28 May 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second.
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I hear the Senate Majority side is whipping their Members from the comfort of their chairs.
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
I rise in support of the Disbursement Schedule and I will make a few comments on this. I have looked at the First Schedule and I associate myself fully with the comments by the Senate Majority Leader. We are headed towards end of May. This is when we are trying to approve this Schedule for certain cadres of public servants in our counties to begin receiving their pay yet they have worked for this number of months. Something must happen. A decision has to be made and this Senate has a role to play in making that firm decision led ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
The issue of Community Health Promoters (CHPs) is becoming a national nuisance. We cannot live in a country where people who have been contracted to offer a service must take to the streets for them to be paid for the services which they were hired and contracted. A solution to the CHPs must be found. We must not sit pretty in the Senate knowing, as it were, that health is a devolved function. I want to challenge the Senate Committee on Health, which is led by Senator Mandago. I know they have tried to do what they have tried to ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
The last time I checked, that construction had been done up to around 40 per cent. However, some counties have already received the Government share for CAIP yet they have not even done five per cent of those constructions. My appeal to the decision- makers and policy-makers in relation to the CAIP, is that those counties that have demonstrated a willingness and even committed their funds for the construction of these CAIPs be fast-tracked to get their share of the Government funding to complete their CAIPs. If you look at the Schedule for Kitui County, it is blank all through. ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
that was taken at the national level that they should be constructing. The least that we can do is to match the amount of money that counties have spent on these CAIPs to ensure completion and utilization of the facilities. Secondly, in the Second Schedule is the issue of court fines. I do not know whether this reputation is right. I request Sen. Roba to help me with this. I do not know whether there is a correlation between the level of crime in a county and the amount of money that is allocated to those counties as part of ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
The Senator for Kakamega County is wondering which heaven this is. If there is a correlation between crime and the amount of money that accrues from court fines, then the people of Kitui County are doing extremely well. I cannot compare them with the people from other counties that I do not want to mention. This money is very little money. It is realized revenue and I do not see why we should stagger this amount of money through the Committee. Money that is as little as this should be disbursed once. It is realized revenue and not money that ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
I am comfortable, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. A bit of institutional memory---
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
Well guided, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will leave the institutional memory thing out and just go straight to this matter. There is a reason we had agreed on a kamukunji . We wanted to consult amongst ourselves informally and take a position. After which, we would move the Motion and fast-track its passage. We were doing well on the day that we had our kamukunji . However, we had other business. We received a visitor and it took the entire morning. Therefore, we did not return to where we had stopped when the visitor arrived in order to conclude ...
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27 May 2025 in Senate:
Yes, there is a team for devolution. It even got to a point where people had to buy specific ties for purposes of identity. Sen. Cheruiyot was the one who went to shop for those ties. He brought ties for people who are now calling themselves Team Kenya. Let us just take a little more time so we can agree on this. I thank you.
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