12 Feb 2025 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I would also wish to emphasize a few matters raised by Sen. Sifuna, the Senator for Nairobi City County, particularly in regards to the Community Health Promoters (CHPs). Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the last session, you directed a small delegation to go into mediation with the National Assembly over the County Governments Additional Allocation Bill. I was privileged to be part of the delegation and I believe the leader of our delegation, Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, ought to bring a report back to this House because mediation collapsed. The talks collapsed because the National Assembly is ...
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12 Feb 2025 in Senate:
full amount directly to them. That is killing devolution because these are employees and agents of county governments. They cannot be converted to be agents of the national Government. We need to deal with this as a matter of urgency. I have seen a Notice of Motion in the Order Paper that we will dissolve committees. This House must also register its compliments to Sen. Mandago for the robust manner in which he has handled the Committee on Health as the Chair. He has brought visibility to the Senate because of the activities of that committee. I urge the gentlemen ...
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11 Feb 2025 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I have sat here with patience as I have been in this House for 10 years and yet today, I am the last to speak, even though I was in the House from 2.30 p.m. Speakers need to put in some algorithm because those of us who have been around can sometimes benefit the House out of our experience. I did not sit here to score political points or to speak politics. I took time to encourage the SBC, the Motion which I support and the Members that have been proposed. We were in Naivasha just last ...
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11 Feb 2025 in Senate:
The second thing we resolved which SBC should consider and we agreed that a Motion was to come to this House was giving effect to Article 249(3) which requires Parliament collectively, the Senate and the National Assembly, to be involved in the provision of adequate budgets to independent offices and constitutional commissions. This does not need a constitutional amendment, it does not need an advisory opinion and it does not need interpretation by the courts of law. What we need to do because the national Treasury and the entities that bring budgets to Parliament have chosen to take them to ...
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11 Feb 2025 in Senate:
Minority Leaders in the National Assembly are given greater prominence than the Leaders of the Senate. I would like to congratulate Sen. Aaron Cheruiyot for at least managing to make his presence felt but otherwise, if you are dealing with people who are just reading the Constitution the way it is, the letter and not the spirit, even the Leader of the Majority or Minority of the Senate will not be given space or considered when it comes to matters of protocol. If we believe in bicameralism, this House must stand, must protect and defend its interests. I know that ...
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11 Feb 2025 in Senate:
other animals had tails. He looked at the cow; the cow had a tail. He looked at the cat; the cat had a tail. He looked at the other animals, they all had tails. So, the monkey demanded, “Almighty God, please give me a tail.” So, the story has it that the monkey was given a tail but was given the longest tail of all of them. We might want to be the majority, but I will sympathise with Sen. Madzayo if he will be the Senate Majority Leader who will be coming here to explain the Social Health Authority ...
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5 Dec 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, 5th December, 2024- Reports of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee on consideration of the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of the following county executives: Kitui, Bungoma, Embu, Baringo, Nyandarua, Garissa, Laikipia, for the financial ears 2019/2020; and Kirinyaga, Kilifi, Kericho, for the financial years 2020/2021, Volume 5. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also beg to lay reports of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee on the consideration of the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of ...
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5 Dec 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the reports of the Senate County Public Accounts Committee on consideration of reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of the following county executives- Kitui, Bungoma, Embu, Baringo, Nyandarua, Garissa, Laikipia financial year 2019/2020, and Kirinyaga, Kilifi, Kericho, financial year 2020/2021, Vol.5, laid on the table of Senate today, Thursday, 5th September, 2024.
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5 Dec 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I second.
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4 Dec 2024 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this excellent Motion. It is all about the disbandment of NG-CDF. It is not an affront to the NGAAF 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 and AudioServices, Senate.
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