to 10 per cent.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
If we save 30 per cent, out of the Kshs3 trillion, the Government is going to save Kshs694 billion. The problem we have is not savings, but corruption. If we reduce corruption from 30 per cent to 10 per cent, we will save Kshs700 billion. We have this problem because of the institutions of Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), Parliament and the Judiciary. What we need to do is before anything else is deal with corruption.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
The President also talked about affordable housing. Housing cannot be affordable if the cost of production is high. You need to reduce the cost of production then talk about affordable housing.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
In Kenya today, the electricity bills are high. If you want to reduce cost, let us come up with renewable energy. We have a wind farm in Marsabit which is producing 90MWs. We need to increase this on yearly basis to about 300 megawatts so that way we might reduce the cost of production.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
The President also talked about PPPs on water purchase agreement. This is good, but what we need to look at is how much it is going to cost the local wananchi . We need to have legislation that will make sure the cost is lowered.
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11 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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