Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1931 to 1940 of 2488.

• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: 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
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: On the issue of Article 97, which proposes to transfer the 47 women representatives from the National Assembly, we have proposed that the prevailing situation where the counties elect 47 women be retained. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: The Committee went through the entire BBI Report and noted two crucial facts. One, we have not seen any recommendations made by any stakeholder to the BBI that can form justification for the 47 Women Representatives to be transferred from the National Assembly to the Senate. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Secondly, we noted that the 47 Women Representatives play a very critical role in being a link to very many vulnerable women groups. We noted that the Women Representatives from constituencies are given a kitty of Kshs7 million for each constituency that is used for the benefit of women. If you take an example of Kakamega County that has 12 constituencies, each of those constituencies is going to lose Kshs7 million. Madam Deputy Speaker, this will cause a lot suffering to our women because there was a purpose why this fund was created and put under the management and responsibility ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I am simply making a Statement of the Committee. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. On that particular Article, it is the recommendation of the Committee that the composition of the Senators be retained as it is currently. 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
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, on the issue of Article 123 that is proposed to be deleted, the Committee made note that Article 123 plays a very important role for the Senate because it is the one that gives guidelines on how decisions are made in the Senate. This Committee has proposed that the proposal to delete Article 123 from the Constitution should be disregarded and the prevailing position retained, so that Senators who are delegates from counties are allowed to cast their votes as delegates. Madam Deputy Speaker, we have borrowed this from various jurisdictions where Senators represent states. They do ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, on the issue of Ward Development Fund, the Committee supports the creation of the Ward Development Fund. However, it makes a recommendation that the issue of how much should go to counties should be left to legislation. This is because there may be need in future to increase the 5 per cent, so that we do not need to do a referendum anytime there is need to increase the 5 per cent. The Committee recommends that this 5 per cent should be increased upwards for counties. We have the view that 5 per cent is on the ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary speaker, I had made my remarks yesterday. I was merely seconding the Motion. The concluding remarks I wanted to make is that we are now at the peak of the COVID-19 in this country. Some of us who have had some reports from the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), we know that there are a number of our staff and colleagues who have contracted COVID-19. Let us be realistic as hon. Members and take note of the fact that we are now at the peak of COVID-19. We should agree with our leadership that they should put in place ... view