5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
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5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
That place is flooded. I do not want to come from Kisumu at this point in time. That place is flooding. Thank you for giving me an opportunity, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First, I want to also send my condolences to the family of Kenyans who have lost lives in the floods. It is very disheartening to see people who have been sleeping at night, landslides happen and then they are buried in the sand. It is a very painful death. I would like to send my condolences, heartfelt condolences, to those families that have gone through that traumatizing period ...
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5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
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5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
county governments because those are the people who live closest to the people and who suffer from disasters. If a disaster happens in Nairobi, the first people who should respond should be the Nairobi County Government because it is a government by them, unless they are fake governments. With those few remarks, I support. I thank Hon. K'Oyoo for bringing the Motion. It is timely. I hope he has not lost people.
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4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, Hon. Maoka must know that he is the Chairman of a Committee of the House. When he is responding to issues, he should respond as a Chairman. He is responding like a Government officer that: “Do not worry!” That is how Government replies to people. “Do not worry. Do not worry.” We are worried because we want to know the contents of the circular. If you are saying the committees are lapsing tomorrow and you are telling me not to worry… The constituency committee is CDF. Leader of the Majority Party, I know you were busy with the ...
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4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, this is a very serious matter in the country because many people, especially in the counties, are suffering because of the pending bills. Some of the pending bills go way back to 2015/16 Financial Year. The only way this matter can get justice in Parliament is through a report from the Committee and not through a statement. The Controller of Budget, as the Chair has stated, has been out of office for two months. But, these are pending bills that have been there for many The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. ...
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4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly:
years. Basically, the county governments have not appeared before the Committee and said they are unable to clear the pending bills because the Controller of Budget is not in office. So, they should not give an excuse of the Controller of Budget not being in office. Yet, she was there in 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. These are pending bills that have not been cleared from that time. People are dying and have been auctioned because of money they borrowed from banks. With you indulgence, can you order the Committee to give a report tomorrow by 2.00 p.m. so that ...
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26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First, I would like to take this opportunity to send my message of condolences to the people of West Pokot and to the families of Kenyans who lost their loved ones in the disaster. It is very painful to lose people in that kind of disaster where you are not aware, you are just asleep, it is raining and things happen. People are swept by floods. You cannot even recover the bodies.
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26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
Having said that, the question that we need to interrogate as a House is how we should respond to disasters. That is the main thing. It is not the first one neither is it going to be the last one. Disasters happen. They happen all over the world. As Hon. Sossion has said, climate change has caught up with us. Climate change has brought a lot of effects on the mode of life in this universe. I thought with the new Constitution, we wanted to devolve power and resources to counties. Devolution is supposed to deal with many of the ...
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26 Nov 2019 in National Assembly:
As much as I know this was a disaster of high magnitude, county governments should be well equipped to handle some of these disasters. They are the first line of defence. They are the people on the ground. They are governments for heaven’s sake. The name they have in the Constitution is “county government”. If a government cannot rescue the lives of its citizens, it does not need to be called a government. It should be disbanded. West Pokot, the last time I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this ...
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