Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 101 to 110 of 1925.

• 2 Dec 2021 in Senate: categories of people who must contribute to this Fund. Such monies as must be appropriated by the National Assembly for indigent and vulnerable persons. I think this message lies that maybe in the process of this Fund, there are people who were affected; who are unable to afford this Fund and cannot be able to afford to pay anything. The national level in their own capacity and motion should be able to pay monies into this Fund by the National Assembly for indigent and vulnerable groups. These vulnerable groups are the majority of the people who cannot afford any health ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to add my voice to the excellent exposition of the President’s State of the Nation Address to the Joint Parliament Session of both the Senate and the National Assembly. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: The essence of the State of the Nation Address is to put on record the kind of activities that the Executive has carried out effectively for this nation, so that the representative of the people can take note of it and critique some of the areas which they feel there have been shortfalls. I captured that the mood of the President yesterday was basically what his Government inherited in 2013 and what they put out in their manifesto in accordance with Vision 2030 which is the leading document for this nation for development and social activities. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Looking across the board, it is quite evident that we have made some strides in one way or the other, you cannot ignore the development agenda that has taken place in this country. One of the things that Kenyans dismiss very easily is that nothing has been done. For political purposes, we can easily make such dismissals. However, that does not 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
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: mean that there have not been pitfalls here and there that we need to take cognizance of. We need to articulate and understand how to go around it as well as how to achieve the stated objective. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I will start on the issue of infrastructure. The infrastructure that has taken place in terms of the expansion of the road networks in this country, the last mile electricity connectivity programme as well as the expansion of our inland ports, Lamu Port and other SGR activities that have been carried out in this nation. This may have been one of the reasons the GDP has gone up. Unfortunately, that does not translate into money in the pockets of poor people who are below the poverty line. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Whereas we may applaud the Government for having achieved those levels of attainments, we now have SGR trains that are getting cargo from the Port in Mombasa to the inland port in Nairobi and Naivasha, hence reducing the number of carnage on the roads that could have been caused by the heavy tracks plowing the road to Mombasa. I still see a number of heavy loads coming from Mombasa on the road to Nairobi. When I used the main Mombasa Road last week on my way to Makueni County for the Devolution Conference, it was quite evident that traffic is ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was hoping that one of the highlights in the road infrastructure network would have been a dual carriage-way from Mombasa to Nairobi; this will have a double effect. The economic ones that require to be put along the road network from Mombasa to Nairobi; for instance, between Mombasa and Voi, another one at Sultan Hamud and one more before you get to the Konza City that we have between Makueni and Machakos County and finally, the Athi River which has expanded extremely well. view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: The dual carriage-way must be put on the programme because it has net effect of creating economic activities thus generating employment opportunities for our young people. Unemployment is one of the biggest undoing for this country. Until such a time that we are able to get gainful employment for our people, who constitute 75 per cent of the country’s possible population, we are going to run into difficulties in managing the affairs of this nation. I, therefore, propose that whatever other activities that are left, within this period of time, when the ODM Government takes over in 2022, we should ... view
• 1 Dec 2021 in Senate: When the Rt. Hon. Raila Amollo Odinga takes over, he will expand the infrastructure terrain in this nations and therefore bring prosperity to this nation. That is one of the things that was captured in the BBI which was never actualized. I was happy that the President re-emphasized that the BBI may have been stopped for a while, but it would come back. There is no better suited person to bring back the BBI agenda other than his ‘handshake’ partner, the Rt. Hon. Former Prime Minister, Raila Amollo Odinga, who will also be the Fifth President of the Republic of ... view