6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, in your top three contributors, I wish you would also allow some of us whose counties are locked down to pass a message to our people.
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, as a Senator of one of the counties that was recently locked down, I am glad that today, through the Statement by Sen. Khaniri, we have started with the subject of COVID-19 which is killing our people. If we politicize and assign blame on this matter, we will never get to the bottom of it. The former president of the United States of America (USA), Donald Trump, tried it with China and he found himself at war. The issue before us requires concerted effort to find a solution. Allow me to talk about two issues. Mine is ...
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
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6 Jul 2021 in Senate:
tell Kenyans the extent to which this disease is ravaging Kenyans. All of us here, be it an elected or nominated Senator is added to WhatsApp group to help with the burial preparation or hospital bills of victims of the COVID-19 pandemic. The people who are dying from the disease are the elderly. Our young people who ride boda boda think that they are immune to COVID-19 pandemic. The feeling of immunity is fueled by the fiddling of numbers by the national Government. I urge the Senate Committee on Health to pressurize the national Government to give us the right ...
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also request that as the hard copies are being distributed, annexures should also be attached because they hold some very important information that will inform the debate today. On 7th November 2019, the Clerk of the County Assembly of Nakuru conveyed to the Clerk of the Senate the resolution of the County Assembly to adopt the Report of the
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Committee recommending the conferment of City status to Nakuru Municipality. Mr. Speaker, Sir, you convened a sitting on 21st November where you issued communications on the same and referred the matter to the Standing Committee on Devolution and Inter-Governmental Relations for consideration. The matter we are reporting on today came to the House on the 21st November 2019. Unfortunately, the Urban Areas and Cities Act does not have a timeline for
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
Senate’s consideration of the request by a municipality to be made a City. All the same, I do recall, you directed that the matter should have been concluded in 60 days, and therefore, our report was due on 25th February 2020. Mr. Speaker, Sir, in a bi-cameral Parliament, this is the only responsibility where the Senate is not subjected to the National Assembly. Once we make a resolution today that we do agree with the report of the Committee, that Nakuru Municipality becomes a City, you shall walk alone to State House not with the Speaker of the National Assembly ...
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
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3 Jun 2021 in Senate:
manufacturing plant, Lanet Airstrip, among other sites that are a requirement under the Urban Areas and Cities Act. At this visit, the Committee undertook to take a tour of the municipality to observe the traffic management within the municipality. The Committee also met the Nakuru County Assembly Speaker and the County Assembly Committee on Lands, Housing and Urban Development. During the consideration of the matter, the Committee held a total of seven sittings, one study visit to Nakuru and a retreat to consider and adopt its report. The Committee also considered the Report of the ad-hoc Committee that had recommended ...
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