Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

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• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you mentioned that somebody was arrested for not wearing a mask while eating. I have a case in Makueni where somebody was arrested while herding cattle without a mask. Those are the sort of difficulties we have. People have paid fines for not wearing masks. We have also not defined what a proper mask is. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: In this Senate, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have evidence that we have various forms of masks, like the one worn by Sen. Kwamboka, Sen. Pareno and I. Everybody is wearing any sort of mask. It is even worse out there in the villages. People are wearing all sorts of things and they are fined for not wearing masks. The masks are not cheap, but nobody bothered to regulate that. The other day, I saw a supermarket selling masks at Kshs650. For masks that some of us are wearing, we bought them at Kshs4,500. The Government should regulate the prices. ... view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: problems of Article 114 on a money Bill. If they agree, I propose that they make reference to the creation of a fund--- view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Members of the Committee. They should make reference of a fund under the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act and the Constitution without necessarily making prescriptive declarations or proposals in this Bill. The reason is as follows: We already have a COVID-19 Fund that is not under the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) or the National Disaster Management Unit (NDMU). It is a Fund where the Government has created regulation for managing it. Therefore, before we get a ruling from the High Court as to what constitutes a money Bill, we can find an avenue for this Bill to get consensus ... view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank Sen. Sakaja. We rarely appreciate our colleagues sometimes when they do extraordinary things. I am aware that he attempted in some form to get a committee of the National Assembly running, which will be a mirror committee of the Senate, in which case, it will be easy to have this Bill agreed in a committee before it gets to the Floor. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: It is unfortunate that as we have a national pandemic, as leaders of this country, we still cannot sit down to agree on things that are common to all of us. COVID-19 pandemic has come to reveal the nature and feebleness of the leadership since Independence. The Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds are less than 200 in the whole country, but one bed costs Kshs500,000. Ventilators are not available. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: In this Bill, the Committee has proposed how to manage a pandemic. As you are aware, since you have lectured Law classes, the Public Health Act is a 1930 Act. So, some of the references included in the regulations that have been published by various Cabinet Secretaries refer to things that are old and archaic. It is unbelievable that we have not changed this law many years after Independence. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: One of the proposals is fumigation where there is COVID-19 case in a certain estate or house. It is an anathema to suggest that Kenyans should fumigate their homes because that is the work of the Government. I have seen governors, including the Governor of Kirinyaga, fumigating their cities. It should not be the work of ordinary Kenyans to do fumigation. An example is the plight of those people who were flown from China recently. These are some of things we are talking about. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: There were issues about management of resources, and I hope Sen. Sakaja and Members of his Committee will help us on that. It is a contradiction to set up a Committee on COVID-19 under the Cabinet Secretary in charge of Health, but the funding is being run by somebody else. That is an avenue for corruption and pilferage of resources, hence the sort of problems we have about the management of the Fund. view
• 12 May 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Kenyans are suffering at home and have problems. People have been retrenched while others have taken salary cuts. Now that we have a new Senate Majority Leader in the name of Sen. Samuel Poghisio, could he please use his skills? I know that he is the Chairperson of the Christian Parliamentary Caucus. Could he use his persuasion to find an entry point for some of the things we are doing for 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, ... view