Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3481 to 3490 of 5036.

• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I heard right, the good Sen. (Dr.) Ali, who is very experienced, has said that Senators are making noise. As far as I know, Senators do The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: not make noise; that will look very bad on the record of his House. Could he, please, clarify what he said? I think they were consulting. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, he said they were in a group, yet there are no groups in the House, unless there are strangers in this House. Let him clarify that. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in addition to that, I volunteer my Committee of National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations to give the IG and his team a re- orientation on the place of the Senate. Even as we deal with that, it is a matter that we have to take seriously as a Committee, because we oversight the functioning and work of IG. If he can consider what we are saying with so much disdain, because probably it is a The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: letter that somebody else drafted for him and he signed it without taking the matter seriously, it is a grave matter of concern to the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. We will take it up, in addition to your instructions. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a statement relating to the activities of the Standing Committee on National Security, Defense and Foreign Relations, pursuant to Standing Order 51 for the period between 9th August to 9th November, 2018. In the interest of time, I will not introduce the Committee and say the number of Members and how it was formed; that is in the record of the House. Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have considered a number of Bills during this period as follows- (1) The Prevention of Terrorism (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.20 of 2018), sponsored by Sen. Waqo. ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: promise to continue dealing with this matter and report back to both the Senator and the House. Mr. Speaker Sir, during this time the petitions considered were as follows- (1) Petition on non-local teachers working in Mandera County. We have interrogated that petition jointly with the Committee on Education, met stake holders and tabled our report. (2) The Petition on the settlement of awards to ex-Kenya Air Force officers and servicemen by the Courts, which was referred to the Committee on 14th June, 2018. We have so far met petitioners, stakeholders, the Ministry of Defense and the National Treasury. When ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Initiative and other security agencies in the security docket. We have advised them on how to better entrench themselves, including with the National Private Security Workers Union (NPSWU), which has security officers across the country, and of which yours truly is the patron. Therefore, to this end, we resolved to engage all security agencies on this matter. Finally, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank Members of this Committee for the continued support and dedication; and also the Office of the Clerk for the continued facilitation in the course of the committee work. Unlike other committees, we have never had ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will not take a long time on this. I beg to second this Bill. Just as the Leader of the Majority has said very clearly and eloquently, this is a very important piece of legislation that is needed. It has taken us a very long journey for us to get here. There were several attempts in the last Senate to legislate on this. A similar version of this Bill was passed just before the closing of the Eleventh Parliament. However, it was too late for onward transmission, deliberation and consideration by the National ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as soon as we got into the Twelfth Parliament and I got elected as the Chairperson to the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, the issue of the pension retirement scheme and retirement benefits of our county government workers was the first item in my in-tray to deal with. My Committee put together a Bill by the same name; the County Government Retirement Scheme Bill (National Assembly Bills No.10 of 2018), which is very similar. In fact, it is similar just until the spelling errors, which are the only point of departure with this Bill. There ... view