10 Mar 2022 in Senate:
carried because they will take space of two or three people. There is need to ensure even public transport is accessible to persons with disabilities. Kenya signed the international agreement that PwDs will access everywhere. When it comes to parking lots, you will find here in town, PwDs lacks parking space. Even the few parking lots designated for PwDs, you find other people using them. This Bill will bring to a stop such issues, so that if someone does such an act, then there should be a sanctioning for such people. City Askaris should be sanctioned for allowing someone with ...
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
On a point of information, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Before I lay the Paper, I would like to comment that this Bill seeks to provide a framework to regulate the
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
business of street vending in the country. It is very clear that we do not have a framework that regulates street vending. This Bill has specific objectives such as- (1) Entrenchment of the rights of informal trading; (2) Regulation of informal trading; (3) Designation and use of public space for informal trading (4) effective organization and regulation of informal traders, and; (5) Public participation in the regulation of vending. Mr. Temporary, Speaker Sir, this Bill was first read on 11th May, 2021 and committed to the Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization pursuant to Article118 of the Constitution. The Committee ...
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Before I lay the report, I was just bringing on board the fact that the report brings in the functions of the national Government and county governments which are very important in ensuring that street vending is a business which is not ridiculed and is also given a status.
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
Following your direction, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today 9th March, 2022- The Report on the Street Vendors (Protection and Livelihood) Bill (Senate Bills No.7 of 2021).
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
I thank everyone who participated.
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9 Mar 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I thank Sen. Iman for bringing this issue to the Floor of this House. Indeed, there have been many cases of children suffering in the hands of house helps. Some of them have been burnt and others exposed to pornographic pictures, like what Sen. Iman has mentioned. This actually affects the growth of such children. They may live without confidence because of how they are treated by house helps. I used to teach psychology; the study of the human mind. Sometimes people react to something. For example, if you want to ...
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