Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1491 to 1500 of 1917.

• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: The point of order I am making is that the Chair of the Senate Committee on Education, my neighbor and very good friend, should not handle this Cabinet Secretary with gloves. The Cabinet Secretary should be summoned to appear before the House and respond to these very serious issues that touch on the welfare of our children. These are not light issues. They are very serious. We need to remind the Cabinet Secretary, Education, that we are not the House of Lords. We are people who have been elected by the people of this country. We enjoy a democratic mandate ... view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I want you to direct that, that answer by the Chair of the Senate Committee on Education is not adequate. He should go back, summon the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Education and then respond to the issues that were raised by Sen. Kwamboka to her satisfaction. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I want to join my colleagues in thanking the Chair of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights, Sen. Cherargei, for raising this very important question on agriculture. We are aware that there is this slogan that says that agriculture is the backbone of our economy. I think that the statistics indicate that about 35 per cent of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is actually agriculture. Agriculture plays a very key role in sustaining our economy and that cannot be gainsaid. I think that the policies of our good Government should not ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: For the past two weeks, I have had serious engagements with the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Hon. Munya, on issues dealing with tea. Farmers from Nyamira have suffered a lot as they engage in tea farming. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, just like my good friends, Sen. Murkomen and Sen. Cherargei are my colleagues in the legal profession, the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture, Hon. Munya, is a colleague in the legal profession. We enjoy the same relationship with my colleagues. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this engagement by the leaders of Nyamira with the Cabinet Secretary, Agriculture, has culminated in some regulations that have been gazetted by the Ministry of Agriculture, where we are going to have a democratic process of picking the leaders of tea farmers. We are going to have a good marketing system for our tea and registration clerks in our tea collection centres. This will reduce the suffering that the farmers have been facing, where they have been waiting at tea buying centres for the Kenya Tea Development Agency (KTDA) to collect their tea for several hours. The ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: with solutions that can help our farmers. If a country does not have food security, nobody is safe. All of us are not safe. This is a very important issue and as the Committee looks into it, I hope that we will also have an opportunity of summoning the Cabinet Secretary, so that he can appear before us as the people’s representatives and explain himself. With those remarks, I support. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to make a Statement pursuant to Standing Order No. 51(1) (a) of our Senate Standing Orders. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Standing Order No. 51(1) (a) provides that a Committee Chairperson may make a Statement relating to a matter for which the Committee is responsible in fulfillment of provisions of the said Standing Orders. view