Ledama Olekina

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• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: Most of the people who suffer in terms of compulsory acquisition are poor citizens. It may be a wake-up call to all of us, as leaders, here that unless we take a brief moment from our mothers’ womb to our tomb in defending those people whose property is taken away by the Government to better other people, all of us will be cursed by those innocent people who stay hungry. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is sad that in this country, maybe the planning was done poorly such that when the Government wants to construct roads, it has to take land away from innocent people. Maybe other people did it intentionally, but it is about time. I know that we discussed issues of the Land Value Index Laws (Amendment) Bill in this House and are still waiting for it to be assented into law. However, we still have a law that is very clear in terms of the process of compensation. When you acquire land, it is gazetted and you have ... view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: It is time we became serious because the land was taken from them in July, 2018. Even if they are compensated right now, whatever amount of money they will be given to get new homes, it may not be equivalent to the size of land that was taken away from them. When my colleague, the distinguished Senator for Machakos County, stated that the award is being varied downwards on a daily basis, it worries me. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: The Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources has to be serious once and for all. They need to sit down with Ministry of Lands and the National Land Commission (NLC) and try to find a way of bringing sanity to this enterprise, which is designed to benefit only rich people who go about grabbing land. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: Finally, if we, in this House of union, do not take the matter of land very seriously, when we will be out, it will be our pieces of land which will be grabbed. We will end up scratching our heads and saying that we wish we knew. Since we now know, we should act now. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: I thank you. view
• 1 Aug 2019 in Senate: Yes. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to welcome my good friends, the delegation from Estonia. I hope that they will have a great time in Kenya. Estonia is a very small country but they are leading in technology. Estonia has the solution to all the issues that we have been talking about controlling own source revenue. 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
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: In Estonia, every building is numbered. If there is a building that generates a lot of income, the county government is able to compute every single cent. We can learn a lot from them. I am happy that the Committee on ICT will visit Estonia so that they can learn from them. I spent my Christmas Holiday in Estonia, and I was very happy to be hosted by Rev. Toomas Nigola and his wife. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in Senate: My advice to the children from Bungoma and Nairobi counties is that we dreamt so high for us to represent the people of Kenya. In future, unless we focus in protecting our environment, we may not even be able to come here. Yesterday, we talked about the causes of cancer. Some of the carcinogenic are brought about by the pollution in our environment. I therefore encourage them to plant trees when they go back to their schools. When they graduate and can count all the trees that they have planted, I will pay for their university education. view