Petronila Were Lokorio

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Apr 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when the Committee on COVID-19 will be looking at NHIF, I urge the Committee to look at the proposed NHIF reforms in relation to COVID-19; what they need to do to cushion Kenyans. I also want to join my colleagues in saying that the Government needs to stop making quarantine a criminal issue leading to stigmatization. view
• 28 Apr 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to qualify that further and emphasize on proper cooperation and coordination between the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government and the Ministry of Health on the matter of criminalizing quarantine. That is where my differentiation comes from. We were also told about modelling numbers and how we might lose up to 30, 000 people. I urge the Government, through this Committee, to try and localize some of the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 28 Apr 2020 in Senate: recommendations by the World Health Organization (WHO) because environments around the world are different. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of Dr. Lutomia, we understand that the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the Ministry of Health could be under a lot of pressure. We would like to urge him to focus on fighting the COVID-19 and not fighting with our frontline workers. In every war, we have war profiteers. I would like the Chairperson of the Committee on COVID-19 to look at the allegations that donations brought to us by Jack Maa are being sold by unscrupulous traders in collaboration ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Alice Milgo for coming up with it. As it is well stated, the function of planning and developing cemeteries, funeral parlors and crematoria is now a function of county governments. However, there are several counties that do not have these services yet. With urbanization and many rural areas developing into towns, it is important to have cemeteries because we are running short of land to bury the dead as it was done traditionally; we used to bury people around our ... view
• 12 Mar 2020 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
• 12 Mar 2020 in Senate: the House got occupied with many graves, people would relocate from that home and move elsewhere. That home would be called likunda or makunda . It became a place for growing food. Families would move to the next piece of land. However, that piece of land is no longer available. So, we need to develop these cemeteries and encourage our people to take their departed relatives there. County governments should make sure that public cemeteries are maintained and are beautiful to look at. They should develop funeral homes and have chapels or churches within those funeral parlors. They should also ... view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. I would like to contribute to the Statement by Sen. Nyamunga on the conduct of private security guards as they go about their business. We have all experienced some security guards who harass people and sometimes even assault Kenyans. We have seen instances where Kenyans have been hospitalized because of misunderstandings between security guards and their clients. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: However, I would like to also note that most of these security guards are school drop-outs and, therefore, have not gone through the basic etiquette that people are taught in schools. I urge that the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD) or the Association of Private Security Guards in consultation with KICD develop a curriculum that various actors can use to train these security guards on matters of public relations, customer care and just simple etiquette knowing that a customer is always right. Thank you. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to the Lifestyle Audit (No. 2) Bill (Senate Bills No. 21 of 2019) ably sponsored by Sen. Farhiya. I congratulate Sen. Farhiya for bringing order in an otherwise chaotic place, disorganized and disorderly procedure of conducting lifestyle audit. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in Senate: This area as important as it is, has been done haphazardly in the past. Sen. Orengo has outlined fully throughout the Bill what areas need improvement and which areas are quite clear based on his experience and also as senior counsel. So, I will not go into that. Mine is to encourage Kenyans to embrace this lifestyle audit once this Bill has become law. This is because it is very friendly and makes it easy for people to be accountable. It has areas that make the process confidential. It gives you notice of even seven days with clearly outlined reasons ... view