Kipchumba Murkomen

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• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. As a matter of fact, it is true that Hon. William Kamket is attending the funeral of our Chief Victor Sebei, who was unfortunately killed during a livestock recovery incident in Loruk. I was in Loruk, and I sent my condolences to the family. I sent the Member of Parliament to the funeral today. It was an unfortunate situation. The chiefs have done a very good job recovering livestock in Kerio Valley and partnering with the operations team to recover the livestock. There is an ongoing investigation to establish whether the Chief was killed ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: one of the locations does not meet the threshold for academic qualifications. That case is under review. Similar cases are under review in a few other areas in the country. On the Question raised by Hon. Kangogo, a lot of progress has been made in the last two years as a result of "Operation Maliza Uhalifu " in Kerio Valley. The situation was not good early last year because of the attacks in various parts of the Valley. A lot of progress has been made. Leaders here will agree with me that we now have relative calm at the border ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: in a big way. Despite this, disarmament cannot just happen in one area. With the porous borders that we have with our neighbours from Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Somalia, there is easy proliferation of small arms. Even as the Government plans to do this disarmament in the future or the long run, we need to deal with the supply of ammunition. We discovered that most of the ammunition used to attack people in the Valley and many parts of this country comes from our police officers. They are either procured from outside the country or from our factory in ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: There is a reason the bandits reach Laikipia, and they stop there. They do not progress to Nyeri, Murang'a or Nairobi because those are civilised parts of the country. We need to make those parts of the country as civilised as the other parts of the country so that people will not see the need to engage in violence. I know there are plans for road infrastructure because I was in that Ministry, and they must continue. We must open that area. We must tarmac the road from Maralal to Baragoi and other roads in that region. We must also ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: Sorry, I forgot to answer the last Question by Hon. Ng'elechei about village elders. We have drafted a policy and regulations on them. They are now going through public participation. When we are done, they will be brought to this House. Then, we will collectively decide how to take care of our village elders and, perhaps, give them some honoraria that will make them proud as they continue supporting us in conflict resolution, peacebuilding, and security operations. I will come back to this, House. I thank Hon. Ng'elechei, who is a Member of the Committee. They have done a fantastic ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: country. I thank the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs for a good job. Thank you. view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I will respond as follows: following the President’s directive of making Kenya a visa-free country with effect from 1st January 2024, the State Department for Citizen Services introduced the ETA system. It provides advanced security screening of travellers before they arrive in the country. The State Department for Citizen Services engaged a consortium, Travizory Border Security and Konvergenz Network Solutions, to undertake the implementation of ETA under a self-financing Public Private Partnership (PPP) piloting framework. For the standard ETA, which cost US$30, the service provider was paid US$8.5. The United States of America (USA) multiple ETA costs US$160, ... view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: cent increase from 2023 and in-bound tourism earnings rising by 19.79 per cent to Ksh452.2 billion. This is an independent and objective appraisal of the positive impact of ETA on the tourism sector, among other factors that influenced the rise in the number of tourists and a corresponding increase in business earnings. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, because there is a specific Question on the other administrative units, if you allow me, I will respond at this point on the ETA, and then when I will be answering the other questions … view
• 2 Apr 2025 in National Assembly: I will deal with that, Hon. Speaker. I have noted all the Questions raised by the Members. Let me focus now on the ETA. As indicated in my answer, the local company is Konvergence Network Solutions. It is a local company that partnered with Travizory Border Security to provide ETA on the Public Private Partnership (PPP) on pilot terms. When it was time to determine whether we should sign a long-term contract with the consortium of Travizory and Konvergence, we made a decision in the Ministry that it was better that RTA revert to the Ministry itself and be run ... view