21 Apr 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I congratulate the Ad Hoc Committee led by my brother, Sen. Sakaja. I will go straight to the thematic areas that they have raised. On the area of health, we have seen the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Health giving out different directions as to how the public is supposed to carry out itself. There is this issue of being mandatory for one to put on masks in public places. Today, in Kakamega County, the Governor has decreed that anybody who is found not putting on a mask in a public area will be arrested and ...
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21 Apr 2020 in Senate:
I want to call upon Governor Oparanya not to arrest citizens of Kakamega, but to purchase masks and give them for free. It is the responsibility of the Government to cushion wananchi, especially during these trying moments. On the thematic area of finance, we have seen county governments misappropriating funds. We have allegations of county governments taking advantage of
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21 Apr 2020 in Senate:
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21 Apr 2020 in Senate:
this situation and taking advantage of emergency ways to misappropriate funds. I want to call upon the Committee on Public Accounts and Investments of the Senate, and the respective county assemblies, to look deep into the appropriations of funds at the county level and they must bring to book all those officers at county level who are trying to misappropriate funds. I have already convened a meeting with the Committee on Public Investments and Accounts of Kakamega County and we are looking in depth on how the County Government of Kakamega is spending the Kshs110 million allocated to fight this ...
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, he is out of order.
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Motion. First of all, to commend the national Government, together with the county governments, in trying to put measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. As we congratulate the national Government, we would like to encourage them to ensure that they keep the common mwananchi at heart. I am disturbed by the manner in which the dusk-to-dawn curfew is being implemented. We have seen police officers harassing and beating up citizens of this country. As much as we want to implement these directives, let us implement them in the confines ...
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
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31 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are going to have so many monies being returned to the national Treasury just because some of the county assemblies have not done supplementary budgets. Therefore, I want to encourage county assemblies to reconvene and consider doing supplementary budgets so that we can the absorb monies meant for devolution.
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