David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1661 to 1670 of 2182.

• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Surely, this project seems not to be viable and what the Committee has is half-baked information. If it is true that Kshs3.9 billion was used to construct 7 kilometers of fence then that is not only very expensive, but it is also corruption of the highest order. If we succeed in passing the laws on shooting corrupt officials then we… view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I think my friend the Hon. Member is ageing because I have just said Kshs3.9 billion for 7 kilometers and that is what is in the Report that I have. Age also comes with a bit of other issues. For sure, having this fence will cut our trade relationships with Somalia and we do not have any problem with Somalia as a state. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: We have a problem with Al Shabaab . Al Shabaab does not belong to a community, a tribe, religion; they are criminals just like the ones who break into our banks and hijack our vehicles. So, we should deal with them as such. As a pastoralist, I know that putting up 700 kilometers of fence means closing our pastures. We need movement of our livestock. At times when there is a lot of drought in Kenya we go to Somali and Tanzania. Our lifestyle cannot be cut simply because of fighting a terror gang. We have seen people from Kiambu, ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The Leader of the Majority Party requested us to give solutions. The best solution, for me, is to have a buffer zone of around 5 kilometers like it is with the Nyayo Tea Zones. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: This is because 5kilometers times 700kilometers will give us 3,500 square kilometers of land which is equivalent to one million acres. Why do we not have these one million acres as a buffer zone and we subdivide into farmlands? We would then give it to Kenyan citizens, give them jembe s, cereals, cooking oil and AK 47. Once we do that, I can assure you we will have a buffer zone that the Al Shabaab will not come through. view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Remember there was a time when there was problem in Mpeketoni. After Independence, the people of Mpeketoni asked that they should be given tractors to cultivate their land. I remember the founding father said he would bring them tractors with two wheels. Indeed, tractors with two wheels were delivered and the area even has an MP from that end. They cultivated part of Boni Forest and it has since become safer. So, if we can have a buffer zone of 5kilometers in diameter and 700kilometers length, we will have one million acres. Those residents will use the money that would ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Our Kenyan citizens are brave enough. If we fought for independence and chased away the whites using rusted pangas when they had guns and other machinery, we cannot be defeated by Al Shabaab . So, instead of this issue of fencing, let us have our own residents cultivating on the buffer zone. What has brought about all these issues was the Sessional Paper No. 10 of 1965, which was about marginalising 80 per cent of Kenyans at the expense of putting more resources in high potential areas. In that Sessional Paper, high potential areas – and that was archaic thinking ... view
• 12 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: potential areas which we can equate to production of sukuma wiki. No country in the world has ever become rich because of production of sukuma wiki. Countries have become rich because of tourism, oil, and geothermal power. It is high time this House thought of reversing that Sessional Paper 10 of 1965. That way, we will open up the 80 per cent of land mass in the north and the borders, including the border between Kenya and Tanzania so that we can deal with this issue of view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. We have three arms of Government, namely, the Legislative, Executive and Judiciary. Every arm of the Government has its specific roles. Our role in this House as the legislative arm of the Government is to make laws. view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: It beats logic for a committee of this House to go out there and purport to send the Auditor-General to audit policies, research papers, feasibility studies and come back and table that document in the House. The purported take over is not factual. Even if it were factual, the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, which touches on labour issues should also have been involved. I am a Member of that Committee. The PIC decided that this is what they will oversee. They will have the right to sniff something that is happening in any policy of the Government. ... view