Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I am very happy for the intervention by my good friend, who I serve with in the Committee on Energy. That is precisely the reason as to why I am saying that I would want to support this Motion with amendments, so that the Committee on Health can continue performing its function. Today we tabled a report in this House--- view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I am happy that my colleagues are raising those concerns, which are the same concerns that each one of us here who has a fiduciary duty to protect the interests of their counties should be raising. COVID-19 is there and it is real. It is decimating our populations. There are reported and the unreported cases. There are those who are lucky to be able to go to hospitals and those who are unlucky. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Yesterday, we heard the Cabinet Secretary saying that other people - and I am sure these are the rich and famous - have been able to gift themselves with the oxygen cylinders that are supposed to be in hospitals to help everybody. I have no problem with my colleagues questioning my support for this Motion. The reason why I say this is because I would not want this Motion to fail on this Floor. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: We have to lead by example. The economy has essentially been closed; it has been shut but we are going on here. Kenyans will be saying that Members of Parliament are happy to continue staying in office because they are getting allowances. I am saying view
• 30 Mar 2021 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 Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: that we should save face. Let us be honest and candid and say: Yes, we want to close because it is dangerous. I support the idea that--- view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Even before we come here on a weekly basis, we should be submitting our negative results to the Clerk. That is what is happening in other countries. However, if we are standing here and contributing and we are saying that we are opposing, we want to continue doing business, what business are we going to do when the mama mboga out there cannot go to the market because Nairobi is considered a Red Zone, and yet she gets her goods from the other zone? view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, let me change it a little bit. When I started saying that other people who want to continue sitting here on a daily basis and are not thinking about those people who elected them, those people who are jobless, and they say that they want to continue working here, they are not raising issues or serious concerns like what Sen. Kinyua has raised. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Sen. Kinyua has said that I sit in the Committee on Health and I should tell the House what we are doing. The only way that I can continue doing this is when we pass a resolution in this House which is supported by a majority of the distinguished Senators that says let us adjourn, but adjourn in a way that we can continue doing our job. view
• 30 Mar 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, to finalize, I want to state as follows: I will support this Motion with amendments. I hope that those amendments will be allowed to come in. view