David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Bible says. Since our children are with their teachers for nine months in a year, they should be good role models to our children. Let us come to parenting. Is there a problem of parenting? Is there a problem whenever there is no father figure in that particular family? I see my time is almost up because it has been taken. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, sometimes, when kids have no father figure in the house, they tend to go astray. That is according to research. If you have five kids and all of them have different genes and DNA because they are from different communities, you will find that sometimes they have problems intermingling within the family and this is extended to the school. We should also try to… view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Government should also come in. Why are hard drugs available in our country? Why are bars built a few metres from our schools? The Government should regulate and make sure that hard drugs and alcohol are not available next to schools. Apart from having approved schools, it may also be time for the country to rethink the issue of corporal punishment. When there was corporal punishment in schools, cases of strikes and burning of schools were few and far apart. But now, without corporal punishment, we find that there is an ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I will gladly register him. The issue of land in Kenya, apart from being emotive, we have not capitalised on its use. A high percentage of our land mass is not being used for production. A large chunk of our land is owned by absentee landlords. When a big chunk of land is owned by a few individuals, the rest of the people work as slaves in that land. Therefore, you will find poverty will always be predominant in our country. I have gone though this Report and it is nice. When we liberalise land like ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Today, I read a statement about what happened three days ago in Isiolo, where seven governors and several Cabinet Secretaries were racing in wheel chairs to create awareness about persons living with disabilities and the economic part… view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I support this Report. view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. You know you make this House to be a bit lively sometimes, because it is in the Report. I believe so. This is an idea whose time has come. At the outset, I support the Report of the Pan- African Parliament. The resolutions are not only beneficial to our country but to the whole continent of Africa. I want to specifically deal with the resolution on free trade and free movement of persons. Whenever we have an economic bloc, because the world is competitive and moving towards having economic blocs in all corners… The ... view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: congratulate those who come from Kenya and have been elected in Pan-African Parliament. We want to tell them that: You are our watchdog; you must make sure that you always put our country first. In the EAC bloc, we have the East African Council for Persons with Disabilities. I also believe in Pan-African Parliament we should have slots that are set aside for PWDs, because according to the UN Convention on the Rights of PWDs, ‘nothing about us without us’. If there are policies being enacted in the Pan-African Parliament, then the issue of PWDs should be reflected. Thank you ... view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me begin by, first, congratulating the Chairman of the Committee and his entire membership for a job well done. They took this matter seriously because matters of environment are no longer small matters that need to be taken lightly. They are matters that affect us daily. For a long time, we have ignored environmental pollution and we are now facing the wrath of it. Therefore, I am happy that this Committee has taken up this matter. I am truly surprised because if you look at the observations of the Committee, Observation No.7 states ... view
• 9 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: then went ahead and approved a residential property right next to LDKL without taking the relevant measures to ensure that LDKL meets certain environmental standards and conditions for the sake of the residents of that estate. Therefore, it is worrying because in the last couple of months, we have seen buildings coming down because they are built on riparian land and in the wrong places yet the same NEMA officials approved the construction of those buildings in those areas. It means that NEMA needs a thorough audit, to self-search and change the way they do business as an institution. It ... view