Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Value chains mean that you must address post-harvest activities. Maybe if it is bananas, you should tell us that the farmers in Kisii have been trained. After the harvest of their bananas, they have started producing banana crisps, for example. Are you going to get that in Nyamira? I am sure that you will not find anything close to any value addition to the farmers. I am 100 per cent sure. However, how much money is going to Nyamira? A total of Kshs168,123,322. Have we even trained farmers in marketing? I do not know about Meru. Maybe Hon. Kawira may ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Yesterday, we were treated to comedy. Our governor said that he took time to submit documents to the auditors because he wanted to rearrange photos that he took 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
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: training farmers and doing public participation activities. However, when you look at those photos, it is like he took Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) worshipers attending church under trees and he says that this is public participation. Then, he hides the images of the participants because he does not want us to see that there is a pastor somewhere. view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: When we give money to counties, let us follow up with oversight. I want to invite Sen. M. Kajwang's Committee to come to Nyamira so that we visit these farmer groups. I will accompany them. I am even inviting the Senator for Narok. Let us go down to the counties. I want to go to Nyamira and see the Kshs168, 123,322, which the group of farmers benefited from and their names. Let me know whether there is Mogaka, Onyancha, Nyaboke, Maria and Mageto. Who are these farmers who have benefited from this money? view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: If you look at the Kenya Informal Settlement Project (KISP), we are sending another Kshs151,515,000. Do we know what this money is meant for? It is supposed to reduce poverty in our counties. When I go to Nyamira, I should see maybe some youths who have been trained to improve their skills or have been given money by our governors to start some business. This is money that is coming from donors, and we will pay for it. It is not free money. Unfortunately, when this money reaches our counties, they call accounting officers and say, “ imekuja? Nataka yangu. ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: We have come from vacation because we want our people down at the grassroots to get this money, so that it improves and changes their lives, but not to send money so that governors can build big mansions. That is not the purpose. For donor money, somebody somewhere sacrificed to ensure that we get this money. I plead with the Senators to take advantage of our oversight committees. Invite these committees to your county. Let the governor give you a list of the people who have benefited. I want to see from Nyamira the youth groups that are beneficiaries from ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have seen that we have been allocated Kshs105 million for industrial parks. How I wish my governor could pick up my call, I would take him to Kitui to benchmark and see what the Governor of Kitui is doing. I want you to accompany me to Nyamira, to see what is happening at a place called Sironga where the governor is doing an Industrial Park. All that he did was to put a fence round, do some ground breaking and that was it. However, the money has already been sent and spent in our County ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Finally, on the money for the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF), how I wish we could ring fence it to do tarmac roads in our counties. If we are giving this money to our counties to go and do murram roads, we are just giving them money to eat. Sen. Sigei, in Bomet, you send this money to your governor, tomorrow you will see him wearing a suit worth Kshs200,000 from the money you have sent him. They will tarmac a road that was already tarmacked by the Member of Parliament (MP). view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: So, if we need to transform our counties, let us ring-fence and condition this money. Even if you do two kilometres, it is okay. Let us even do five kilometres in a financial year. In five years, we will have done 25 kilometres. That will be transformative. I thank the Chairperson for the good work done. However, the job is also cut out for us, as Senators, in our oversight role. We must follow this money down to the grassroots and ensure that we get a detailed report on how it is being spent, who the recipients and beneficiaries are. ... view
• 12 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the Statement by Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda on the proposed 10 per cent land rate policy. At a time when Kenyans are already crying because of heavy taxation, our governors are increasing rates. If you have not received rates for your properties in Nairobi this year, the Governor of Nairobi City County has increased them. Where do we run to? The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view