Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 681 to 690 of 5036.

• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, on deprivation index, I challenge anyone in this House to show a place with worse sanitation than Mathare or Kiamaiko. People are walking on open sewers in Korogocho, Mukuru kwa Njenga and Mukuru kwa Reuben. We also have “flying toilets” in Kibera, Katwekera and Lindi. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Many times people imagine that Nairobi is well-to-do because of these areas where we are sitting in now. If the Chairman wants us to take a walk now, it will not take us ten minutes to see living sewers. That is sanitation. Which area would be worse than that? view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Regarding access to healthcare, there are five million people living in 200 informal settlements in slums in Nairobi City County. That is 60 per cent of the population, occupying only 6 per cent of the land. How can you have a marginalization policy that does not mention even one sub location of Nairobi City County? Many times urban poverty bites worse than rural poverty. If you have no money in Nairobi, you will not get a place to stay or something to eat. In the village, it is possible your neighbour will give you a tin of maize. In Western ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: It does! view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, it does. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: I have not accepted. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I am not interested anymore. Let me give my argument. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: I still have time. How much time do I have? view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, we have rules on how long a contribution is done. This is not a Statement, but a report. When we discuss a report, we passed how much time someone can speak. I still have time. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, first of all, those were points of argument. I would like to convince my colleagues that in the Senate, when we debate, you do not have to agree with what I am saying. Just because you do not agree with it, does not mean it is not right. You can have your opinion and I have mine. In my opinion, this is an extremely unfair way of identifying marginalised areas. There is what Article 204 says, and that is the first thing I said when I came up here. If you read the Report, it states how ... view