Petronila Were Lokorio

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I also rise to make a contribution on the State of the Nation Address by the President, which he presented yesterday. We welcome this Address because it is an obligation of the President as is stipulated in the Constitution. However, I noted that the Address did not have any member of the public in the Public Gallery, which I thought despite the COVID-19 restrictions, they would have also practised social distancing and allowed members of the public to be a part of this important exercise. That said, the President started by talking about the unity ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: His Address focused mostly on how we responded to the pandemics. One was the swarm of locusts and the other one was COVID-19. He focused mainly on our response to COVID-19, which bedevilled the whole world. He talked about how we should have seen or how we saw opportunity in this crisis rather than see the problems. He said that because of our proper response to this crisis of COVID-19, it had 14 times lesser impact on the economy compared to the rest of the world. So, our economic stimulus interventions helped us deal in a better way than the ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: We should not lose the fact that devolution is working and where it is working we should always strive to praise our leaders. It is important to note that the Governor of Kitui is a woman and we know that once we have women leaders, we will continue to have such great innovations. In times of crisis women always perform better even at the family level. We want to congratulate Kitui Governor, Hon. Charity Ngilu, for being part of this success story; seeing an opportunity in a crisis. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: The President also talked about the status of the first icon that he needed to talk about in his Address. As stipulated in the Constitution, it was the state of our economic development. He said that in spite of COVID-19 in 2020 we had a 0.3 per cent economic growth, which has gone up to 10.01 per cent in the first quarter of 2021 using the real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I have an issue with this so-called rate of economic development being at 10.1 per cent in the first quarter when Kenyans are suffering. Whose economic development are we talking about? If majority of Kenyans do not have money in their pockets, what the African National Congress (ANC) party calls “ PesaMfukoni” then you cannot talk about economic development. It cannot be if it is only for the few or the 10 billionaires in the country when the other millions in the country are not feeling it. We need to investigate what economic development means for the ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Kenyan not just the billionaires of this country. We want to also feel that there is economic development for everybody and “ pesa mfukoni” for all Kenyans. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: The President also talked about the revival of the agricultural sector. He said they injected some money in the tea and coffee sector and that there are good bonuses. When he said there was smoke in the sugar mills, I almost stood up in shock. If there is no smoke in Mumias Sugar, the biggest sugar company, which sugar mill is the President was talking about? We still insist that we need more attention given to sugar factories especially in the Western Region. We want to see them up and some seriousness put into this. We are hoping that the ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: The off take programmes for the livestock sector are welcome. We have seen the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) coming up. Farmers are being paid their monies within three days rather than the years that they were waiting for. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Our young people, especially those who had been listed on the CRB limiting their access to loans, have been delisted as the President told us. We are grateful and hope that the very many Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) that are listed in the CRB will also be looked into; not just because of COVID-19, but moving forward. This is because some of these people were put on the CRB list when everybody was affected economically. We also know that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) met its target. We have been told this before. The President emphasized that they are ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, the President also informed us that COVID-19 showed the need to invest more in the Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector, which is a welcome idea. This sitting is hybrid. We have both the physical and virtual meeting, so that Members who are not able to attend physically, are able to participate virtually. That begs the question of the Konza Technopolis. The President did not touch on it seeing that he told us that ICT is the future. We want a law put in place to guide the Konza Technopolis. I know that there is a Bill ... view