4 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Hon. Senators, having concluded the business of the sitting of the Senate, it is now time to adjourn the House. The Senate, therefore, stands adjourned until Tuesday, 23rd March, 2021, at 2.30 p.m.
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4 Mar 2021 in Senate:
The Senate rose at 5.10 p.m.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to bring the attention of the Senators to a provision of the Standing Orders that I read the other day. I do not remember it, but the Clerks can help me. It provides that Committees to follow-up on their own resolutions. They can call for reports from various Ministries that are handling their matters. They do not have to wait for an Implementation Committee. We can be using that provision of the Standing Order for us to call to order those that have not implemented what we have resolved. I can check the provision ...
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2 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The two Statements are somehow related. The first is a Statement on the arrest of herders by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) rangers at the Tsavo West National Park in Taita-Taveta border with Kajiado County.
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2 Mar 2021 in Senate:
I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.48 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization on the arrest of herders by KWS rangers at the Tsavo West National Park, which borders Taita-Taveta County and Kajiado County. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the Statement, the Committee should- (i)Report on why the KWS has ignored the collaboration it enjoys with communities neighbouring national parks and began to arrest herders in the ranches surrounding the Tsavo National Park and arraigning them in court; (ii)State why KWS rangers at the park demand hefty bribes from the same herders, purportedly ...
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2 Mar 2021 in Senate:
water, which to me amounts to animal cruelty against animal rights and even against any economic sense, causing a lot of losses to the community. (iv)Explain why KWS continuously harasses these herders and yet, fail to compensate them when wildlife wonders into their ranches, destroys their land and killing their livestock. That is the end of the first Statement.
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2 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, the second Statement is on related human-wildlife conflict in Kajiado County. Pursuant to Standing Order No. 48 (1), I seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources concerning human-wildlife conflict in Najile area of Kajiado West, Sultan Hamud area of Kajiado East and Njukini area of Kajiado South in Kajiado County. In the Statement, should- (1)State the reasons for frequent cases of human-wildlife conflict in Najile area in Ewaso Ward, Njukini area of Rombo and Kuku Ward in Kajiado South and Sultan Hamud area in Kinyau Ward in Kajiado County. That is ...
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2 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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