Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, my two minutes are to be used on important matters. I wish to comment on the Statement by Sen. Kibwana on the status of Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in your Communication this afternoon, you indicated to us that the National Assembly has rejected the amendments to the Division of Revenue Act (DORA) that we proposed. I request that the Members who you will appoint to the Mediation Committee remain focused because we need money to go to our hospitals. We do not want a situation where three or four parents are sharing a bed--- view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: I plead with our colleagues here that this time round, we need to think about how we can ring-fence money to support our hospitals. In my county of Narok, we have a hospital, which was funded by the World Bank. It is not complete. We need to understand what our priorities are and healthcare should be one among them. I sit in the Standing Committee on Health and I hope we can actually discuss how to ring- fence money. We need to improve the bed capacity. There was a point when people were talking about Mama Lucy Kibaki Hospital only ... view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: Yes. Very good. view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let me begin by saying that I support the mediated version of the Sugar Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a country that depends entirely on agriculture and Sen. Mungatana was right to say that in countries where people care about any industry, they invest heavily and lead. I am glad that he mentioned Mauritius. Narok County has been zoned. Rather, it has been termed as the southern catchment area together with Migori, Homa Bay and Kisii counties. One of the things that I support this mediated version of the Bill is that ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: you cannot sell that sugarcane to any other catchment area, or anybody else from another area if you have that contract. That is very important. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us to demystify what we have done with this mediated version of the Bill. It now means that if you are a sugarcane grower in Narok, Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori, you belong to one region. The term zoning was complicated. People did not like to deal with the term zoning. Now, you are one catchment area. It is imperative that you are represented in the ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: I am pushing this country towards adopting meritocracy. Put someone there because they know what they are talking about and know value addition when it comes to sugar. I wish that we can become like Mauritius. When you go to Mauritius, today, you can buy a lot of different candies and different sugar types. For those who indulge themselves in alcohol, you can get rum out of it. For others who construct low cost housing, you can use some of the sugarcane materials to construct. There is a lot of value addition. Those are the things that we need. We ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: . I saw a tourist who came into this country and had a dollar. He said with a dollar, he could have breakfast, lunch and dinner and be left with some little pocket change to enjoy a snack later. Some of the foods that he listed down are tea and chapati . I believe with the new introduction of a fee to check whether food has got any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) component in it, it is going to be more expensive to afford view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the report on the Select Committee on County, Publics and Investment Committee (CPIC) of the Auditor-General for the financial statement for the listed counties, water service providers for the financial years 2018/2019, and 2020/2021. Those counties have already been listed by the Mover of this Motion. I will restrict myself to the observations that we made during the enquiry on the way these counties managed their water resources. One of the biggest problems is that many the water companies were being run by a board without the input of the county governors. In ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: One of the key recommendations of our committee was that each of the 47 counties have got to look at their resources, so that we can avoid non-revenue water. They should look at what they need from these regional bodies, but ultimately, work towards managing their own resources. My colleague has already elaborated clearly on the losses that each of these companies were getting. There was a lot of unaccounted for water, which came in as a result of dilapidated infrastructure because there are many leakages. So, when you come to a situation where two counties share one company and ... view