28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Article 204 of the Constitution talks about areas that have been left behind in terms of access because of neglect. The Governments that we had from Independence decided that the Northern Frontier counties should sort themselves out. According to Sessional Papers No.1 of 1965, the National Government focused on what they called productive areas. The fact that schools were not built in the arid areas is neglect. The fact that water and electricity was not made available to far-flung areas is neglect. The neglect that the people of Nairobi City County have gone through since Independence is the same to ...
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, yes, it is Standing Order No.72. Could the Clerk give me a copy of the Standing Orders.
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, it is not Standing Order No. 72, but 115 on irrelevance.
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Is the Senator for Narok relevant by misleading the House that I have anything against children from counties that are gaining by saying that the children of Nairobi City County should also be included? If he listened to my submissions, I finished by saying that a candle does not lose its light by lighting another candle. The same way I stood for all your counties, is the same way he must also remember the poor and the marginalized in Nairobi City County, who are not accessing sanitation and electricity hence the fires in Mathare slums every two weeks and those ...
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker.
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, is the Senator for Narok in order to keep misleading the House in defining what marginalized is. His statement is that marginalization is not poverty. However, poverty is as a result of marginalization. The dictionary defines marginalized as a person, group or concept treated as insignificant or peripheral. Those people who have been living in abject poverty in the slums of Nairobi have been treated as insignificant or peripheral. Beyond the dictionary, the Constitution in Article 260 defines what a marginalized community is. It states (1) “a community that, because of its relatively small population or for ...
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28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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