Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2721 to 2730 of 8498.

• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Yes. In Meru County, they campaigned and, in fact, formed the government together. view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Kisumu County was even worse because Gov. (Prof.) Anyang‟-Nyong‟o and Sen. Outa campaigned and shared the government together, but they do not see eye to eye at the moment. I am not faulting governors or Senators. The design and architecture of our Constitution was such that at all times, the Senator must oversight the county government, which includes the governor. Every time you raise the issues, they will definitely put you at loggerheads with your governor. A Senator who does not raise those issues risks the possibility of not being re- elected. I do not know how ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: that, indeed, these people were pursuing a higher road of leadership and were intended in leaving a legacy. Talking about legacy, I have made up my mind as the Senate Majority Leader. I will not comprise for political expediency, anything that touches on the Senate and deals with the jurisdiction of the Senate and the mandate of the Senate to protect devolution, which includes counties and county governments. This is because history is a very dangerous judge. I have read and seen the things that people of the yesteryears have done and some of them have lived to regret in ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: because we know that history will acquit us. We know there will come a time when people will go back and ask what exactly happened when these things happened. When the impact of what we do here will now be felt out there, people will rise and say Senate is very serious in addressing issues. I get so many people who say: “By the way, we have now come to the realisation that the Senate is very serious in addressing issues.” I encourage Senators to take that route and do things that will be remembered later. They may not be ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I congratulate Sen. Kwamboka for the good job she has done to come up with this very important Motion. The Bible says that those who take care of the vulnerable are blessed, particularly, widows and orphans. Most of the street children that we talk about are orphans. Therefore, this Motion goes to the core of auditing the current status of protection and taking care of street families. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember that the Street Families Rehabilitation Trust Fund (SFRTF) was established in 2003 when the Cabinet Secretary (CS), the late Karisa Maitha, came ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Local Government. He started a robust project of dealing with street children. This is what led to the SFRTF. The question of how to protect street families and children for that matter has been on and off from the core of our national responsibility. If you want to know what is more valued in a nation, you look at the budget to see how much money has been put in place, for example, in the SFRTF and the attention to street families. It has become normal for people not to care about those who are in the streets. In fact, ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: This reminds us of Article 174 of the Constitution which says that the function of devolution is basically to provide a framework within which national functions are to be performed at the local level. Therefore, for us to identify the persons we want to reach out to, let us use the lowest unit. For that purpose, the constitutional lowest unit is the ward. So, we need to ask ourselves whether we can have a ward officer at the county level who deals with only street families and children so that we identify where the families came from, what made them ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I think going forward, the Committee on Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC) should move from just auditing of the Auditor- General‟s reports to receiving budget reports from counties. Let us, as a Senate, audit every function and how it is funded so that we are able to ask ourselves the following questions: How much money has been set aside for purposes of children‟s welfare? How much has been set aside for agriculture in the counties? How much money has been put in health? What intervention has been done? This is so that we ask ourselves whether all ... view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: I am glad, Madam Temporary Speaker, that we are moving with you in the spirit. When the Pharisees wanted to stone to death a prostitute before Jesus, he told them to pause a bit and asked who amongst them had never sinned. He wanted to know who amongst them had the moral authority to throw a stone at her and everybody dropped their stone and went away in shame. view
• 30 May 2019 in Senate: Perhaps, we should confess our sins than confess sins of others or point fingers on other people and take responsibility. If we are thieves, we should accept that we are thieves and, like Zacchaeus, return four times of what we have stolen, so that we move forward than pointing fingers on others. view