Godana Hargura

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• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: members of the Samburu community living in Laikipia and the malicious killing of their livestock. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: One problem I have seen with us, Kenyans, is that we conveniently want to forget history and start as if things happened yesterday. These are historical issues. In fact, the better part of last evening and this morning, I was in a meeting trying to handle some issue on historical land injustices, which communities are submitting to the National Land Commission (NLC). This is the case that we have been having. It is a historical fact that these were pastoralist areas. When the colonialists came with their mentality that land does not belong to anybody, what they call terra nullius, ... view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: You have to start from somewhere. Where was that land before it became private? It belonged to a community and that community is still alive and is still practicing pastoralism. That is why you will always find those pastoralists there during the dry season. It is because a pastoralist cannot watch his animal die where there is grass across the fence. That is what we are experiencing. The Government needs to treat this in a very holistic manner. The conservationists need to open up their conservancies to the original owners of that land, so that they can graze during the ... view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I think that the Government and the CS need to totally address this issue, so that we do not ignore facts and use force to deny people their rights, without giving alternatives and understanding that these people have to be allowed to graze. That is what we do. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: I am from Marsabit and during the dry season, our animals are in Samburu because their environment is better than ours. We cross into Samburu, graze there and go back. It is the same thing. When it is dry in Samburu and they have cattle, they move into Laikipia. For us, we have camels, goats and sheep. We move into Samburu because their weather is better that ours. There must be that understanding. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: Otherwise, I support the Statement. The Government has to be practical. This story has to be taken into account. These are parts of the historical land injustices that we are addressing. They have to be addressed and no lives need to be lost when there is enough land. view
• 16 Sep 2021 in Senate: Thank you. view
• 14 Sep 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to support the Committee on Legislated Devolution’s position on the Sinking Fund Regulations. I would like to join my colleagues in stating that the law has been in place for a very long time, but it also takes long to come up with the legislation. view
• 14 Sep 2021 in Senate: If you look at the kind of budgets we have been operating for the last few years, we have been having a very high deficit. We continuously had to borrow. We have been going into debt because of that borrowing. However, the idea behind this fund is supposed to be setting aside funds that can be used in future to pay debts and redeem bonds. As it is now, we do not have that luxury because we have a lot of deficit. Instead of living within our means, we have always been having budgets where we are servicing debts of ... view