Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Oct 2020 in Senate: Having said that, we give the Government the benefit of doubt. We wish our teachers all the best and our students who are going back to school on Monday. I hope our Committee on Education will monitor. I am concerned in my county that the facilities are not enough. Maybe now that it is just three classes that are reopening, it could work, but I do not think there has been enough preparedness. Reopening schools is not just announcing a date. We will continue oversight. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I support this and thank the Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Poghisio. ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: When I heard the Statement, and I know that the bulk of the contributions have been around a specific event, I felt that we should not lose that opportunity to follow up on real human rights issues that we have raised in this House. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: I request the Committee, as it looks at this issue, to also consider the matter we had brought on extra-judicial killings in Nairobi. I know that we had started it when Sen. Cherargei was the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. There is an officer called Mr. Ndiema, who was charged with shooting a 13-year- old boy, Yassin Juma, in Huruma. I think the Committee will do us justice if they can update us not just on the case of Mr. Ndiema, but together with Amnesty International we gave a whole list of officers ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: No, I am not. I am just asking for additional information. I am not talking about the politics. These are serious cases and the parents still want justice, yet we are seeing games being played by the prosecution and police in court. I think with your indulgence you can ask that, that additional information be given. We will deal with the other issues of politics politically. The Committee will not sort out our politics, but on this one, we need responses on those specific cases that we listed. I will speak to the Chair of the Committee on Justice, Legal ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the colleagues who have spoken before me have shown the extent to which this is an important Statement. I thank Sen. Wetangula for bringing the concern of farmers to the Floor of the House. Some of us are farmers so we are interested in the issues affecting agriculture. There is a huge outcry in Trans Nzoia because most of the farmers at whatever scale feel that they have just been cashiers to the Government this year. There was a rumoured figure of Kshs2,500 that is to be offered but that does not even cut the cost or ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Those questions must be asked. I hope that the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries will bring a proper response. Agriculture is a devolved function and if the Senate does not talk about agriculture, no one will because no one else has the proper mandate to talk about it. Yesterday, I watched on the news as governors lamented that they have been ignored in the entire debacle around tea regulations, yet they are the ones implementing agriculture in the counties. The Cabinet Secretary (CS) in the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Hon. Munya, must be told ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to draw your attention and that of my colleagues to Standing Order No.96 (6). I listened to the Senator for Bomet as he gave his contribution and Sen. Linturi as he has just finished. Standing Order No.96 (6) says: “A Senator shall refer to another Senator by the title “Senator… (name of the Senator).” The Senator for Bomet County repeatedly called Sen. Cherargei just ‘Cherargei.’ Sen. Linturi started well, but at the end, he said that he would like to thank Cherargei. There is no one here called Cherargei. There is Sen. Cherargei and Sen. ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: Why should he be first? The Chairperson of the Committee on Health should actually speak last because he needs to take into account what Members have spoken to this Bill. This is the Second Reading, and Members have very different analysis. I applaud Sen. (Dr.) Zani for this Bill. Healthcare workers are a core part of our healthcare system. If you look at the Memorandum and Objectives of this Bill, it really addresses the issue of focus on the community. This comes at a time when we are looking at the most noble of professions, which is healthcare. That includes ... view
• 6 Oct 2020 in Senate: When you asked anyone in the community what they wanted to do, they wanted to be a nurse, a teacher or a doctor. Nowadays everybody wants to study procurement. I do not understand what happened. Procurement is the most sought after course these days. On Thursday 15th April, 2020, while chairing the Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya, after chairing over 70 sessions I became a healthcare volunteer. I got to learn a lot about these community health workers. We met a consortium of community health workers, led by one Julius Mbeya of Lwala Community Alliance; we met Dr. ... view