Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, and to my hon. colleagues from both sides of the House, I rise to oppose this Motion vehemently. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Motion proposed by the Majority Whip does two things to this country. It divides this country into two. It pushes more resources to those people who have always had resources. The problem we have in this country is that sometimes people think we are ignorant, but we are not. Earlier on when the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget read his report, he gave reasons why he was proposing to deviate from the parameters which were proposed by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). What this means is that when you increase health to ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you tell me that you want to increase the parameter on agriculture to 12 per cent, from even one and yet statistically the Maputo Declaration puts it at 10 per cent, you will be taking money away from counties that have fewer households to counties that have more households. You are taking money away from Nairobi City and Mombasa counties. What this proposal, which is now being amended by the Majority Whip is doing, is dividing this country into two. When are we ever going to say that we are tired of people in Narok County ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this Motion that is now being amended by the Majority Whip does precisely what I have told you; it divides this country into two. We cannot say that we do not care or do not give a hoot about the people at the Coast, Narok, Turkana or the Kamba nation. We are a nation of 45 ethnic groups. As leaders, who have been elected not by our tribes, but all the people who live in those counties that we come from need to think about their future and not our own selfish gains. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: The amount of lobbying happening here makes us even shameful. We are useless as leaders – let me put it that way - if we can entertain to be whipped in a particular way and enticed to support a process, which we know very well will have serious repercussions on the unity of this nation. We will be failing as leaders. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: I plead with my colleagues that before you vote for something you must ask yourself what it is you are voting for. I have taken time to analyze all the proposals that are being brought here by the Committee, and now being pushed or postponed by the Majority Whip. On the issue of land, the proposal on the table is that we reduce allocation of revenue to five percent and introduce something else, which is so strange and has never been used in the world, which is called a square root. That means that you are now reducing, where you ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Where did the Committee get statistics to back that? If you take Narok County, which is 17,000 square kilometers, and now reduce it to a square root of 143, it means that the people of Narok who live in Kilgoris can never get any services. It also means that any rural access money that can be given to Narok County, which we will be losing drastically--- We can only do so up to Lolung’a, and cannot move money all the way to Kilgoris. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: It is sad for this country, but I am only happy today because of one thing. I am happy that we are finally going to make a decision. When you make a decision, it means you are ready to become a leader. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: I only plead with my colleagues that we should not support at all this Motion of extending a problem. We should kill the entire Motion and the entire Committee Repot now. This is because we do not want a situation where if you sit and ask the Committee Chairperson where he got the issue of square root, he will not tell you. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I summarize by saying the following words; I strongly oppose the amendment by Sen. Kang’ata, the Senate Majority Whip, because I do not believe in postponing the problem. If we have to make a decision in two years, we might as well be decisive, right or wrong, and make a decision. If we postpone this matter for an additional two years, it will be very selfish of us because it will continue biting us. Mr. Speaker, sir, later on, I can expound on the statistics, why the Committee report--- I thank you. view