Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: value. It is value for us to have women and men. Why am I saying so? I am saying that because we are representing the same country that the National Assembly is representing. It is the same country; the same counties have constituencies and if we are going to take this just by the quarter, if we use the quarter that, we are going to take more than 30 per cent of the money, then the representation should be more than 30 per cent. Having 94 Members is the best thing that can ever happen to us. view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: I want also to disabuse the fact that it was not in the document. I wish Sen. Wetangula was here. This is because I would have told him that we presented it. I was in a committee of women that presented that. We said that we really need to have Senators Vote. Madam Temporary Speaker, it is until you are stopped like Sen. Shiyonga was saying. It is until you are stopped like Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve and Sen. (Dr.) Milgo were stopped from voting that you realize that the 16 nominated women Senators are doing very little. They are at ... view
• 11 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I support the Motion in the amended format. I support because I think this COVID-19 pandemic seems to be going up instead of going down. We had reached a situation where we thought things were coming down. However, as we are talking, the number of infected persons is increasing in the country. We cannot be safe as a Senate because we interact with our constituents. We interact with other members of the public. I do support that we take one day in a week so that we reduce the number of days that we are ... view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to join my colleagues, first of all, in congratulating ourselves for taking the walk to the High Court. Some of us had never walked across Uhuru Highway, but we did because of your leadership. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 3 Nov 2020 in Senate: I also congratulate the team that led to this very successful judgement. I thank Sen. Orengo, who was the leader of the team, Sen. Omogeni, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., and all those who contributed in one way or the other, because this is a landmark ruling. This is not just for the Senate; it is for the country. It is putting things right so that there is order in the nation. When Article 110 (3) was articulated, it was not meant to undermine anybody, or to create competition between one Speaker and the other. It was supposed to put order ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Senator. Sen. Shiyonga, kindly proceed. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to express my appreciation to the wonderful Committee that has done a great job over these few months, that is, the Ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya. I congratulate the Committee for a job well done. This is a Committee that has highlighted a number of issues, making the COVID-19 situation an opportunity for us to analyze the state of the health sector in this country. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I appreciate them because within the short time, they have visited counties, talked to governors, the County Executive Committee (CEC) members and looked at the facilities. Until you visit our counties, you do not know what you have. This morning I received a call from a resident of Uasin Gishu, who was talking in one of the radio channels and asking whether it was true that the County Government of Uasin Gishu does not have an Intensive Care Unit (ICU) facility, which is true. This is something that all of us must start looking at. What ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: I want to thank this Committee because they are able to expose the state of our facilities. Health is a devolved function and it should confirm why some of us were fighting for more resources for our counties. This is a devolved function, but we do not have the devolved facilities. Those of us with extremely vulnerable population have had a rough time, let alone this time we are talking about COVID-19. The issue that the Committee has brought out is important as far as the availability of facilities in terms of ventilators and basic oxygenation equipment are concerned. These ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: According to our Constitution, health is a right. If we cannot afford health, then there is very little that we can afford. As we wait for their report, I am hopeful that they will hand over the various sectors to various Committees. I want to thank the Committee on Health because they managed to visit Uasin Gishu twice on the same issue of Level IV and V hospitals. When they came to Uasin Gishu for the Senate Mashinani sittings, they were able to raise some of those issues. This Committee has gone further to expose more issues that we need ... view