Kipchumba Murkomen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: We know that that objective has not been achieved. It is because the focus has changed. A lot has gone to a phantom called uniting the country. If I may digress a little bit, you will realize that this phantom called ‘uniting the country’ has become a very terrible excuse for not achieving this very important responsibility of UHC. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I heard the President speak in his Presidential Address to Parliament and when he launched Nakuru City yesterday. You know that your contribution, my contribution and that of Sen. M. Kajwang’ and other Members was very key in ensuring that Nakuru becomes a City. That is a story for another day. I am glad that the Governor of Nakuru recognizes as much. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: However, that is not the issue. The issue is that I heard the President say that it was important because the country was burning and that they had to set aside everything, including UHC, to unite the country. I posed a question to the President and the former 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. view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Prime Minister. Who was burning the country? In law, you cannot benefit from your own actions. I need to get the right principle in equity. You cannot set the county on fire and then meet to say that you put out the fire. You then come back to the people of Kenya and tell them that on the account of the fire that you set in the country, you came together and united. However, you abandon UHC, food security, the housing project and manufacturing matters to unite. You now want to govern the country and be allowed to reward the ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am not discussing the person of the President. To start with, Sen. Farhiya, I am discussing Universal Health Coverage (UHC) and why it has delayed from being achieved. Sen. Farhiya is a recent visitor to Jubilee. If she wants to understand who wrote the Jubilee agreement in 2013, it was myself and Sen. (Prof.) Kindiki. She needs some tutorials outside this House to understand what we promised the people of Kenya, what we achieved and why we failed to achieve what we wanted to achieve in the second term. For my friend, Sen. Wambua, you ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: treason and the principal treason suspect is now roaming around the country telling people the country was burning. Who was burning it? That is why I am saying it is unfortunate that this very programme is coming late in the day. The walk towards UHC is very relevant. I do not know Sen. Farhiya needs to listen to me very carefully. The reason why we have not achieved UHC is that we have been chasing some phantom called Handshake, uniting the country, and Building Bridges Initiative (BBI), some things that have wasted the country for four years. These are the ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it was the High Court and the Court of Appeal that declared all that business as null and void. Maybe if Sen. Wambua would feel better if I use the words ‘null and void.” The other definition of null and void is nonsense. I am just saying that I want to stick to the Bill. The first thing I would like to capture or refer to in this Bill is Clause 9 which is Section 4 actually of the Act itself. It captures the board members. It is dealing with the question of the board. The ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Secondly, there is a point brought up by Sen. Wambua which is the representation of religious institutions. When you talk about religious organisations and churches, I would rather explain even further to say most of our religious organisations run hospitals. The Catholic Church has St. Mary's Hospitals, for example, and many other hospitals. In almost every county, they may have two or three dispensaries. You have the African Inland Church (AIC), for example, they run Kapsawar Mission Hospital, Kijabe Mission Hospital which is one of the best in orthopaedic surgery. You have the Methodist Church and Muslim faith who run ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Clause 10 of the Bill amends Section No.5 of the Act. This is discussing the question of empaneling process. The choice of which hospital is going to receive reimbursements from the National Health Insurance Fund (NHI)--- I know that the Bill says “in consultation with the Cabinet Secretary, to set the criteria for empanelment and contracting of health care providers for purpose of this Act”. The process of achieving this should be as transparent as possible. There is a possibility of selectively picking certain hospitals for purposes of a Universal Health Care (UHC) and leaving others. ... view
• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: This is also about the contributions to be made in the long run. This is Section No.6 of the Act, which is Clause 12 of this amendment Bill. We need to have an oversight responsibility of Parliament in determining how much it will be. We do not want NHIF to just wake up and say that employers must contribute Kshs5,000 or Kshs10,000 or Kshs20,000. When they set a new amount, it should come to Parliament for approval because this is akin to taxing the people. It has a financial implication on the people of Kenya. view