Getrude Musuruve Inimah

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• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: important because they will be owned by the people in all the counties. This will ensure that the problem of logging is dealt with by planting trees. I remember that Sen. Kihika, with a heavy heart, brought a petition from her constituents concerning the problem of logging. We need to have a solution on logging. People should not log without a plan. If there is any logging, then there is need replace the cut down trees even threefold. We cannot avoid cutting down trees simply because of their importance. Trees provide timber, firewood and paper. Therefore, we cannot rule out ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: and enlighten people about the importance of trees, because they will own the projects. If they do not own the projects, then they will rebel. Something can be implemented, but if it does not serve the communities, it means that the implementation will be short-lived. view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: We should come up with a proposal that will make this proposition sustainable. The Communities should be involved when it comes to employment and making decisions. Public participation is also important in this arrangement, even before the policy is implemented. There is need for public participation so that people get to know about community forest associations. We should let people themselves come up with ideas of how they will be sustainable and driven so that they become a people’s agenda. Madam Temporary Speaker, county governments should embrace the idea of coming up with community forest associations. There is need to ... view
• 8 Oct 2019 in Senate: governments do not collect enough revenue to manage development. They, therefore, need to come up with mechanisms to generate revenue. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support this Motion and believe that it will see the light at the end of the tunnel. I thank you once again for the opportunity. view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Thank you so much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to second this Motion. Allow me to thank Sen. Omanga for coming up with this Motion on children with disabilities. I appreciate my colleagues in this House for taking the initiative to ensure that they are taking issues of disabilities seriously in this House. As someone representing Persons with Disabilities (PWDs), I truly appreciate when legislators without disability take it as their initiative to move the agenda. I also want to encourage other legislators to continue coming up with Motions, Bills, Statements and Petitions on issues to ... view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me also to bring out the irony of ironies in this House. It is on record that PWDs are among the poorest worldwide. Disability is an expensive situation to manage because of the management issues, such as the accessories. Even things that are supposed to help a PWD to move from one place to another and get by like everybody else, are very expensive. For example, the cheapest wheelchair could cost around Kshs5,000, which cannot be repaired after a week’s use. That is a tool that helps someone with physical disability to move from place ... view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I second this Motion, there are still more ironies. When you read the Bible, you will find that there are people of God who prayed and cried to God to give them children. For example, Hannah cried to God to give her a child. It reached a point where Eli rebuked and told her to stop her drunkenness. He thought she was drunk, but she was pleading with God. Some like Sarah and Abraham were also promised a child. A child is a gift from God, but sometimes when the gift comes, nobody knows how ... view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, even though we are talking about children with disabilities among the vulnerable groups, there are those who are worse off than others. There are some, for example, who can go through the education system and eventually catch up and get by, just like the normal people. Apart from being bullied by one or two students, they eventually make it life. For those with hearing or visual impairment, if the curriculum is okay, with time they can make it in life. We even have lawyers who have visual impairment, and so on. However, there are those who ... view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: the kind of children we are talking about as they cannot be helped in any way because they are immobile and their bones are weak. We should address issues of their caregivers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when those children are born, they already have a label in the society. This is because in some cases, when someone wants to refer to their parents, you will hear them say, huyu ndiye mama wa yule mtoto ambaye hawezikutembea ama anayejikojolea. From the outset, the parent is highly frustrated because they have a label in the society as the mother or father of ... view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, while taking care of these children, the caregivers may not have the necessary functional skills, and need to be trained because it is expensive to maintain them. For example, you cannot just get food over the counter and give to some of them. Some of them need a special diet that can cost even Kshs12,000 or Kshs20,000 a month. The irony is that the person who is supposed to provide these special meals for them may not be working or having an income, yet they have a child who needs special care. view