Eng. Ephraim Mwangi Maina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: At times I have been misunderstood when the youth are branded without any recourse in law and kind of sentenced. One time, I had to personally face a team of inquiry as a Member of Parliament (MP) because I stood firm when about 30 youth died mysteriously. When I faced the inquiry team, I told them that as far as I was concerned, we are in a country where the youth do not have employment, but still we educate more and more. As long as they are not engaged, as a society, we have to tolerate what is happening. The ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: We have a group in Kisii and I have also heard of Baghdad Boys in Nairobi. That is branding of the youth. We abide by the rule of law, and we are progressing. I do not want to say that Kenya should be on the same standards of the European and Nordic countries where even the Prime Minister walks on the streets and earns a humble salary. We are yet to get there. We are a developing country and have to move at our own pace. Nevertheless, life is dear. I think one of the Commandments of the Almighty is: ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not need information because I have enough information on this subject, unless the person has something that comes from some sphere. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: I agree with him, but there is something I want to tell him. A human being behaves in the manner the society has modeled him. I am not condoning, but when we frustrate our security forces that are armed without knowing their mental capacity--- We have cases where security forces shoot one another, something that was not common in the past. No one condones extrajudicial killings. All we need to do is to ensure that our young boys and girls in security forces and teaching faculties are well catered for. Madam Temporary Speaker, I also wish to inform the Ford ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: resort to these kinds of killings. A society whose population cannot put food on the table, cannot find drugs in a dispensary and where education is a preserve of those who are endowed with wealth, is one that contributes to extrajudicial killings because of frustrations. It is true that our people in most places can hardly place a meal on the table. I would wish that we address these things as we also address other freedoms we are looking for. Kenya is a great country that is endowed by God. Let us take Kenya back to where it was. There ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Therefore, let us create the Kenya that we knew, where cattle, wheat, and sheep used to be transported by train from Nanyuki. A country where the Maasais used to deliver their cattle to the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) and they would be paid on the spot and go back home. Let us relook and create the Kenya that we knew. Let us go back and create a Kenya that God meant to be, that is, a country with good soil, rainfall and sunshine all year round. We should actually be importing workers because we have enough to pay them, and ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to welcome the students and tell them that they should be very confident Kenyans. They are lucky to have come from an area where we have very notable people in this House. They should remember that our Speaker was one time a young student in one of the schools in Bungoma. I hope they will get to your rank or beyond. We are looking at girls in this country doing much better than ourselves. I believe if these children follow your footsteps, they will go far. We have the likes of Sen. Khaniri ... view
• 10 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. . view
• 10 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, do not count that time which is wasted because of that bench. I stand here to speak about Mzee Moi as our former Vice President, as my personal friend and an acquaintance. There are many good tributes about Mzee Moi, but when a man is in power he is clothed in some mythical gown. One has to look beyond that gown to see the human self. Mzee Moi was a humane person irrespective of what anybody may say. Mr. Speaker, Sir, Mzee Moi introduced milk in schools to the children, stood by the roadside to greet some ... view
• 10 Feb 2020 in Senate: He was an extremely religious man. The Bible was always next to him. If you went there, he was the one who would say a prayer before you had a cup of tea. That signifies a very religious man who believed in his God in earnest. Mzee Moi was very simplistic. When you went to him as a person, even his eating habits were simplistic. His most favourite food was boiled green maize. Whenever you visited for breakfast, other people would ask to be served with bacon, sausage and so on. However, he would stick to very basic healthy food. ... view