Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker Sir, you are too gracious. Such a Statement is not just out of order. It must be withdrawn. When you make it look like the Speaker of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya aspires to be demoted to be one of the 47 governors, you are diminishing the stature of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. The Speaker is number three in Kenya after the President, Deputy President and the Speaker of the National Assembly. To say that the Speaker of the Senate at night when he dreams, the biggest thing he is thinking about is ... view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, for HANSARD, I withdraw that erroneous ranking. I want to state categorically that you are actually ‘Kenya 3,’ the Rt. Hon. Kenneth Lusaka Makelo. view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at the very outset, allow me to congratulate my successor, who seems to be successful in the exercise of her mandate as the Chairperson of the Ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya. Congratulations, Sen. (Arch) Kasanga! I had faith in you and I am glad that the Members 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
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: of the Committee have the same faith. So far, your Committee is doing a good job; Sen. Halake, Sen Linturi who is the Vice Chairperson, Sen. Faki and the rest of the team. view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when we started this work, one of the key questions in the series of meetings--- I chaired at least 72 meetings of this Committee before I threw in the towel. The major issue that was going to help this country make a decision was the research work being done by the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) on how the virus is behaving. It is based on that information that you know whether the virus is attenuating in its mutation or becoming strong. view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: When KEMRI came to us earlier, they said that they highly suspected that the version or strain of COVID-19 in Kenya is different from the one in other countries where people are dropping dead, numbers increasing daily and the fatality rate-- In Kenya, we are at 37,000 cases, but we have had 650 deaths. This information is important because decisions being made by various agencies of Government are not scientific but political. Without listening to the science, we might fall into the trap of many other countries. You saw what happened in Japan and China earlier. When they reopened schools ... view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Yesterday, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Boris Johnson, announced stricter measures and said that they might go up for the next six months. What we would like to hear from this Committee in another session with KEMRI, since at the time they had started culturing the virus because it has to grow to a certain level from where you can see how it behaves--- I am sure that the six months have already passed; they can tell us the version in Kenya, so that these decisions can be made. view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: I urge Sen. (Arch) Kasanga to take full charge. The Health function is devolved and the Senate has been given a full mandate. If there will be a meeting or conference by the Executive to discuss reopening or not, the Senate must be represented by Sen. (Arch) Kasanga’s Committee. This Committee has been a focal point of all the thematic areas, from the health issues, economic issues, social public order, justice issues and connecting issues like education. This Committee is the only entity in the Republic of Kenya that has had the entire spectrum of issues surrounding COVID-19. The opinion ... view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Sen. Cheruiyot has raised an important point on the frontline health workers, and I want to give an example. In Nairobi, which is the county that has been hardest hit, one of our institutions had an inordinately high number of infections, possibly 50-70, and that is Pumwani Maternity Hospital. We saw what happened last week in that hospital, which is related because due to that there has been a go-slow. The issues that are yet to be addressed were those we had raised when we spoke to the health workers. First, there is serious staff shortage ... view
• 23 Sep 2020 in Senate: on Monday. I hope that Sen. (Arch) Kasanga’s Committee will join the Committee on Health in that Session. There is need for more than 100 doctors who are able to see and deal with issues as they come up. The reason many nurses got infected even in training is that they were overwhelmed and were dealing with anybody and everybody who come in, in an inefficient manner. We need medical officers, pharmacists, pediatricians and obstetricians. Next to Pumwani Maternity Hospital, there is a white elephant project; a 600- capacity that has been there for years. The facility needs to be ... view