Johnson Arthur Sakaja

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• 22 Mar 2022 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
• 22 Mar 2022 in Senate: programme that we are partnering with Food 4 Education that was founded by a lady called Ms. Wawira, the children are being given 650 grammes of food. The children eat half of what they get and take the other half home to their siblings. That issue of national interest with respect to food needs to be addressed by both the national Government and county governments in this Division of Revenue Bill. Further to that, we hope that we will have proper accountability. Many times, we think that it is the counties that are corrupt but, remember, that is a small ... view
• 22 Mar 2022 in Senate: This Senate must congratulate itself because it has moved funds going to the counties up to Kshs370 billion. I know that there are fight about the conditional grants and allocations. However, it is a milestone that the funds went up from Kshs316.5 billion to Kshs370 billion. That is actually a serious feather in the cap of the Senate. I urge those who will move from this House to other positions; to be Members of National Assembly and especially those who are going to be Governors, not to forget the good work and the fight that this Senate has done. If ... view
• 22 Mar 2022 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
• 22 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I said that I was going to wind up, but after this business, we might have no business. Not unless you are creative as a governor and only depend on the funds from the National Government, your county cannot completely grow. I have explained to you the Kshs18 billion wage bill in Nairobi County and that is what we are giving them, yet that is what they are also raising. If you want to sort out the mass transit problem in Nairobi, for instance, traffic, we need like proper six lanes of proper heavy rail in this ... view
• 10 Mar 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for that decision and communication. If you look at the history of The National Disaster Management Authority Bill, it originated from this House. This is a Bill that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and I sponsored jointly. In fact, it came up after the Solai Dam Tragedy when we realized that there are certain gaps that need to be addressed when it comes to co-ordination of disasters between the national and county governments. After having formulated this Bill, it was discussed and passed in this House, and sent to the National Assembly. When they received ... view
• 10 Mar 2022 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
• 10 Mar 2022 in Senate: When a disaster happens, and I will give you an example of the many that I have in Nairobi, like Gikomba Market, the fires that are all over in Mathare and buildings collapsing. You will find all agencies talking at cross-purposes duplicating their work and nobody does it. It is like having a job that anybody could do but nobody did it because everybody thought that somebody would do it, but nobody ended up doing it. That has led to loss of lives. Even as you have said that we step down and wait for concurrence, I urge that you ... view
• 10 Mar 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would like to speak to this Bill. However, I cannot ignore what Sen. Mwaura has asked for. Mr. Felix Odhiambo was electrocuted in Mwihoko. We share Githurai. Githurai 44 is in my county and Githurai 45 is in Ruiru, Kiambu County. This gentleman’s death was very curious. He is known within Mwihoko because he does a lot of electrical work. view
• 10 Mar 2022 in Senate: On this day, the power was switched off when he went up the pole but it was switched on while he was still up. When he fell with a thud, the authorities and the Kenya Power people fled the scene with their vehicles. It is very curious and serious questions need to be asked. On top of that, there have been a lot of deaths and fires in informal settlements in Nairobi. I have been pushing, for the last few years, for social connections of power in our slum area You cannot expect somebody in Mathare to be paying the ... view