Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1081 to 1090 of 1925.

• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: This meeting is not like a local meeting where you just walk in. In this one, you walk in knowing fully aware that the international community is going to watch your steps and what is going to come out by way of decisions and directions from your desk. She will need a lot of people around her, and I am sure that she has already started surrounding herself with advisors from the Secretariat. This is to ensure that the kinds of materials they will give her are the ones that will propel her to do the right thing. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: Once again, Madam Temporary Speaker, Kenya has put a stamp that our women can compete and be elected in international platforms. I wish that would also be extended to the local platform, so that we can do away with these nominations. I wish that our women can be properly elected by Kenyans so that we do not have to struggle with gender parity any more, like it is elsewhere. However, for now, it is a provision in our Constitution which we must uphold, because if that was not done, we would not have such great minds that we have today ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: I am not, in any way, negating the decision of affirmative action on the nomination of women. I am just drawing a parallel that if Kenyans were to wake up and also elect women to these elective positions in our National Assembly, the Senate and 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
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: county assemblies, it will enhance our democracy. It will also give us an opportunity to express ourselves as a Kenyan people and not as a group which is male dominated. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, at the expense of ostracizing myself in the male community, I thank and congratulate you. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to a subject that is very close to my heart. As you all remember, I was the ambassador for the United Nations (UN) Habitat. This is one of the areas that I delved into, of ensuring that we have an internationally acceptable, viable and a new urban agenda. If I may take you down memory lane, Madam Temporary Speaker, Goal 11 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) speaks about sustainable cities and communities. I congratulate Sen. Olekina for speaking to this Goal, which speaks about making our towns ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is an important Bill that should not be seen as if it is rivaling the Kenya Roads Bill, which is before this House. The latter is speaking to the standards of the roads while the former is talking about social inclusion. When we do this planning - whether you are in the formal or informal settlements - you all deserve decent, dignified and rewarding lives. It does not matter where they stay - whether in a well organised urban centre or in a disorganised informal settlement - you need decent, dignified and rewarding lives so that ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: contain the populations and the rush for the first row in buildings. In addition, you create potential for more merchants who are located in the successive rows. Madam Temporary Speaker, in New York, all the avenues have equal potential. That is the purpose of this Bill; creating urban prosperity. You will automatically find the values of all these areas being the same regardless of the row. Therefore, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the value of property of that town goes very high, thus increasing profitability of that urban centre to a much higher level, not forgetting taking into account ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, when you have this kind of growth; creating prosperity of towns by spatial planning through this Bill, you will be able to increase the on-source revenue that accrues directly to the urban center. This is because you will be able to levy taxes from those who are in those premises, parking bays, services in the markets, hotels and restaurants, hospitals and social amenities, water and food chain supply and everything else. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in Senate: What we are now seeing here and are preoccupied with as the Senate is to be able to get resources flowing from the national Government. When we went to Bali in Indonesia, we were looking at the resource flow in the provincial centers, which are equivalent to our county governments. Their on-source revenue was 50 per cent more than the national revenue which they were getting through allocation. They were able to do this because they have been able to build the prosperity of their towns and cities to a level where they are able to get on-source revenue sustain ... view