Prof. Margaret Kamar

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my village in Uasin Gishu County, where a young man arrived with a Prado from Nairobi. Everybody was asking themselves how he acquired the Prado. They really wanted to know. Of course, they did not know who to ask except to ask the same owner of the Prado on how he acquired the Prado. However, much he explained that he truthfully won a tender in Nairobi City County, nobody believed him. We know that money has been devolved. There are also very genuine cases of people who have made money. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, sorry, I was stepping on the wrong foot. Let me proceed on other matters. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: I would like to mention that there is a class of Kenyans that make their money within a short time. Such people include lawyers and consultants who speak for a few hours and make a lot of money. It is very easy to look at such a person and conclude that they have stolen money in the same way we looked at the young man who came to Uasin Gishu County from Nairobi driving a Prado and said that he is a consultant. We look at such individuals very suspiciously and wonder how they have made their riches. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we have a structured way conducting lifestyle audit as is indicated in this Bill, it is meant to defuse such kind of suspicion and enable us as a country to conduct ourselves in a decent manner, respect one another, have confidentiality and know that as much as we are fighting corruption, there are people who can make genuine money within a very short time, but they should be in a position to declare. If we are object in conducting the lifestyle audit and set standards that will apply to the young as well as the ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: I thank Sen. Farhiya for bringing this Bill. We need a structured way of expressing ourselves in a situation where we think money is being misused by corrupt individuals. The same bodies that will do the investigation will have the right to decide when an audit is necessary or not. That way, people like the young man that came from Nairobi County to Uasin Gishu can also be schemed so that honesty can be put in the process itself. It is possible that everybody will report once we have this law. Some of the reports that will be made will ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill addresses the issue of how one can report a case, the responsibility that a person reporting has as well as ensure that they have facts and information. This is a very good Bill. It is the way to go because we must be accountable, not only to ourselves, but to the country at large. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: I beg to support. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Petition and congratulate Dr. Mugo and Mr. Wanjohi. This is a very progressive Petition they have brought forward. This country is about 80 per cent arid and semi-arid, which means that arable land is only about 20 per cent of the land mass of the country. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, graduates of range management and animal production are some of the people that have been ignored for a very long time. Some of us know very well that whereas we used to have extension workers, the range managers were very few and scattered. Whatever the reason was, they were disadvantaged. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: I like the way they have petitioned that they should be allowed to treat livestock because currently, a range manager is a useful person in beef and even dairy production. Some of us have used them successfully. Without the aspect of health and treating animals, they will still go and look for somebody else to treat their animals. The production aspect is very small, because it is about feeds, which you can advise a farmer as they write down. However, the treatment of the animals is what sustains these graduates. view