Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Kenyans to be given an opportunity to serve their country without considering which clan or tribe they come from, hence, giving them an opportunity. The thing that destroys the concept of governance in this country is the nonsense called clannism and tribalism. People in Kenya talk about something called state capture. In Narok County, we have family capture where one family, that of the Governor Patrick Ole Ntutu, is the one that calls all the shots in the county and gets all the contracts. It is sad that I come from the same clan as the Governor for Narok. I ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Do we ask ourselves about the boy-child? If we put all our efforts on the girl- child, what about the boy-child? Who is going to support the boy-child? These are issues that we need to contextualize. We need to have futuristic thoughts, that is, thinking about what we anticipate may happen in the future. view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Anticipatory governance is a subject that all of us must start thinking about. It cuts across everything. It begins with the human resource. If you only employ one clan, what happens in the future? What about the other clan? Will they be resilient or resentful? What will happen to other ethnic groups? If we only think about the current situation and focus on the past, then we will miss the point. We have to start thinking about the future. Some of the challenges we face are as a result of debts that we have accumulated as a country. If we ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: are our family members, they will continue lining their pockets, yet we leave people who are intelligent and can provide good thinking. If a person is not related to me or did not vote for me, I leave them out. By doing that, we put ourselves in a bigger hole. When future generations come, they will pay for our sins, yet they never subscribed to it. We need to change our mindset completely. view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: When I was going through this Bill, I looked at Article 232(1) on values and principles of public service. Article 232(1) (h) is about representation of Kenya’s diverse communities. view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Going through it, I asked myself: How come no one ever thought about the audits? Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, we talk about it. We need to have affirmative action and such like things. County governments have internal audit mechanisms. There is also the issue of ethnic balancing. When you look at every Auditor- General’s Report, there is always a concept of ethnic balancing. According to the Auditor-General, there is no ethnic balance. Do we ever ask ourselves about the audits? view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Hon. Dawood, a Member of the National Assembly, thought about this Bill to operationalize Article 232 of the Constitution of Kenya. I hope we shall add more to this Bill during the Committee of the Whole. That clause states as follows- “2. The Public Service (Values and Principles) Act is amended in Section 16 - (a) In sub-clause (3), by inserting the following paragraph immediately after paragraph (d)that is being amended reads as follows “In 23(3) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after (d) - “(da) details on the human resource establishment within the Service Commission, outlining the total ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: I beseech the Sponsors of this Bill to demystify it further and detail their relations with Heads of Departments (HoDs) and heads of the entities. You will be shocked. After doing that, we should start thinking about the consequences. What happens if it violates the conflict of interest principle? That is why I am saying that we need to expound further. view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: We may have an audit and a report is tabled. We can even table it here, but what next after that? We need to expound and say, for example, to prohibit employing your relatives in the public service. You can employ them in your private company and nobody will give a hoot in hell because it is your company. However, when it is something that taxpayers are paying for, then you have no business discriminating against other ethnic groups or individuals. There are ethnic groups like my community; the Maasai. If we do not stand firm and fight for their ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: The other day, I was talking to the Vice Chancellor of the University. We discussed about coming up with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the community that I come from, which donated land to the university. I was happy that she 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 Services,Senate. view