Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: We need to protect these farms so that we still pride ourselves as a country that has food security for its people. view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: I support. view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise on a point of order to inquire from Sen. Mandago whether he is order to only refer to the Muslims in order to show their fairness in distribution of jobs across the country, while the country has 42 tribes. If Sen. Mandago wants to prosecute his point of order, let him table before the House the appointments that have been made to all parastatals in the last two years. We will then say there is fairness in the whole country. If it is a matter of us being a House that is fair, let ... view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have had a very interesting afternoon from the diverse comments that we have heard from Senators who have spoken on this matter. I am speaking as somebody who has personally gone through an experience of what it means to be profiled when seeking public office. I heard Sen. Osotsi give a chronology that when Kenyans were given an opportunity to apply for these positions, the first list was rejected because there could have been a candidate that the Government had in mind. Around 2011, I applied to be the Chairperson of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption ... view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: My contribution before this House this afternoon is that we should give equal opportunity to a Kenyan who has the requisite experience and has expressed interest to serve in the public service or in any parastatal. It is not about us trying to profile anybody. If the unfairness was regarding an Embu, I would have the same sentiments. If the discrimination is towards a Mkamba, I would have the same sentiments. If it is towards somebody from Coast, Sen. Faki's county or Garissa County, I would take the same stand because there are many Kenyans who cannot drop names so ... view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: proud of that heritage, that he belongs to the Embu Sub-tribe. Sen. Wambua is proud that he is from the Kamba Community, and Sen. Faki, the same. In making appointments to public bodies, parastatals, Principal Secretaries, or Cabinet Secretaries, everybody, and all tribes want to see that they are represented. You cannot tell me that the Kalenjin will sit easily if they see President Ruto appointing Cabinet Secretaries and there is not even a single Kalenjin. They will not sit easy. They will question and say, where is our representation in the national Government? So, it is the same way ... view
• 1 Oct 2024 in Senate: EACC, and I do not want to have any doubt that EACC has nothing personal against Mr. David Kibet Kemei. I do not think anybody at the EACC has anything personal against this guy. However, they have written to Parliament objecting, okay, on the basis that there was a court judgement where the Kenya Medical Training College (KMTC) board was surcharged. I do not know how the Committee was able to navigate around that objection that was raised by the EACC. If that objection was from someone like Sen. Munyi Mundigi, I would say that maybe those are his political ... view
• 26 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to comment on the statement raised by the Senator for Nandi, Sen. Cherarkey, touching on low returns for tea farmers. If you visit counties like Nyamira, Kericho, Bomet and Nandi where tea is grown, farmers are crying. In Nyamira, for example, where I am also a tea farmer, we have Kebirigo and Nyansiongo tea factories. Our farmers earned Kshs24 as bonus. Others in some regions are earning bonuses to the tune of Kshs60. Do our farmers not live in Kenya? The tea that is exported from Mombasa is supposed to benefit everybody. We cannot ... view
• 25 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is embarrassing to the legal profession that Sen. Cherarkey, a lawyer, does not know the full names of senior lawyers, like the Cabinet Secretary for Education. The Cabinet Secretary for Education is Julius Migos Ogamba. He is your senior in the profession; you ought to have known his full name. view