Moses Otieno Kajwang'

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• 11 May 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: At the end of five years, you are asked the road you have helped build and the school you have built. Those are some of the reasons many politicians and those in state offices, would want to apply public resources in an ethnically inequitable manner. But as I said, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC) without the support of the Presidency, whose job is to ensure national unity, will not achieve much. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: As I conclude, the Bill also criminalizes discrimination in property ownership, management and disposal. I was told that in certain towns in this country, if you have a building or a mall that is owned by a member of a particular community, tenants from that community are given huge discounts and are not required to pay goodwill, whereas tenants from other communities are expected to pay the full amount. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: It is difficult to come up with laws to deal with willing seller, willing buyer relationships. It will be very difficult to catch someone in that situation. You can have a policy that no one should be discriminated against, but if I decided to sell my land to Mr. X rather than Mr. Y, and Mr. X comes from my community and Mr. Y from another community, it will be very difficult to convince people that I did it because of ethnic reasons. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: On the basis of race, I am always conscious about reverse racism. ‘Black Lives Matter’ is a big issue that has triggered and consolidated global solidarity for us to look at racism straight in the face. Sometimes when we talk of racism, we fall into the trap of reverse racism. We become more bitter than the aggressor. We become more aggressive than the aggressor to the extent that we end up losing it. We need to be careful about that. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: One final observation in this Bill is on the headquarters. Sen. Pareno says the headquarters shall be in Nairobi. We need to change this. If you look at the hotspots and the statistics from the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), it is spending more time in places like northern Kenya, Turkana and West Pokot. Why should the headquarters be in Nairobi? Why not Isiolo? Nairobi is a continuation of the thinking of Sessional Paper No.10 that Sen. Farhiya has argued passionately against in the past. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: If we put it in black and white, where the headquarters shall be, then that becomes restrictive. How I wish we could be sending more of this state agencies to places like Isiolo, which are at the center of the country. On penalties, Sen. Pareno, has proposed stiffer penalties on web administrators; fines up to Kshs1 million or five years’ imprisonment. On general offences under the Act, she has proposed a fine of Kshs200,000 or imprisonment for one year. May be I did not read the details properly, but there needs to be some consistency in terms of offences under ... view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: I support the thoughts around national cohesion and unity, but I think that there is need for a general rethink. If we get a good President who is committed to national unity and faithful to Articles 131 and 132, then we will not need another body called NCIC. We will also not need another initiative called Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) because the President shall know that it is part of his job description to unite the country and leave behind a united and prosperous country. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: With those many remarks, I support. view
• 11 May 2022 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the County E-Health Bill (Senate Bills No. 39 of 2021). I also laud the industry of the Members who have sat in this House patiently to ensure that this Bill is processed. I appreciate the hon. Speaker for his industry and the manner in which he has guided us for the many days. It is difficult to concentrate in this House with the campaigns going on out there. The nation should know that we have a Speaker who puts the interests of the Senate first ahead of his own personal interests. I will ... view