Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I will not wade into that. I have the largest delegation. Sen. Farhiya is number one in my delegation and I also have Sen. Mugo, the indefatigable Sen. Omanga, Sen. Kwamboka, Sen. Kasanga and others. As a delegation, we do a lot of consultation and we will continue doing that. view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, my Committee informs all Senators of our activities on our digital platforms. The first Petition that we dealt with was on awards to ex-Kenya Air force officers and servicemen by the courts. We have repeatedly met the CS for the Ministry of Defence, Chief of Defence Forces, National Treasury, the Attorney-General and the petitioners. We held our final meeting on the 1982 attempted coup and we will bring our report to the House. The second Petition was on insecurity caused by illegal camel herding in Teri B Ranch in Taita-Taveta County. We have had deliberations with the ... view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: responsibility of law enforcement organs and the options that are available for families and victims of extrajudicial killings and we are going to make recommendations. In the next two weeks, this Committee is going to be in Dandora and Kayole in Nairobi as some of the areas that are worst hit by the issue of extrajudicial killings where we are losing young people every day. Madam Temporary Speaker, we intend to carry out the following activities in the next quarter; holding monthly meeting with those whom we oversight under the mandate of our Committee to respond to questions raised by ... view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senator for Homa Bay County and I share a few things in common. We were born on the same day. We share a birthday and we went to the same school, Lenana School. I can therefore give welcoming remarks on his behalf. view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: I join you in welcoming the students from Homa Bay County. They have come a long way to be in the Senate today. I hope that they have enjoyed their time here. I would like to tell them that if they put their hearts and minds to their work in school and listen to their teachers, they will achieve anything that they put their mind to. I wish them all the best and hope that they enjoy the rest of their stay here. view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I have noted the comments by all the Members. I am grateful for the commendation to the Committee; it is team work. I have many committed Members in the Committee who are always there on time and attend all these visits. I am grateful and honoured to be chairing that Committee for now. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is just that I am chairing two Committees, but I know that this Committee needs a lot of unwavering attention. The issue I want to point out and inform the House, because I made a Statement last week ... view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: For this month, if anybody has a birth notification in this country, they need to go to their assistant chief and their chief, and hand over that notification, because the certificates are there. view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Government has consolidated a lot of resources from other Ministries to actually help in this one month. Kenyans and Senators need to know that these birth certificates are for free. No Kenyan should be charged a shilling 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
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: during this process of collection, because the former Cabinet Secretary (CS) and our good friend, the late Hon. Nkaissery, actually gazetted that it is free; and that Gazette Notice has not been lifted. Recently, I was with CS Matiangi in Kajiado, and he reaffirmed the same; that it is still free. Therefore, if there are chiefs and assistant chiefs who are asking for Kshs50 to photocopy, or this amount of money to do this or that, that is what we call in Swahili view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: , because it is free. Therefore, Senators and your respective counties, especially those from north eastern and the pastoralist counties, the bulk of uncollected birth certificates are from there. Similarly, for those of us from western, the certificates are not uncollected, but the rate of production is high, such that there are many which will need to be collected soon. Please let us inform our people to collect them during this month of the RRI. Thank you. I am grateful to the gracious comments from Members. view