12 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, you have heard the compliment I have received from the Senate Minority Leader; that I am an honest person. I am ready to bring this report tomorrow, if it is put on the Order Paper. But as you know the Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries is not in charge of the Order Paper. Immediately it appears on the Order Paper, we will be ready to move it.
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12 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this most important Motion. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was not able to join you in Mombasa and was not in the House yesterday, because of some personal challenges that I had. But I was following the proceedings both in Mombasa and yesterday. I was very happy with the positions taken by the Senators both in Mombasa and in this House yesterday. I was especially very glad to hear the Senate Majority Leader say that whoever touches the Senate Minority Leader touches him and the Senate Minority Leader reciprocates. ...
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12 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Mining has to take place within one county or another. So, for any person to pretend that this law does not affect the counties, he must only not be a lawyer but somebody out of his mind. Time has come for the Senate to fight for its own space. We have a lot of enemies; there are people who do not want to see us within the counties because they say that the work of the Senate is in Nairobi. When we come to Nairobi, the National Assembly says that we have no business passing laws because our work is ...
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12 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the proposal that all the laws which have been passed without reference to the Senate be reviewed by the Supreme Court to test their The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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12 Nov 2014 in Senate:
What I was saying is that we need to go beyond advisory opinion because we have gone that route before and even the advisory opinion itself has been The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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5 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. We, in Meru County, are very embarrassed because – when I talk about embarrassment, I am talking about pecuniary embarrassment – the Level Five hospital in Meru which we used to call the Meru General Hospital is on the verge of collapse. The annual recurrent expenditure for that hospital is about Kshs300 million. You know the struggle we went through in this House when we tried to increase the allocation of funds for Level Five hospitals. Although there were revisions in figures, we, in Meru ...
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5 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. We, in Meru County, are very embarrassed because – when I talk about embarrassment, I am talking about pecuniary embarrassment – the Level Five hospital in Meru which we used to call the Meru General Hospital is on the verge of collapse. The annual recurrent expenditure for that hospital is about Kshs300 million. You know the struggle we went through in this House when we tried to increase the allocation of funds for Level Five hospitals. Although there were revisions in figures, we, in Meru ...
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5 Nov 2014 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. You have been very generous to me.
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