26 Feb 2019 in Senate:
are not meeting their needs or they are not providing as it is required of them as men. Therefore, they seek the easier way out which is suicide. If you provided the bare minimum provided by the Government, both at the county and at the national level, people will have reason to struggle and reason for hope. This Bill also provides a framework that includes a monitoring and evaluation policy. This is very important so that people do not take issues for granted, because they are not answerable to anyone. There is a monitoring and evaluation policy within this Bill ...
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support your communication and to extend a welcome to Mr. Thomas Toedtling and Ms. Jane Murutu from Konrad Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) that has been instrumental in helping us strengthen devolution by offering technical support. As you were walking in, you were provided a book titled ‘Devolution in Kenya’ which we launched last month. It is authored by Mr. Thomas Toedtling and others, and it is for us to refer to. They have also prepared various policies which we have shared in this House to help guide legislation as well as the movement of devolution ...
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate, today Wednesday, 20th February, 2019- Report of the Parliament of Kenya Delegation to the 49th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) Africa Region Conference held in Gaborone, Botswana, 13th – 22nd August, 2018.
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, this House note the Report of the Parliament of Kenya delegation to the 49th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA) African Region, a Conference held in Gaborone, Botswana from 13th to 22nd August, 2018 laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 20th February, 2019.
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to move- THAT, the Motion be amended by deleting the full stop at the end thereof, and inserting the following words “subject to the following amendments to the Report” – (a) By inserting the words – “and the inter-ministerial Committee on food security” immediately after the words Cabinet Secretary, the National Treasury and Planning and the Cabinet Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Arid Lands, appearing in paragraph three on page 11 of the Report. (b) By inserting the words – “and the inter-ministerial Committee on food security” immediately after the words “Cabinet Secretary National ...
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I have found it necessary to move these amendments because in our previous Report, we had---
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20 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for that guidance. This amendment was necessary to expand the scope of culpability on the maize crisis that we experienced last year. We had the Inter-ministerial Committee that must be included and the entities to be culpable, for example, the Head of Public Service Commission (PSC), who was chairing the Committee, The Ministry of Devolution and ASALs, The Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender Affairs and The Ministry of Internal Security and Coordination of National Government under special programmes. Madam Temporary Speaker, this Committee gazetted the haphazard extension of importation of maize. It allowed ...
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19 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I apologise for the delay. I wish to give a notice of Motion on the Report of the Parliament of Kenya Delegation to the 49th Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), Africa Region Conference.
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19 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am also privileged to be a part of this Committee. I was at the meeting that looked at the amendments. We agreed with the amendments, but not to delete the CS, the National Treasury and Planning. We also agreed to include the Inter-Ministerial Committee. We are including, but not deleting. We are expanding the culpability not deleting any of those recommendations. If the Chairperson, Sen. (Prof.) Kamar, calls for deleting some of the recommendations in this Report, that is where the issue is. Secondly, are we arguing whether the amendments are okay or not. ...
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19 Feb 2019 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise on a point of order in agreement with Sen. Madzayo that we had canvased this Bill in the Senate. It starts with the word “county’. Therefore, it should have originated from this Senate. We would like the Chairman of the Committee to tell us why we had to drop our Bill to support the one from the National Assembly.
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