23 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Would I be in order to suggest that your ruling be forwarded to the Judiciary formally, expressing our displeasure that the rulings of the Supreme Court seem to appear to not have any value with regard to the courts below them? If there is something that the Chief Justice can do, he ought to inform his officers in some form of circular or otherwise that we are not averse to the idea of respecting the Judiciary but they should wait for us in a case like this one where we have been given a jurisdiction that nobody has. An impeachment ...
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23 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did not see the Chairperson of the Select Committee looking into the impeachment of Gov. Samboja in the Chamber. I believe that for good order, precedence and record, your ruling should be attached to their report that will be tabled in the Chamber tomorrow.
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23 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my age and date of birth are not a secret. Therefore, I will not invoke the laws of rights of privacy. I thank him for wishing me well.
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23 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.
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23 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is a programme that is run by the World Bank called The Kenya Devolution Support Program (KDSP) which is capacitating county executives on financial management and reporting. It is in the same breath that we have requested that that the capacity building on financial reporting should be transposed to the county assembly. I thank you.
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Motion on community health workers because it is important. In fact, had I seen it in advance, I would have suggested to Sen. Nyamunga that we include a paragraph to say that all county governments must give some recognition to all the county community health workers. This is because part of the problem in the community health workers framework is that they are never recognised. There are 3,200 community health workers in Kisumu County alone. It is possible that in every other county, including small ones, there are more than 3,000 ...
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
.: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I quoted Sen. Faki so that I do not suffer the problem of using a Kiswahili term in my speech. That is why I quoted mkunga as said by Sen. Faki. I was just being a little clever about the word, but mkunga is a midwife. Midwives are ladies like the ones we saw in the marginalisation policy in far- flung counties like Baringo and Samburu who help women to find out the health statuses of their babies using interesting technology. The technology can show whether a baby is facing up or down or if they ...
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22 Oct 2019 in Senate:
In this case, the position is up or the head is facing down. The community health workers and midwives who have the skill of determining a baby who is in distress or a baby who has not gone to the breech as they famously call it. I think the 3,200 community health workers in Kisumu should be registered. Secondly, their location should be known so that in part of the recognition, we want to know which area, location, sub-location, ward or village does not have a community health worker. Thirdly, Mr. Speaker, Sir, these people are working voluntarily. You should ...
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