Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: situations here in Nairobi where people are sold food laced with chemicals and they are dying. It is important to separate the two because of the kind of peculiarity that we have. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, finally, we must also deal with the question of selling medicine and certain chemicals. I do not know what happened to the law that was dealing with selling dangerous equipment. I see someone going around selling knives, panga s, machetes and spears in the streets. We need to think about that whether they are the right weapons that people should be carrying in the manner in which they are doing and handling in the streets. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: I will come to that. When it comes exactly to the question of weapons, it is terrible. There is also dawa ya mende and some other things being hawked in our streets. The most famous chemical sold around is “ Dawa ya mende, dawa ya mend e,” along the streets of Nairobi. You wonder whether it is fair for those chemicals to be sold in that manner because it is poison. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I must confess that in my earlier days just when I left campus, I bought dawa ya mende in the streets of Nairobi. It was a very efficient chalk. One just took it to the house and did some markings around and all the mendes were dead. Was it not dangerous that we were jeopardising our lives with the same mendes eating that chalk and maybe crawling into our sufurias, food storage and so forth? Some of these things must be regulated, particularly pharmaceutical products. You will find people selling panadol and painkillers. The selling of traditional ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: The vendors sell their goods at cheap prices. We must protect them because they serve a particular interest in the society because people can get items they use at home from them. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, as I support this Bill, I urge the Chairperson of the Committee to continue taking into consideration our concerns and incorporate them at the Committee Stage, so that we have a very beautiful Bill. I did not ask the Chair whether this is the Bill by Gov. Mwangi wa Iria because he cannot sponsor it and that is why it was taken up by our Committee. If that is the case, then that is a good way of working with county governments. We encourage more governors to work closely with the Senate and come up with innovative ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I have no doubt as far as your gender is concerned. The Speaker was on the Chair before you and that confusion is still there. We know that governors who refuse to appear before the Senate love drama. That is what Nairobians call vipindire. We are not interested in that kind of drama. The Senate is only interested in finding the truth on how our resources are being used in the counties. The moment our County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) issues orders like they do, they should make recommendations to the EACC and the DCI ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: There are six governors who used to be Senators and I know we will have about 10 of them after this term. They must work closely with the Senate to make systems better. I do not know why governors want to handle money directly. The CPAIC should work with county governments and bring another legislation that will remove powers of governors to deal with money. As a governor, why would you want to deal with the money, resource allocation and procurement? They must not be involved in that. The same way nobody imagines that the President should be summoned on ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Basically, we must ensure that governors work closely with us on oversight and in our endeavour to promote county governments to get the necessary resources. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to support. view