Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you very much. I beg to reply and mention just a few things that have come out from the contributions from the Members. First, I am grateful for the encouraging words of support that Members have offered to our Committee. I assure all the Members that we will not relent. We will keep doing out work as best as we can because we are doing this in service of the people of Kenya and God. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Zani, Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., Sen. Halake, Sen. Shiyonga, Sen. Dullo, Sen. Omogeni, Sen. ... view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: contribution done by our secretariat. I always say that we have the best secretariat. I have never failed to mention that. I will repeat it for as long as I can. Our team led by Mr. Charles Munyua, Ms. Clare Kidombo, Dr. Sagini, Mr. Philemon Okinda, our Serjeant-at-Arms. Ms. Lucianne does a billion job with the media; the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) team that we work closely together us; the Directorate of Legal Services led by Dr. Okello and Mitchell, are always at hand and in our meetings. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: The turnaround and success so far can be attributed 90 per cent to them and 10 per cent to the rest of us. The Secretariat, you make us look good. Thank you for the work you do. I also have my Members, including my Vice-Chair is extremely able. In fact, I am disappointed that in this recent realignment, she did not become a Chair. Sen. Kasanga is an exceptional Vice-Chairperson and does a very good job. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Mbito is the Chair of the Senate Committee on Health, but still comes to this Committee without fail. We also have Senior Counsel, Sen. Omogeni. Sen. Halake is always at hand in our meetings with very useful contributions. She sees things in a very different perspective from the many of us because of her background, and it is very useful. We also have Sen. Linturi and, Senator 001, Sen. Faki. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: I thank my team and tell them that in as much as this is a rapidly evolving pandemic and our Committee has gone past the halfway mark, we will not relent. We have more work to do. We will not slow down. In Kiswahili, they say mgema akisifiwatembo hulitia maji. We will not “tia maji” on our work, but exert ourselves more. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: We are doing a second round of interactions with the National Emergency Response Committee with all the Cabinet Secretaries. I think more than 10 have attended before this Committee. We are doing another round to see the status of what we had agreed upon by the time we last met with them. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: I sincerely thank the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. We have shown leadership by swinging to action. We have published and passed The Pandemic Response Management Bill that is now in the National Assembly. I Urge the Members of the National Assembly to fast track it. I have spoken informally to the leadership of the House there. They need to fast track it so that we pass it while the pandemic is still--- It will be of no use having a framework to deal with a pandemic during a pandemic. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, there are many things we will discuss moving forward. I cannot address them all now because of time, and we need to put the question on the Motion. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: We are rethinking a lot on what is going on. We have got 199 Kenyans who have gone through the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Of those, 73 have died. That says that 36 percent of Kenyans who have gone through ICU have died. There are many questions we will need to ask ourselves as a Committee. view
• 14 Jul 2020 in Senate: I assure the country and this House that the Committee is able to keep Government in check and accountable in dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. view