Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2481 to 2490 of 4248.

• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether to support. However, let me just congratulate my colleagues for taking their time to look at the recomendations of the steering Committee and the BBI taskforce. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my biggest concern is that two of the most critical recommendations for this House which were proposed by the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights were not taken into consideration in the final BBI report. One of them is with regard to Article 123 of the Constitution. That is the right to vote. A few months ago, we were ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: particularly the voting power and revenue sharing should have been captured in the Constitutional Amendment Bill. I will reserve my comments for a later session. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Adjournment Motion. Let me begin by saying that I am a very proud Senator of the Republic of Kenya. I am proud of my colleagues including Sen. Stewart Madzayo, my senior, Sen. Faki, my brother also senior, Sen. Sakaja Johnson, “ Super Senator ”, for having come together to show this country a direction that we cannot achieve anything when we only think about our stomachs without thinking about the rest of the 47 million Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, “ Team Kenya ” did a fantastic job to ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: Hilo ni jina tunaitana. Haina maana yeyote. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was amused by my good friend, Sen. Irungu Kang’ata, because he rose to move a Motion and he did not sign that report. Some of these things are very interesting. I will let that slide. I am quite happy with the work that this Senate did. 14 Bills were assented to by the President. That is good work for this Senate. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on the issue of the BBI, I want to be very clear that when we worked as “ Team Kenya ” and eventually ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: There is no point of having sat here, burnt the midnight oil and then at the end of the day, we still divide the country by bringing the argument of “one man one vote one shilling.” Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my heart bleeds for the people of Lamu. When this Bill goes through, they will be denied money. My heart bleeds for the people of Samburu whom when this Bill passes they will be denied some money. It saddens me that this Senate will no longer have voting powers to determine any matter because of the deletion of Article 123. ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, on a point of order. I want to clarify one thing. My dear brother who I feel bad interrupting, we need to be factual. Today we have read in the dailies that the National Treasury is seeking to defer the payment of interest on T bills. Counties are claiming that they have not received money. Let us be practical. I concur with Sen. Sakaja, when he talks about parliament being given opportunity to speak and talk about this issue. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in Senate: It is on the issue of the content of the debate. The issue here is my good friend Sen. Sakaja said that when we pass this amendment-- I am on a point of order, Sen. Faki, when the BBI passes counties will get money. I want to understand why we have a challenge currently on paying interest on Treasury Bills and sending money to counties. Let us not bite what we cannot chew. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. we have a serious problem and this will not be resolved by the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. I register my appreciation for the Petitioner who has yet again reminded us that we are the House of reason that will able to solve these problems. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: We have a serious problem. The Senate Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources currently has 27 Petitions, 20 of them dealing with land. The Committee also currently has 30 Statements which all have to do with land issues. The issue of the Petition is that there is timeframe of about 60 days to complete this. 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
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: I beseech you to look at ways that this can be resolved through an Ad Hoc Committee bringing all these 27 Petitions. If you were to then commit this Petition to the Committee, it would make the 28th Petition. view