David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1641 to 1650 of 2182.

• 14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Speaker has all the right to balance regions, counties, gender and persons with disabilities. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute. As far as this matter is concerned, I am independent because I do not have a constituency office. I am very independent when contributing to this particular debate. From the outset, I totally oppose the backdoor amendments that are not in line with our Constitution. According to the Fourth Schedule, the Senate is supposed to oversee the county governments. The county governments have several functions as outlined in ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: governments. One House, which is the lower House, is just hanging and has nowhere it belongs. We oversee the national Government. County assemblies oversee county governments. What does the Senate oversee? I have seen them summoning Cabinet Secretaries who are supposed to be overseen by the national Government. I do not really know what questions they ask them. What do they oversee? The functions of the national Government are very specific and are overseen by the National Assembly. We allocate funds. We are the ones who know how much we have given to a ministry. When we inquire about the ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it looks like the Committee is not prepared. Even the Chairman is not here. Therefore, I would like to request that we move this particular Order to the next Sitting. view
• 14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the same fate applies to this particular Motion. The Chair of the Committee is not here. view
• 14 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wish that this Motion is stood down just like the others as the Chair of the Committee is not here. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think our dear Hon. Member is bringing Meru politics into the House. This is just purely politics. I think he is out of order to bring those little clashes and Meru politics into the House. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I congratulate Hon. Ruweida Obo for finding it fit to table this particular Motion. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Madam Speaker…Oh it is now, Mr. Speaker. I realise the Chair has changed. The biggest burden in this country is the disease burden. There is no better person to talk about the disease burden than this House because we know a week never passes without a Member of Parliament doing on average two or three harambees per week in relation to either a person who is gone because of disease or one who needs to pay medical bills after treatment. Therefore, anything that will help to reduce the disease burden must be supported in earnest by this House. The issue ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: because of lifestyle diseases and start challenging people to live healthy lifestyles so that in the case of Kenya with a culture of alcohol and nyama choma which leads a lot to these lifestyle diseases can reduce. We can even make it mandatory, for example, that every Tuesday morning before Members of Parliament come back to the House, they all go to Nyayo Stadium and play some serious sport because we want to reduce that. We must lead by example, Madam Speaker. view
• 13 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view