Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 231 to 240 of 3022.

• 19 Apr 2023 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, in the last Senate, I was involved in mediation only once. The CRA was able to rationalize the duties and functions of county governments in relation to the national Government. In most of their recommendations, they were able to take us through the process. It looks like that we did not go through that process this year. Nonetheless, they were able to take us through the functions especially the agricultural functions. Currently, we are having problems of high cost of production and fertilizers. I want to thank the Government for coming in with interventions that they have ... view
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• 19 Apr 2023 in Senate: The same thing applies when it comes to the Ministry of Health. It is devolved to the counties, but we still see a huge budget that is in the Ministry of Health Headquarters. Why should we not facilitate our counties? Our doctors are suffering, they are now up in arms and they have threatened to go on strike in a few days. You ask yourself, why should that be? Why do we not start looking at what functions were transferred and which ones were not so that we transfer them? Therefore, the CRA was right to give us that information. ... view
• 12 Apr 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity to contribute to this Bill. I rise to congratulate our colleague, Sen. Mungatana, MGH, for spearheading the development and enactment of this Bill. I participated in the Bomas of Kenya process for development of the Constitution. What appeared at that time to be bedevilling the development of this country was the lack of focus on the economic and social development of individual Kenyans. Several times people talked of ‘ yajenga nchi;’ ‘ we are building the nation.’ In Bomas of Kenya, it became clear that we seemed focused on developing the ... view
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• 12 Apr 2023 in Senate: and she was told to go and buy very basic things. This means that even accessing proper healthcare in our county hospitals is still a challenge. In the Constitution, we are talking of the highest attainable standards of health that we can give our people. We should concentrate and focus on what this Bill is saying. We should focus our strategic plans to answer to the basic socio-economic rights of Kenyans because we have enough resources. I do not want to say that resources are not enough. What this Senate sent to our counties should be enough for that. It ... view
• 12 Apr 2023 in Senate: on the streets. Nobody even sales bananas in Kisii because you will find them on the roadside. Those are productive parts of this country. I come from a region which is the grain basket of this country, that is, Uasin Gishu and Trans Nzoia. However, sometimes when we have a bumper harvest and start fighting over the prices, the people in Turkana and northern Kenya region are suffering, yet it is their right to get food. Access to food must be facilitated by the Government and nobody else. If you allow food to be transported by middlemen, prices go up. ... view
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• 12 Apr 2023 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, agriculture and heath functions are devolved. I am happy with this Bill because with the coming in of the Oversight Fund for Senators, we should have our committees going to the ground to question why some things are not happening. We need to know why we are not able to attain the highest level of health services and give adequate amount of balanced food to our people. Some of this could just be because of facilitation by the Government. When we talk about reasonable standards of sanitation, there are people who do not even understand the ... view
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