Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am not debating your ruling. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am affirming your ruling. I am assuring you that in less than 14 days, I will have dealt with it and the Chairperson of the Committee on Education will be invited to my meetings. I will finish it very quickly. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. You are ever so gracious. I beg to lay on the Table of the House the following Papers – view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move- THAT, the House do adopt the Sixth Progress Report of the ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 situation in Kenya, laid on the Table of the Senate on Tuesday, 19th May, 2020. I think I have an hour. I wish I got two, because the report is very wide. I wish I had two hours, but I have only one. The Ad Hoc Committee on the COVID-19 situation in Kenya was established on the 31st of March, 2020, with the mandate to oversight actions that have been taken by the national ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: As noted in the previous progress reports of the Committee, during the initial stages of our work, we clustered all emerging issues into five thematic areas. The first area was health issues, which includes; community health testing, quarantine, isolation centers, Intensive Care Unit Facilities (ICU), the human resource aspects of health, drugs and supplies, the role and engagement of county governments and mental health. The second issue is economic and finance issues, which includes; the macro economic effects, the impact of businesses, trade facilitation, and measures to cushion borrowers and financial institutions. The third thematic area, which this Report is ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: As you can see, many Senators want to come to the House but we are only designating 28, and those 28 who were designated are not coming. I would urge the Senate Business Committee (SBC), which I heard on the news that I am going back to, to review this matter. This is because it is such an important Bill that is needed now during the pandemic. It is taking us more than 14 days just to put the question and to go to the Committee of the Whole. We finished our work. We have listened to people. We have ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: We have dealt with the issue of violation of human rights, protection of employers and employees, engagement of learners during the closure of all learning institutions, operations of the Judiciary, management of prisons and refugee camps and Kenyans in the diaspora. I must continue to thank Kenyans who, to date are sending us recommendations, ideas and their concerns. As I said earlier, Ms. Ireri of the Kenya Transporters Association (KTA) was busy sending me documents and facts. Kenyans are really engaging us. Having analyzed these issues and concerns raised by the public under Thematic Area 3, we met the following ... view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: (c) The CS, Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing, Urban Development and Public Works. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: (d) The CS, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (c) The National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA). 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
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: From our preliminary recommendations, they have made a lot of changes which I will explain later. In the law, public order and human rights sector, we sat with- (a) The National Council for the Administration of Justice (NCAJ) that is chaired by the Chief Justice. (c) The Law Society of Kenya (LSK). (d) Amnesty International Kenya. (e) The Kenya Legal and Ethical Issues Network (KELIN). (f) The Economic and Social Rights Centre (Haki Jamii). (g) Crime si Poa. (h) Adequate Housing. Madam Temporary Speaker, we also met with the labour sector, as follows- (a) The Federation of Kenya Employers (FKE). ... view