Godana Hargura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I send my condolences to the family of the mother and her daughter who lost their lives in that very unfortunate incident. This also shows how we take our work. We have a parastatal that has no other business other than just operating that ferry between the two shores. This kind of a disaster happens, but they are not prepared at all. That shows that there are officers in this country who do not take their work seriously and do not know what they are doing. We, as a Committee, I can remember we ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: have to be very serious and competent in what they are doing in the channel before we can introduce Kenyans up into the sky so that disasters are minimized. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a very sad issue. The KFS and the management should take responsibility. Any sensible person should even have resigned because that is the first failure of their responsibility. They cannot handle emergency. If they are showing us that there is no emergency preparedness in that area, then they have no business being in those positions. Once again, I condole with the family and people of ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: I thank you. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to join my colleagues in condoling with the families who lost their children in the unfortunate incident. Public institutions like schools, even if they are privately run, must be inspected by the relevant Government Department in the Ministry of Education. I believe that is a school where pupils have been sitting for the Kenya Primary School Examination (KCPE). view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: When they approved the school for pupils to sit for examination there, they must have also checked the kind of infrastructure and the condition under which the children learn. Even if the Ministry of Education does not have engineers, the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure Development has engineers who are supposed to do that. As an engineer, I am surprised how we can have such a structure in Nairobi. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: If it is iron-sheet timber structure, it cannot be a storey building. The right thing would have been to change it to a proper reinforced concrete structure. From the way the school is structured, if upper classes were there, then the examination was going to be done in the school. It means officers of the Ministry of Education did not take their work seriously. Today, the Cabinet Secretary (CS) went round and closed down a school with that kind of structure in Kibera. That means that there are many of them around. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: I urge the Committee to take up the matter with the Ministry of Education seriously to make sure that all school structures are audited. They should do what they are supposed to do. view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank Sen. Halake for bringing up this issue. As pastoralists, these are the kind of injustices that we have been enduring all this time. view
• 24 Sep 2019 in Senate: This country has always had laws. After we got Independence, we had laws. Community land has been under county councils. There have been laws like the Trust Land Act to give them direction on how to administer that community land. If it was to be taken over by any other institution, there must be a way of having that land transferred. To my understanding, it always had community involvement. The unfortunate situation like this one is where those laws are not followed. You end up with Government institutions, private organisations or individuals acquiring community land without following due procedure. We ... view
• 19 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. (Dr.) Ali for bringing up this issue. As Members of Parliament, we sometimes have to walk to Nyayo House to follow up on the issue of passport issuance for our constituents. We understand that the Government has to be careful to make sure that Kenyan documents are only issued to Kenyans and include vetting the people from border counties because foreigners can acquire Kenyan documents. However, someone does not know what they are doing at Nyayo House. Elderly people from Northern Kenya are forced to travel all the way to process passports in Nairobi ... view