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• 30 Jul 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we have a title called “Hon. Members.” When we sit here as Senators and it transpires that somebody has cast a vote on behalf of two Senators who are not in this House, how does it reflect on our integrity as hon. Members? There are things we should draw a red line. We cannot degenerate to that level. How do we trust each other if we sit in this House, but when you realize that your colleague is not there and you want to carry the vote, you vote on their behalf? This is a matter that ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to also contribute to this Bill. I start by thanking Sen. Abass, the Senator for Wajir County, who has conceived the Fire and Rescue Services Professionals Bill (Senate Bills No.55 of 2023). That is a good industry from our senior citizen, Sen. Abass. I commend him for being a very good representative of the people of Wajir County, which is one of the very expansive counties. If I recall, it covers more than 55,000 square kilometres, with a population of 781,000. So, for Senator Abass to conceive and present ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: deal with fire disasters. Two weeks ago, I had a fire disaster in my own county, which is Nyamira County, in West Mugirango Constituency where I was born, in a market called Kebirigo. You will be surprised that our county government was not able to respond to that fire disaster. I am saying this with a very heavy heart and with vicarious embarrassment on behalf of my governor. He was not able to send a firefighting machine to go and stop that fire disaster because the only firefighting vehicle we have in the county government of Nyamira was lacking brakes. ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Then the composition, we do not need all these Principal Secretaries (PSs). They are not executing any function of firefighting. Why are we then proposing that we pick principal secretaries responsible for matters dealing with fire prevention? I am not sure that we have a principal secretary that has been assigned these duties. Sen. Abass, I have my serious reservations that there is a PS who is running a department called fire prevention and disaster risk management. I have my doubts. However, we can replace that with a County Executive Committee Member (CECM) in our counties whose docket will include ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to be informed by the Senator for Kakamega, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. He should not inform me of the Cabinet Secretaries who have been nominated this afternoon. I am giving him a caveat. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, he must inform me what is relevant to the contribution I am making on the Floor but not on the Cabinet Secretaries. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my sympathies with Sen. Gloria who has suffered a terrible loss of expectation this afternoon from the ambitions she was harbouring of joining the Cabinet. However, I assure her that when we form our Government in 2027, we will consider her. The point I was making, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, under the Fourth Schedule, paragraph 12, firefighting services are fully devolved. I do not think there is any future The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: president who will create a department for a function like firefighting that is fully devolved. The point I am also making is that this Bill is too heavy on membership. If you read through, this Board has three PSs sitting in that board. That is too heavy. Remember that somewhere, we have said that they will be paid some allowances. Other than that, you have a PS for Finance and they may not give us any money. They will tell you that you have already gotten your allocation. You have a PS Interior. We do not need policemen to help ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Let the resignation letter be addressed to the governor. You are a board member of the county so you should tender your resignation to the governor if you want to resign. You do not need to address that resignation to the Cabinet Secretary. This is a devolved function. A county governor is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He is a mini- President. Payment of allowances can be restricted to the Salaries and Renumeration Commission (SRC). There is nothing much the Cabinet Secretary will do to set remuneration. Under the Constitution, this is a service that is reserved for SRC. Therefore, ... view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wanted to seek guidance from you and from the Senate Majority Leader. We started this process together and we were doing this process to carry Kenyans with us. We are doing this as Kenyans and in the best interest of Kenyans. There were views that were collated by members of our Secretariat and I appreciate the work that has been done so far. I plead through our Leadership because I have spoken to the Senate Minority Leader and I hope he can reach out to the Senate Majority Leader; that you allow us, some ... view