Erick Okong'o Mogeni

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• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This House should be concerned about the welfare of the 49 lives of the other doctors who are still in Cuba. We should not take lightly the concerns that have been raised by the professional body that looks after the welfare of doctors. What is worrying is that there is likelihood that this doctor committed suicide. It means that there is a possibility that we have sent our doctors to Cuba and they are being subjected to conditions that have exposed them to serious depression. We would rather have our doctors back to our country ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate the Mover of this Bill; my neighbour, Sen. Sen. Cheruiyot, for a job well done. Other than Kericho County being a tea growing county for large-scale farmers, they are neighbours to the east of the highlands in Nyamira County, who are also tea growers, although they do it on a small-scale basis. Tea as a commercial crop makes significant contribution to the economy of this country. So, the intervention by Sen. Cheruiyot is something that we should all applaud. I hope that with the passage of this Bill, we can have some ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, tea has got a very long history from the date it was introduced in the country, way back in 1900. The first time the Government’s attention was placed on tea, way back in 1964, the acreage on tea farming was 4,700. It has grown to the current about 100,000 hectares. So, you can see that there has been a lot of interest from Kenyans to engage in tea farming, which in itself is a good thing. There is something that should capture our attention. We should not pay too much attention to only the large-scale farmers, but ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, one of the problems that have been recurring year in, year out, is the disparity in prices. Some farmers who grow tea around Mt. Kenya region earn bonuses which are double what the farmers in the Rift Valley, including my County of Nyamira, earn. When the bonuses are declared each year, you will find that farmers in Nyamira will be paid a tea bonus of, for example, Kshs20 per kilogramme. But tea farmers in counties like Murang’a or Nyeri, will attract a bonus of Kshs40 per kilogramme. This is demoralizing. Year in, year out these farmers keep ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: extended to tea farmers in terms of subsidy. Year in, year out, I hear statements from the Government that there will be subsidized fertilizer that will be extended to the maize growing farmers. This is a good thing because we want to have food security and good production on maize, because that is our stable food, but we always forget the tea farmer year in, year out. I have never heard any initiative by the Government of extending subsidized fertilizer to tea farmers. I would propose that when we relook at the functions of the Authority under Clause 5, that ... view
• 14 Mar 2019 in Senate: If you know about our economy, in fact, tea is among the first in terms of foreign exchange earner. In terms of the world market, if I am not wrong, we are number three in terms of export. So, if we are not creating an enabling ground where the farmer feels that he is appreciated by the Government to ensure that there are good returns from their farming, it will come a time when even our number three will be overtaken within the world market. Therefore, this initiative by my good friend, Sen Cheruiyot, will address all these concerns. I ... view
• 13 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to first declare that I am a Member of the Committee on Health and salute our good friend, Sen. Cherargei, for having brought this matter to the attention of the House. A healthy nation is a matter of national interest. This issue of KEMSA supplying medicine to all counties is a problem that we have all encountered in our counties. Last month, in my County of Nyamira, we had serious drug shortages in a number of hospitals. When we asked questions, the answer that we got was that KEMSA lacks the capacity to ... view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was privileged to serve as Member of this Committee. I am taken by surprise because we made these recommendations after serious deliberations. We did not just plug the name of the CS, the National Treasury and Planning from the air. It was after analyzing the evidence that was presented before the Committee. I have tremendous respect for Sen. (Prof.) Kamar who was our Chairperson. However, we, as a Committee, have not met to change the recommendations that we arrived at. I want to plead that we should be careful--- view
• 19 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we should be careful to ensure that we leave the integrity of this House intact. The time that we, as a Committee, were given to arrive at the recommendations, lapsed long time ago. What would be the basis for us to change recommendations that the Committee had already made during the life of that Committee? view