David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2051 to 2060 of 2182.

• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we have thousands of massive rivers in our country. Whenever there is rainfall, like what we have experienced in the past one month, there are floods everywhere. In Narok to be specific, we have had destruction of property as well as loss of lives because of this runoff water. In the northern area, which is arid, we have had a lot of runoff water which has caused destruction. If we would have tapped this runoff water, we would have avoided those floods, in addition to irrigating the very fertile areas in our country. The arid areas in ... view
• 10 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I am on intervention. I want to raise the issue of gender and regional balancing. With a lot of respect, I have seen that you have only given an opportunity to men. 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
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Let me start by thanking the Leader of the Majority Party, His Excellency Aden Duale for bringing this Petition to the House. Hon. Aden Duale, the Petition you have brought touches on the lives of six million Kenyans living with disabilities. We may not have a gift or any present to give you, but we have a basket full of prayers for you for bringing this Petition to this House. May God always bless you. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to give a little history of persons living with disabilities in this country, we have really come from far. We were at a place where persons with disabilities were considered, in some communities, as a curse. Some communities killed them at birth. Birth attendants were given specific instructions to kill them at birth. For the Maasai community, which I come from, any child born with disability was given cholesterol as the first meal. When cholesterol coalesces in the intestines, the child would not feed on anything else and The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: it would die of hunger. For the Samburu community, from which some hon. Members are from, such kids were given sniffing tumbako mixed with water. This very bitter water will perforate the intestines. Such child will die in a lot of pain. I have rescued children who have been locked in sheep pens. A case in point is Ben Mbusia, whom we rescued in 2014. He was a child of 16 years who had been locked up in a sheep pen for more than 10 years. The language of the child was like that of sheep. He could only pronounce ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: A living person. view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, forgive me for that. As a country, we ratified the United Nations Convention and the Rights of Persons with Disability in 2008. Therefore, it is domesticated and it is part of our laws. It expressly says that persons with disability should access services. We have persons with hearing impairment. You can imagine a person with hearing impairment going to a doctor and they need an interpreter. Some of these issues that we take to doctors are confidential. You cannot just say I have gonorrhea anyhow. If you have to tell a second party so that he or she ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Maybe Members are not aware that I acquired my disability at the age of 12 through an injection. I was taken to hospital at night and the doctor was asleep, who is my good friend now. He retired and he lives in Naivasha. Whenever I pass through Naivasha, I must meet with him to discuss things. We have also had cases from Busia or Bungoma where several children became disabled courtesy of injections. But let us also understand that there is no doctor who goes out there with the intention of harming ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Mistakes happen. We have drivers who have posed great danger to lives and people lose lives on our roads. They did not go there with that particular intention. We have well learned pilots, but at times, things go wrong and we have lost thousands of people. That is not their intention. I can confirm to this House that there is no doctor who took the oath during graduation who will come out with an intention of harming or killing anybody. There is nothing they will gain from killing anybody. These are human beings and humans are to err. When they ... view
• 22 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: First of all, the KNH was supposed to be a referral hospital. Nowadays, it has become a hospital that treats even common colds. This has increased the population in that hospital. Some of our wards have 200 patients instead of the normal accepted 50 beds capacity. You can imagine a doctor being in charge of 200 people instead of 50. We have doctors who work for almost 24 hours. If you look at the staff at KNH, especially the medical fraternity, 70 per cent are on training, but they are already qualified. We call them registrars. They are already medical ... view