5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not sure whether you can hear me.
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, kindly protect me from the other Senators who are not giving me a chance.
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. In the Senate of the United States of America (USA) where we borrow a lot from, even the chairs are measured, such that the entire Senate people are equal. There is neither a tall or short person. It is the principle. May I emphasize from the very beginning that all counties are equal in this Senate. So, when choosing students, let us not be told that these are the best students and so, we pick from Nairobi, Mombasa and Kisumu counties. What about Tana River County? We want to see equality in this House ...
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, without revisiting your direction---
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if I could clarify this issue? It is very important. If a student has been taken from Nairobi City County, the next lot in terms of waiting and those to be selected should be from other counties. It should be circulatory.
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I take this opportunity to thank His Excellency the President for his exposition of public policy, where he needed us, as a House, to support him in his plans to make reality of the pledges that he made to the people of Kenya. The President talked about the drought situation and I would like to begin from there. Drought is ravaging counties in the north and those on the far side of the Coast like Tana River, which is my county. He talked about 3.5 million Kenyans who are affected
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
by drought in 23 Arid and Semi-Arid counties, mine being one of them. The issue of drought has been with us for a long time. In reaction to this, I would have loved to see the President take definitive action to help our people in these areas. During the campaign period, the President spoke about a Marshall Plan. He also recorded economic pacts with various counties, including Tana River. It is the desire of the people of Tana River and many other people in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) that the Marshall Plan is implemented as fast as possible. What ...
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is what I hope that the policy makers listening to this speech will help us implement. In this country there has been a deliberate economic segregation of some areas. Sessional Papers have legitimized this economic segregation of areas such as the one I represent.
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5 Oct 2022 in Senate:
We pray that the President, in dealing with this matter of hunger, will effect a Marshall plan. It is our prayer and hope that resources will be made available, not to just save lives in the short term as has always been the case with previous administrations, but that resources will be made available to our counties to help in production so that hunger can be an issue of the past.
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