12 May 2022 in Senate:
The issue of lack of role models should not apply to the girls from Maliku. In this House, you have Beth Mugo as a role model. In your county, you have your governor as your role model. You have many female role models who have transcended and gone beyond the glass ceiling that is usually set for girls.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
When it comes to Science and Technology, I encourage you that you can come to this House not as a lawyer or because you studied some other disciplines that are related to law making. You can come in as engineers. We have doctors like the Senator for Wajir, who has demonstrated his knowledge of history. He is a medical doctor in this House.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
We have young people like Sen. Cheruiyot who is an accomplished person within the digital and information technology space. Let me finalize by saying that in the Public Gallery, we also have the principal of a school in my county called Father Tillen Secondary School. Principal Martin Opere has also come to see how the Senate works. I know it is your duty to recognize visitors. I want to encourage the principal, who is representing the Kenya Secondary Schools Heads Association (KESSHA) and is their leader in Homa Bay County, to go back and congratulate his fellow teachers for doing ...
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
Homa Bay faces peculiar challenges when it comes to the dropout rate of the girlchild. However, Father Tillen Secondary School is one of the schools we established in Mbita Town to ensure more girls are able to attend school despite the other difficulties they face on a day to day basis arising from the fish trade and other pressures of Mbita Town.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
I want to encourage Sen. Mugo. In the Book of Luke, when Jesus healed 10 people, only one came back to say thank you. Sen. Mugo, I am touched that you have taken your time to come back and thank the Senate for standing with you.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
At the end of the day, we must reflect on the words of Leo Tolstoy who asked, “how much land does one need?” At the end of the day, when our work on earth is done, just as we saw Mwai Kibaki and Amb. Nicholas Mugo buried in a solemn manner, what matters is how we have touched the lives we have left behind. It does not matter how much you have accumulated or acquired.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
I appeal to those with an insatiable greed for public resources that at the end of the day, the amount of land we need is six feet wide and six feet deep. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am a devout Christian. I fellowship in the Seventh Day Adventist (SDA) Church. However, when I am in this House, I am guided by the Constitution.
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12 May 2022 in Senate:
Article 8 of our Constitution states that-
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