Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: This is a matter that I will urge Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve to keep pushing. We will do our part as the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare to make sure that, at least, the code of building is implemented. Every public building must be modified and I have seen some. For instance, in County Hall, they had to add a metal rump outside to provide access. All public buildings must have that access and the ones coming up should be modified. view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: Tomorrow is 26th October, 2018, the birthday of His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta. Let me tell you how it is related to what we were discussing. I remember when the President turned 50 in 2011, some of his friends came together - I was one of them then and I still am - we decided to visit a place called Therapies for Kids. It is run by the sister of the Senator for Kajiado County. What we heard there was so heartbreaking; that the number of children in Nairobi locked up like sheep and goats in the slums because they ... view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: mothers are wage earners – in Kiswahili we call them wamama wa kufua – is high. The mother then comes in the evening. If the child is left, they cannot go to school. Some of them have mental issues and so on. They are tethered like goats and sheep. view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember going to ask His Excellency the President to get me one or two buses to go around Nairobi and be collecting these children and taking them to either Simaton’s centre at Therapies for Kids or other centres. I am glad that he kept his promise and gave me the first bus which was handed over to Therapies for Kids, and I am pushing for the next bus. view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: We need a county government that is concerned and responsive to these issues. Every primary school in my county needs to have a unit for disabled children because the numbers are increasing. In fact, we are wondering what is happening. Is there an epidemic? The number of children being born with deformities is increasing at a time when the level of health is supposed to be increasing. I keep saying that the strength of a country or a House like this is not with what we do with those who are able to do for themselves, but what we are ... view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: What my good uncle from Bungoma, Sen. Wetangula, has said is true. I have grown up in this City and if you ask who the blind beggar, who has been on Kenyatta Avenue from the 1990s is, I know him by name. We also know the family that is normally at the Nakumatt Ukay and even at the Kenya Railways Station. Suddenly, we find persons being wheeled down from Kawangware, Shauri Moyo, Westlands and other places. Many of them are from Tanzania. There is a racket that is exploiting these people to make money. I am glad that he raised ... view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: I still have time, but let me not exhaust it. We always urge the Speaker to provide for us mechanisms within committees to institutionalize the sub-committees. Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve together with Sen. Mwaura chair the sub-committee on PWDs, in my Committee. Please, run with this issue and take it more seriously. Let us make sure that in the next budget, there are serious allocations – maybe even conditional to counties – to take care of PWDs. If that is the state they are in Nairobi, I can only imagine how these people are being treated and their issues dealt with ... view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to give comfort and confidence to those who had issues. We will listen to you when it comes to the Bill. We will look at how you promote Kenyan Sign Language (KSL), but also make sure that the issues of syntax and morphology, and how it engages with SEE1 and SEE2 is dealt with. There is even the American Sign Language (ASL) which was prior to this. We need to find out how we can have the best bet for our children. view
• 25 Nov 2018 in Senate: I support. view
• 20 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a good Bill. It is an amendment to the 2013 Act of Parliament that sought to provide a legal framework through which PPPs can be done. As Sen. Wetangula said, it presents a lot of opportunities. The scope of what then can be done by the national and the county government increases exponentially once we have been able to diversify the sources of funding and financing such projects. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the national Government provides in the PPP unit that its intention for having such a legislative framework and for dealing ... view