Erick Okong'o Mogeni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity. I want to begin by thanking the Committee of Finance and Budget for putting a lot of effort behind this Bill. Yesterday, we had a session with the Governor of Nyamira to examine how money is being spent in our county government. We can put a lot of effort as Senators into sending a lot of money to our counties, but unless it is used for the intended purposes, it will never impact the citizens of our respective counties. I am happy that the County of Nyamira will get ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: What is wrong with training these people in nutrition and taking those who have an interest to join our training colleges, so that they grow and become nurses? However, when you demotivate them, allow them to work for two years and you do not pay them, you are not motivating these cadres of people. view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: I heard Sen. Kinyua speak about the value chain addition. I can see that my county is receiving a total of Kshs168,123,322 to support the value chain for farmers. However, I pose this question: If we went to the County of Nyamira today, will we find farmers who have been trained in any value chain, Sen. Kinyua? If we come to your county today, we have been sending money to your governor, will we find a group of farmers who will tell us that, “Yes, the World Bank (WB) supported us, now we have a value chain” If you come ... view
• 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