28 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I assure the House that our Committee has already convened a workshop to get to the gist of CBC, which shall be conducted next week. We shall be seized of these two Statements, and in the next two weeks, come up with answers.
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23 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I beg to lay the following reports on Petitions by the Standing Committee on Education on the Table of the Senate today, 23rd September,2021: (1) Report on Petition in the Senate by Mr. Elkana Kitur concerning Delayed Payments to Suppliers of Commodities to Public Secondly Schools During the First Terms of the Academic Year 2020. (2) Report on the consideration of the Petition to the Senate by residents and teachers serving in Kajiado county no promotion of teachers in the county to leadership positions.
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23 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this Censure Motion. I thank the Senate Minority Leader, Sen. Orengo for bringing it. This is a matter of great concern because it touches on power and fuel which affects three-quarter of the populous in the country. This is a challenge which comes on the hills of Covid-19 which has destroyed livelihoods and broken the chains of business. People are unable to meet their basic needs. Fuel and power are commodities that touch each and every area of the livelihoods of our people. They affect activities such ...
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23 Sep 2021 in Senate:
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support the Statement by Sen. (Dr.) Lelegwe. This is a very serious matter that should be addressed as a matter of urgency. Recently, the President of the Republic of Kenya declared drought as a national disaster. Our worry was in the pastoral areas, where shortage of water and pasture was going to kill livestock.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
It is unfortunate to hear that security officers are killing cows instead of protecting people. That is destroying the livelihood of those pastoralists. We have had pastoralist regions such as the North Rift, Kerio Valley, Baringo and others suffering from these conflicts. This has gone on year in, year out. We are speaking to it today and if no strategy is undertaken, we shall be speaking about it until it is put to rest.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
For the last several years, we have heard about these conflicts taking place and nobody ever solves the problem. It escalates when we near the elections period. We do not know whether people are using this to settle scores with their opponents or just by sheer chance.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
I think the National Land Commission (NLC) is also to blame because when we have chunks and chunks of land--- I heard the Senator of Turkana saying that, normally, the pastoralists find that there are people who have fenced off large chunks of land, which have a lot of pasture. For that matter, cows cannot be allowed to die when somebody is leaving idle land where there is pasture. I heard about the 15,000 acres as being an ADC farm.
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16 Sep 2021 in Senate:
I think instead of wasting a lot of money in Galana-Kulalu Irrigation Scheme, which has never produced any food since inception, those areas should grow pasture for pastoralists. We could now be distributing the grass. In addition, we should have the National Drought Management Authority going out to drill water for these pastoralists, so that we do not have that conflict as a result of looking for pasture and water.
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