Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: This disease has taught us how helpless and how clueless humanity is. The confusion of our national Government added to the cluelessness of our county governments is a source and sense of embarrassment. The only saving grace is that when you look at stronger economies, we are seeing a similar state of cluelessness and confusion. We must thank God because the fact that you are alive today and have not died out of COVID-19, is not because we are stronger or more intelligent as an African, but by the grace of God. If you are going to lose 10,000 or ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Report of the ad hoc Committee on the COVID-19 Situation in Kenya that we established on 31st March, 2020, that we gave 13 specific terms of reference. At the time of establishment of this Committee, the whole world was coming to terms with the new virus and the pandemic with its devastating effects. You do recall that around 13th March, 2020, the country went to a lockdown because of the alarming increase in numbers, owing to the COVID-19. Seven months later, just this afternoon, the Head of State has addressed the nation ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: must scale up testing if we are going to tell the true story and paint the right picture of the COVID-19 situation in this country. Globally, 47.5 million people have been infected, the global economy is in recession and the entire world is in shock. Nobody seems to have understood what has hit us. Far greater economies are shutting down again. They shut down in March when we had the first wave, and just this week, we have had the United Kingdom shutting down again. We have had Germany, Spain and Italy shutting down. We are sure that the United ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: There are countries that put a break on imposition of interest which was done through statute, not like in our situation where you are being told to go and negotiate with your bank manager. Your bank Manager will only listen to you if in the past three, four or five years, you have been paying faithfully. Your bank manager will want to look at your loss history, the client history and will not care whether you were retrenched last week or not. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: I hope now that we are still in the throes of COVID-19 and the pandemic is still with us, this is an opportunity for us to give this nation the Pandemic Management Bill that will guide emergency interventions. We have established emergency funds in all our county governments which are established for unforeseen circumstances and a pandemic would be one of those. Unfortunately, there need to be some legislative tightening so that we can empower counties to use that emergency funds or to establish other funds with speed to respond to pandemics. We agree that a fund for management of ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: the counties to improve their health facilities. Even today you will find counties reporting that they have got 300 bed isolation units, when you investigate you will find they have counted beds lying in dormitories of secondary and primary schools that have been shut down. What a great shame. If we can try to lie with a straight face to justify or score some bonga points politically. The reality is that many of our counties do not have more than 20 ICU beds and where they have, they are taken up. It is not just the facilities but also the ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: With a shrinking GDP, a shrinking economy, and a growing population, we are going back to a developing country, yet this was one of the promises that we set out in Vision 2030 that we want to be a new industrializing middle income economy. COVID-19 has taken us back to where we did not want to be, but it is a combination of COVID-19 and bad politics. Madam Temporary Speaker, the President launched certain tax incentives that were aimed at easing the pain for people who are salaried and reducing taxes for those who are in the informal sector. However, ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: supposed to flag and revive the health sector. It should not be in the situation that we are in, that we still have less than 1,000 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds across the county. Madam Temporary Speaker, my final point is that as we look for a vaccine, where is the place of indigenous African knowledge; indigenous science and technology. Everyone is focusing on a vaccine that will come from the UK or USA, and yet Africans had a primitive way of vaccination. We had a system of self-infection to create immunity. Even before the first European vaccine was created, ... view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I support and urge the Government that even today with the renewed efforts to contain this virus a lot more work needs to be done to revive the economy. That will keep Kenya healthy and give us hope that in future, this country will still be a going concern in spite of the debts that we have incurred. view
• 4 Nov 2020 in Senate: I urge extra responsibility on our part. I know many of us are silently suffering, but it is important that we announce when we find ourselves infected so that it is not stigmatized. That is how we managed the fight against HIV/ AIDs scourge when we moved it from a matter of stigma. view