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• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I may not use the entire 11 minutes because I had already summed up my thoughts. I will proceed from where I had stopped and emphasize that community volunteers have always been based on the concept that people want to volunteer their services to enhance community health care. I still want to persuade the Sponsor of this Bill that if we can move this Bill from the idea of having community health workers to community health volunteers, it will be very helpful to our counties. In terms of the wage bill - if we all ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Zani, who came up with this Bill has fantastic ideas, and we should not kill this baby. we should save it. I propose that we should propose amendments that will make this Bill retain the original intention of community healthcare workers, which is volunteerism, and remove the technical word of them being workers from this Bill. I think that if we make a few of those amendments, this is a Bill that I fully support. I applaud the people in my county of Nyamira and other counties, who have volunteered their services towards enhancing healthcare within our counties ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I am told that there is a point of order. I am getting some interruption from Sen. Cherargei. I do not know what point of order he has. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. In winding up, I fully support this Bill with the suggested amendments. Thank you. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Motion that is before the House. This Committee was set up to act as a link on the oversight role and on how effective the Government has put in place measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. We all can take judicial notice of the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic is still causing serious negative effects on our country, including loss of lives. Today, we received reports that we have lost the dear lives of seven Kenyans, and 184 Kenyans have tested positive. Yesterday, we lost the dear lives ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: really evidence that we still need this Committee to act as an interlink between this House and the Government. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the biggest challenge we are still facing is how effectively governors used money that was meant to combat this pandemic. You will be surprised that this Committee has been able to only visit two regions; that is, Meru region and Coast region. I am sure there are several parts of this country where this Committee needs to visits to see whether there is any evidence on the ground confirming that money that was meant to put in ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for also giving me a chance to make my contribution to this very good initiative of coming up with the Community Health Services Bill by Sen. (Dr.) Zani. I had the opportunity to listen to contributions that were made by stakeholders during public participation. I also know that this Bill has quite some support across the country. However, I want to be very pragmatic. In a way, I want to make a proposal to my good friend Sen. (Dr.) Zani that going forward, you should consider the views that are being expressed on this Floor. ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: is what led us to go to court and argue that issue before the High Court with a hope that for once and for all, the High Court will come up with a definition that creates some clarity on what is a money Bill. I am saying this because you know that we have passed very progressive Bills. I sympathize with my friend Sen. (Arch.) Kasanga. She came up with a fantastic mental health Bill. We debated and thought it was a very good idea. When it went to the National Assembly, it was killed on that excuse that it ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, they will be told you have employed people here. You have new cadre of workers in the county and you are not paying them minimum wages. You have not allowed them to join trade unions. That will create a major problem. In fact, it will be a messy affair than what we have currently. Let us also be careful that we do not overburden counties. In my county, the request from the department of health, the County Executive Committee Member (CEC) of Health requires about Ksh211 million for adequate supply of medicine to hospitals. We are only ... view
• 30 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Mwaruma has raised a very important issue before the House. If you follow the report on the Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC), you will note that there is no region that has been affected by the poor inhabitant like the Coast region. It is only there that you will find people we call ‘absentee landlords’; people who own big tracks of land that should ordinarily be owned by the local people, yet they are somewhere in the diaspora. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view