18 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, proceed.
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16 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I join the rest to condole with the family of our dear departed Senator, Yusuf Haji. It is yet another sad day for the Senate. We were hit hard last time, just as we were closing the year, when we lost Sen. Kabaka. Here we are again starting the year with another loss of our dear father, the Senator for Garissa County. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the late Sen. Yusuf Haji was my Chairperson of the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. I remember, the first time when I attended the ...
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16 Feb 2021 in Senate:
him. A duty I did happily until he was through with the BBI activities. By the time Sen. Sakaja left, I was still holding brief for the person I respected, who was like my dad.
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16 Feb 2021 in Senate:
He was committed to work. When we start Committee sittings at 9.00 a.m, he would be there and we respected him for that. I went to Kipsigis Girls’ High School, which has a dormitory named after Sen. Haji. When we met here, I told him I slept in Sen. Haji dormitory. I happened to have been a patron of an alumni of a group of Kipsigis Girls’ High School and we were doing a water project for the school. I told him I was going to start a water project in that school. I reminded him of the time his ...
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16 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we will miss him. I remember when there were the Lamu attacks, we went there as the Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations. I told him of how afraid we were because of the constant attacks, but he told me that you only die once and there is no need to be afraid. As he went to his maker, he must have gone in peace. We will miss him and may God rest his soul in eternal peace.
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11 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I happen to sit in the Committee on Delegated Legislation. We consider regulations which are to operationalize the parent Acts and Bills that emanate from both Houses of Parliament. I would not want to say that all regulations are bad from what my learned colleague is talking about. He seems to have a problem with regulations. As a Member of the Delegated Legislation Committee, I want to state categorically that not all regulations are bad. All we need to check is whether they are harmful. By the time you draft regulations, there is public participation from ...
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11 Feb 2021 in Senate:
We know the potatoes, tomatoes and capsicum--- I am just giving information as to what we are doing. They came out with packaging so that the farmer is not exploited. In short, I am simply giving information from the Committee on Delegated Legislation that not all regulations are bad.
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11 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Yes, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.
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10 Feb 2021 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, is it in order for Sen (Dr.) Mbito to insist on using a word that you have ruled out as being unparliamentary? The word “monstrous.” He even made it worse.
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