Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was wondering why you were letting the Senator for Kakamega County get away with trying to speak on my behalf. I am neither mute nor dumb. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Allow me as the Senator for Nairobi City County to welcome this wonderful delegation to Nairobi. I am jealous that Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. had an opportunity to 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 Jun 2019 in Senate: meet them earlier. I wish that I knew they were here. I would have loved to interact with them and learn some Mende, Temne and Creole which are some of the local languages in Sierra Leone. I would have loved to share some experiences with them. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Sierra Leone is a country whose population is around 6.3 million people. It is just about the population of the county that I represent as an individual Senator. Beyond that, we share many similarities. Sierra Leone is a country with a huge population of young people. Its median age is 19 years. It is a country that is facing similar challenges to the ones that we are facing in Kenya as we grapple with issues of youth unemployment and see how the young people of this continent who are the trustees of the posterity of Africa get a space on ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I would like to congratulate Sen. Sylvia Kasanga for being the architect of this piece of legislation. I encourage other Members to also sponsor such Bills that look at the needs of the society. This is why we are here. Apart from coming up with such legislation, Sen. Kasanga has also been able to carry the whole of this House along. She has done an amazing job of raising awareness in both the mainstream and social media on this subject. This is a conversation that this country ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: that we and our children seek, the highest visits by Members of this House is to those that offer mental healthcare. However, when we come here, we pretend because we must look macho, as if we have got it all going on. Needless to say, even we need that kind of support especially considering the stressful nature of our work. We must, therefore, be at the forefront in fighting the stigma associated with mental illness. The purpose of this Bill is to promote mental health and the wellbeing of all persons, coordinate the prevention of mental illness, reduce the impact, ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, please, protect me from the Senator for Tharaka- Nithi County, who is speaking loudly. He is normally strict when he is on the other side, but right now---. view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. When we went to this home, we found that Simaton and those who work at Therapies for Kids have rehabilitated many children who were locked in the slums because their parents are 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 Jun 2019 in Senate: casual workers earning Kshs150 a day. They lock these children in their houses because they cannot go with them to work, and there are no schools that can accept them. Many such children in Nairobi slums are left in the houses because their parents think they are mad, yet they just have a mental challenge that most of the time can be treated. I am glad that through friends, the President and the First Lady, we donated a bus to this children home. The bus goes to some of the slums to pick and drop those children. This enables them ... view
• 11 Jun 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, last week Sen. Kajwang’ talked about the need for rehabilitation in some parts of Kenya and we refuted his assertion that the level of mental illness as you leave Kisumu County and go towards western Kenya is higher because of the consumption of Omusala . We asked him to substantiate but he failed to do so. Later on, I gave him some statistics informally. Vihiga County must put up these facilities. Homa Bay County, where he is from, must put up these facilities because he has shown us the need for these facilities in his county as ... view