Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Two, I have heard my good friend, the Chairperson of the Committee on Energy, saying that county governments will not have budgets to be able to deal with these issues. When you talk about the issue of bulk water management, if there is water in Murang’a County and the people of Nairobi are benefiting from that water, the best thing we can do is to empower the County Government of Murang’a to ensure that they sell that water to the people of Nairobi. We are the House that defends devolution. Unless my good Chair wants to amend the Constitution, the ... view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my point is clear. We are debating. So, it is for me to either agree or reject. In my debate, I pointed out clearly that what my good friend, the Chairman of the Committee on Energy has said, does not hold any water. He said that county governments view
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• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: do not have budgets to control their resources. I said even the national Government is relying on the IMF and the World Bank to borrow loans. The object and memorandum of this Bill is clear. I hope my good friend, the Commissioner, can read it. It says that the principal object of the Bill is to amend the Water Act, 2016, for the purpose of operationalizing public private partnership in the water sector. I said that I have a serious problem with policies of the Kenya Kwanza Government because everything has become commercial. Powers are being given to the Cabinet ... view
• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, him and I just came from another committee, where we had concerns about the Cabinet Secretaries’ decisions and the powers that they have. However, that is for another day. Let me try and summarize my points as follows. I firmly believe that it is about time, with the help of the secretariat, that we set up a committee that scrutinises Bills that are seconded to this House from the National Assembly. I say that because of the experience of Bills that we sent from this House to the National Assembly. Most of the Bills that we ... view
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• 14 Feb 2024 in Senate: If you tell me that decisions will be made in Nairobi, with all these bureaucracies, by the time water is distributed to Narok, a child would have finished primary school and gone to high school. Therefore, this Bill is ill-advised. We need to start thinking about the future of this nation. One thing I want us to remember is that governments and politicians come and go, but this country called Kenya must remain and will always remain. Since we have agreed to be debating issues and pass legislation that will support this nation, we must come up with amendments to ... view
• 7 Dec 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to briefly support the Statement by Sen. Oketch Gicheru on the importance of having an official diplomatic mission in the Kingdom of Morocco. Having an official embassy is very important. I know we have challenges given that there was some confusion on our diplomatic ties with the country of Songhai, which is neighbouring Morocco. However, it is important as a country to have a physical diplomatic mission to assist the foreign department to be able to gather intelligence about the economy of that country, in order to understand the position of that country. It ... view
• 7 Dec 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to briefly support the Statement by Sen. Oketch Gicheru on the importance of having an official diplomatic mission in the Kingdom of Morocco. Having an official embassy is very important. I know we have challenges given that there was some confusion on our diplomatic ties with the country of Songhai, which is neighbouring Morocco. However, it is important as a country to have a physical diplomatic mission to assist the foreign department to be able to gather intelligence about the economy of that country, in order to understand the position of that country. It ... view
• 7 Dec 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to briefly support the Statement by Sen. Oketch Gicheru on the importance of having an official diplomatic mission in the Kingdom of Morocco. Having an official embassy is very important. I know we have challenges given that there was some confusion on our diplomatic ties with the country of Songhai, which is neighbouring Morocco. However, it is important as a country to have a physical diplomatic mission to assist the foreign department to be able to gather intelligence about the economy of that country, in order to understand the position of that country. It ... view