Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: Yes. Very good. view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Let me begin by saying that I support the mediated version of the Sugar Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is a country that depends entirely on agriculture and Sen. Mungatana was right to say that in countries where people care about any industry, they invest heavily and lead. I am glad that he mentioned Mauritius. Narok County has been zoned. Rather, it has been termed as the southern catchment area together with Migori, Homa Bay and Kisii counties. One of the things that I support this mediated version of the Bill is that ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: you cannot sell that sugarcane to any other catchment area, or anybody else from another area if you have that contract. That is very important. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is also important for us to demystify what we have done with this mediated version of the Bill. It now means that if you are a sugarcane grower in Narok, Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori, you belong to one region. The term zoning was complicated. People did not like to deal with the term zoning. Now, you are one catchment area. It is imperative that you are represented in the ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: I am pushing this country towards adopting meritocracy. Put someone there because they know what they are talking about and know value addition when it comes to sugar. I wish that we can become like Mauritius. When you go to Mauritius, today, you can buy a lot of different candies and different sugar types. For those who indulge themselves in alcohol, you can get rum out of it. For others who construct low cost housing, you can use some of the sugarcane materials to construct. There is a lot of value addition. Those are the things that we need. We ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: . I saw a tourist who came into this country and had a dollar. He said with a dollar, he could have breakfast, lunch and dinner and be left with some little pocket change to enjoy a snack later. Some of the foods that he listed down are tea and chapati . I believe with the new introduction of a fee to check whether food has got any Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) component in it, it is going to be more expensive to afford view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the report on the Select Committee on County, Publics and Investment Committee (CPIC) of the Auditor-General for the financial statement for the listed counties, water service providers for the financial years 2018/2019, and 2020/2021. Those counties have already been listed by the Mover of this Motion. I will restrict myself to the observations that we made during the enquiry on the way these counties managed their water resources. One of the biggest problems is that many the water companies were being run by a board without the input of the county governors. In ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: One of the key recommendations of our committee was that each of the 47 counties have got to look at their resources, so that we can avoid non-revenue water. They should look at what they need from these regional bodies, but ultimately, work towards managing their own resources. My colleague has already elaborated clearly on the losses that each of these companies were getting. There was a lot of unaccounted for water, which came in as a result of dilapidated infrastructure because there are many leakages. So, when you come to a situation where two counties share one company and ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: We have a big problem in Nairobi City County, for example. The water from Nairobi City County comes from Murang’a County, or maybe the next county, yet there are counties that do not have water. So, the water comes here. We need to start asking ourselves, how do we ensure that there is sufficient water that can sustain the residents of Nairobi City County? It is by investing in big water reservoirs. This is the responsibility of the national government. If the national Government can just take the third or fourth schedule, and look at what their role is, and ... view
• 23 Oct 2024 in Senate: you will be shocked. There is a lot of mismanagement of the little resources that we have in the country. Whatever happens at the county headquarters also happens in those small companies that are open to run our resources. We must bite the bullet. Each of our 47 county delegations here must engage county governors to re-examine and carry out an audit of our water infrastructure. There is no point of us buying a lot of water from nearby counties, and then all that water is lost because of leakages and dilapidated infrastructure, with some of them being carcinogenic. So, ... view
• 17 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Dr. Mulwa, if you look at the response in volume six by the Deputy President. This is 4.2, volume six, which is on page 11. This is in response to the allegations that he called you to push for the bid bond in paragraph four of the witness affidavit of Andrew Mulwa. He contradicts himself by claiming that on 11th July 2023, I pressured him to surrender the original bid bond. Yet by the letter dated 5th May, 2023, KEMSA had requested collections of the original bid; thus, there was no cause for pressure to ... view