Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was on intervention earlier but it has been overtaken by events. The person I wanted to correct is no longer on the Floor. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also wish to record my thanks to the President of the Republic of Kenya for his exposition of public policy, 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 Apr 2019 in Senate: popularly known as the State of the Nation Address that was delivered to Parliament just the other day. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it was an interesting speech, if you look at it critically. It came at a time when there were expectations from one side, and reservations from the other side. I never thought or imagined that, at any one time, leaders who have taken oath to protect our country, its Constitution and to be stewards over the public would be so visibly divided on the fight against corruption. I believed that, that signals a tough time for our country where we look at even the most basic things through political lenses, including safeguarding this country. view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, let me start on the issues of the unity of Kenya, because according to the law, that is the first thing that the President is supposed to talk about when talking about measures taken and progress achieved in the realisation of national values and principles of governance. This is as espoused in Article 10 of the Constitution. I am glad that the President affirmed resoundingly his commitment to the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), popularly known as the „handshake.‟ For close to fifty years, this country has been divided down the middle. We have looked at each other, ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: not just the rhetoric, but the action from that Committee. We want to make sure that in public places and in public offices in this country, we ban the speaking of vernacular. Sometimes I am sympathetic to the words of President Moi, when he said that these radio stations and moving into our tribal cocoons will divide us more than unite us. I have been attacked severally for that position, but it is my position. In as much as we want to listen to Kass FM, when you leave your car after listening to it, do you feel more Kenyan ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Kibera during the 2007 post-election violence. Unless we built the software that drives us – the software starts with unity, a Kenyan identity and a people proud of themselves, that, I do not look down upon you because you do not speak the language I speak; that, I will not choose a political leader because he comes from place – that does not mean that he will deliver. So, we are standing behind the President in the Building Bridges Initiative. When it began, I kept saying, why is it that it is only old people involved? Why is it that ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: Groups or telephones. They did not have television sets to follow what was happening but because they were so sure about what their generation had to do, they spanned the length and breadth of this country and got us independence. They were united. Both parties had people from all communities. Something went wrong down the way. Fifty years later, again the young people will unite this country under the leadership of our President Uhuru Kenyatta, Deputy President and former Prime Minister. We want them to work together. I urge my colleagues, because it is a great disservice for us to ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: not ask us. In the same us, show us, get rid of it. Kenyans are suffering. They are feeling that their personal lack of opportunities is because of a corrupt few. Fire them and let the justice system go on when they are outside your Government. Do not sit in the cabinet with people you know have stolen from Kenyans. Do not hire parastatal heads that you know have stolen from Kenyans. Do not do it Mr. President – I am sure he is listening. You cannot do the same thing the same way and expect different results. It is ... view
• 11 Apr 2019 in Senate: operators are seen as criminals. They are chased everywhere yet we are saying the rate of crime is going up. Today, if somebody rides a boda boda into this town, they are arrested and asked to bring Kshs30,000 to get it out. What are we talking about? I have just spoken about the issue of Uber drivers in this country. I have been to the US, I have used Uber, and other applications in London, and even when you receipt you see the tax that has gone to the Government. We are not getting a shilling but immediately you get ... view