David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1981 to 1990 of 2182.

• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order No.43, I rise to make a Statement regarding the 11th Assembly of State Parties on the Convention and the Rights of Persons Living with Disabilities (CRBD), whose theme was: “Leaving no one behind through fully implementation of the CRBD”. view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, we learnt a lot especially regarding the need of persons living with disabilities, especially psycho-social disabilities, a topic which Kenya as a country needs to research on further. We also learnt that a sizeable percentage of our prisoners are persons living with disabilities and have psycho-social disabilities thus the need for psycho-social support rather than confinement or imprisonment. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we also shared our achievements as a nation. I am happy to report that Kenya is among the best achievers in the disability rights now competing with America and Europe. Kenya has put in place measures and policies of achieving disability rights for instance, Access to Government Procurement Opportunities (AGPO) by persons living with disabilities, importation of duty free vehicles by persons living with disabilities, presidential directives of ensuring that learners living with disabilities who write using either their mouth or legs for lack of hands be given enough time and space to complete their examinations, among other ... view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Despite all those achievements, as a nation, corruption still remains the only detrimental factor to development, leading to deprivation of persons living with disability privileges and rights. For instance, for the past five years, the Ministry of Labour has been sending delegates without disabilities to all international conferences for persons living with disabilities, without considering the theme of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons living with Disabilities of “nothing about us without us”. This is stealing funds and opportunities meant for persons living with disabilities. view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: I, therefore, wish to appeal to the Ministry of Labour, as we prepare to attend the Global Disability Summit in London, which Kenya co-organises with the UK, that the Kenya delegation to the said summit should constitute two-thirds of persons with disability and the leader of the delegation must be a person living with disability. view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me start by thanking the Chair of the Committee together with the Members for such an elaborate report because it shows the seriousness of this House in dealing with matters that affect Kenyans. The Report is direct and is dealing with emotive issues in our country. Land is very emotive and I hope this House will deal with this issue with a lot of seriousness so that it will set precedent on the importance and seriousness that we attach to public land. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is ... view
• 26 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: In the past, it has been very difficult even for the Government to develop this country in terms of infrastructure because of prices of land that are hiked when there is an intention of the Government to buy such land. This is a clear case of inflated land prices by a few cartels and individuals who want to benefit from proceeds of corruption. Let this be a precedent by this House that we will not condone at all issues of land grabbing and inflated prices for the benefit of a few individuals. I support the recommendations that are given by ... view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. From the outset, I take this opportunity to thank the BAC for such a good presentation on the Budget of the Financial Year 2018/2019 to this House. I must say it was an impressive presentation. I was particularly impressed by the reduction of the NYS funds from Kshs25 billion to Kshs18 billion. This is very The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 6 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: important because as a country and as a House, that is given authority by our Constitution to oversee the Executive, whenever we realise that there are loopholes of wastage of public funds, we should fire the first shot by reducing their budget. The reduction of the NYS funds was directed to the empowerment of our youth especially in training. We have realised, as a country, that we have invested so much on social protection strategies leaving out empowerment in terms of training of our youth. We have had the Youth Enterprise Development Fund, the Uwezo Fund and other funds that ... view