1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
Order, Senators! Sen. Omogeni, you will have a balance of 11 minutes when this matter comes next.
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1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
Honorable Senators, it is now 6.30 p.m. time to interrupt the business of the Senate. The House therefore stands adjourned until Tuesday, 6th October, 2020 at 2.30 p.m.
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1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
The Senate rose at 6.30 p.m. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to this very important Bill. I thank my Secretary General (SG), Sen. (Dr.) Zani, for always being in the forefront to fight for justice down there in the villages. The introduction to this Bill talks about the strategy for community health that was done from 2014 to 2019, which tends to provide of community health services. However, it fell short of giving proper guidelines on how these services are going to be done. This Bill comes in handy to fill in the gaps, so that we can ...
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, it is interesting. We have systems in place, but we do not have support for these systems. The health workers and volunteers are there. They keep volunteering, but we have taken so long to even realise that they need to be just appreciated for the services that they give. For how long are they going to volunteer? They cannot be volunteers forever. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
We must find a way of having a volunteer promoted to the next level and given capacity. At the end of the day, you volunteer as a health worker and tomorrow, because you have been capacitated, you are able to move to the next level and provide service as others come up as volunteers.
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I happy with this Bill. It goes ahead to give a framework as to how the structure looks like and how we are going to have these volunteers. I even see a provision where it says that the volunteers should be picked in a public baraza . I had a complainant from my village telling me that volunteers are being taken, but people have taken their relatives, wives and sisters. You end up not providing the service that you are supposed to do or at least being fair to the community. People have been volunteering. Maybe your ...
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
monopolizing everything to the detriment of the same community that they are supposed to serve. This will come to an end with this kind of framework. At least, we will have accountability in the process; who picked what? Who went for what training? Who is in charge of what? They will be accountable to what we are doing. I support this Bill and thank Sen. (Dr.) Zani for coming up with it.
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23 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, my point of order is still on the same matter. Last year, I requested for a Statement on the same issues. Over 19 electricity transformers had been stolen in Kajiado County. To date, some of the transformers have not been replaced and we were not told who stole them. It will be good to summon them so that they can explain on the pending issues.
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