Hon Samson Ndindi Nyoro

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Something else that has been in my mind is the way we treat our funds: the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) and the mutual fund, the NSSF. It is far from proportional when it comes to contributions. There is no way a hustler out there or a hawker, for example, a matatu driver pays Ksh500 and you find other people with higher income capacities paying slightly the same or slightly higher. It is also not a good example that even in this House commensurate to our salaries, we do not seem to pay the rightful amount we should be paying ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I also suggest that we and civil servants should not be insured with other private entities. We should all trust NHIF so that we lead by example, and the fact that it is domiciled with the Government, it is capable and able to come in when we need an input in terms of health. Therefore, we should have a law in this country that directs all public servants to only be insured by the public fund, the NHIF. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: There is something else we must borrow from other economies. When we talk about NHIF and mutual funds like the NSSF, such funds in a country like Japan have borrowed in excess of 200 per cent, whereas our country has borrowed in excess of 100 per cent to our GDP. We keep giving examples of countries and economies like Japan but what we fail to tell Kenyans and explain to them is that most of the debts that big economies have, are indebted to their own funds. A country like Japan has borrowed more than Kenya in terms of the ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: of the diseases ravaging and bedevilling our people. The NHIF should take a leading role in funding innovations that are in the health sector because, at the end of the day, the innovations help them especially through the many bills that they pay. When they have a solution, it is much better to establish preventive solutions. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: I stand here as a Member of Parliament especially having been elected using our former party, Jubilee which made promises to Kenyans. The President himself promised the Big Four Agenda. In the Big Four Agenda, he told Kenyans about the Universal Health Care. I am just from Kiharu. That is a mirage. It collapsed immediately after he launched it. Something else, and I am voicing many of the issues that we get from the people we represent, is that this regime took details of the aged of the country: those above 70 years and put them on cash transfer. From ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: As I wind up, it is not just the Universal Health Care that collapsed. Whatever the President promised alongside it like manufacturing is moribund. On food security, we see Cabinet Secretary, Munya going round in the country in barazas after we passed laws in this country but the money is yet to reach the pockets of our farmers. I say all these things because they are intertwined because when one has money in his pocket, he can cater for his health needs. Unfortunately, following the collapse of this economy being administered by this regime, our people are poorer, especially farmers. ... view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Lastly, we have been seeing the Cabinet Secretary for Health giving us some statistics every evening. I want him to know that those statistics are about the people of Kenya who have been ravaged by the Coronavirus. Alongside the statistics he gives us, he ought to start giving us the statistics of Kenyans who are getting vaccinated every day. view
• 10 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was winding up with this point: at such a time when we are faced with a pandemic, every serious government and the leadership of that government should be engaged on how it can vaccinate as many people as possible. In the United States of America (USA), we saw people who were getting vaccinated actually being gifted US$100. Unfortunately, in our country instead of the leadership concentrating on availing resources and importing technology and vaccines, they spend all the time they have planning for succession. Kenyans are angry. The leadership of this country should wake up ... view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise on a slightly different matter. As you know, I have just come back to Kenya from Kampala, Uganda. On our way to Uganda yesterday, we were met with very unprofessional officials from the Immigration Department who humiliated our Deputy President and purported to deny us, Members of this House, some kind of clearance. Upon inquiry from this House… view
• 3 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this House, we have the privilege of raising such issues of national importance. As a country, I do not think that we should just watch overzealous Government officials humiliating a person of the stature of the Deputy President of this nation. However, more importantly, I was travelling to Kampala, Uganda for private matters. I was told, ostensibly, that I needed some clearance from some officials which is against the law and all regulations. view