Ledama Olekina

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• 12 Oct 2023 in Senate: 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
• 12 Oct 2023 in Senate: The other important amendment is the issue of exceptional circumstances. We do not need to burden Parliament. It is good that we can give leeway to the Cabinet Secretary to make certain decisions when we have a pandemic. I support it. view
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to make comments on the Digital Health Bill. One of my pet peeves is working hard to propose legislations and seeing them collapse in the ‘Lower House.’ The three arms of Government have their distinct roles. The main role of this arm of Government is to develop legislation. I speak as a Member of the Committee on Health. In July 2023, my colleague in this Committee, Sen. Kibwana, proposed an E- Health Bill. It was tabled in this House for First Reading and published on the 27th July. If you look at the ... view
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: 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
• 11 Oct 2023 in Senate: This Bill is now going to jeopardize the future of our data. Today, data is the most expensive commodity in the world. This Bill, because of the way it is being rushed, has serious loopholes. I just want to beseech my colleagues, that if we are now going to use public funds, we go through the process. This is because Sen. Kibwana’s Bill will come here and go through the three processes. It will go through public participation and that is public money that we are spending. Why do we not have some common sense to prevail? We bring the ... view
• 21 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the report of the Committee on the approval of the nominee of the CBK. During this time, we are dealing with a lot of challenges as an economy. We have issues that must be thought out clearly. The only way we are going to save this country is by ensuring that we pass or advance economic policies that will think about future generations. 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
• 21 Sep 2023 in Senate: One of the biggest challenges that we have in this country is that many people who are tasked with responsibilities are not qualified enough. In most cases, they are appointed based on who they know, and where they have been. When it comes to the issue of monetary policy and the economy of a country such as this, over the last two years, we have seen the way the exchange currency in this country has gone down. Today, a Dollar is trading at about Kshs150. I dare say all that leads down to the policies. When you look at our ... view
• 21 Sep 2023 in Senate: will still end up paying a lot of money and that pain will still go to the citizens. We have to be clear. Maybe we should have had those arrangements basing it on the Kenya Shilling. I will be happy if this gentleman would come up with policies that would propel our Kenya Shilling to be a currency that we can negotiate in the East African community. I was in Arusha the other day and I needed to deposit some Kenya Shillings in my bank in Kenya. I was very happy because I walked into Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) in ... view
• 21 Sep 2023 in Senate: Constitution mandates each and every Cabinet Secretary to table the report on how their departments are performing. It is time to consider amending the Constitution and the PFM Act to set timelines, goals and milestones whereby the Central Bank Governor can come to Parliament and give a report on the efforts that is put in place in terms of developing policy that will end up stabilizing our currencies. I believe that will promote confidence among traders in this country. I support. view
• 20 Sep 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the two Petitions and I will start by supporting the Petition which was read by Sen. Mwaruma. In this country today, our teachers are suffering. I have been agonizing on what to do on whether to bring another Petition here because of the welfare of the teachers. We have over 30,000 teachers who have died and their families have not been compensated in accordance with the law. We pass laws in this House. We have the Public Service Superannuation Scheme (PSSS) Act which we passed to ensure that there is no ... view