Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 511 to 520 of 1925.

• 24 Jun 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
• 24 Jun 2020 in Senate: they cannot even spend on one single item. It is wired in at the last minute and they are the cause of the pending bills that are rolled over to the next financial year. Therefore, when the National Treasury says that they must give the pending bills a first charge, they are already crippling the budgets of the counties, particularly, as they start the new financial year. This is because they go according to budgets and programmes that they have developed and were approved by the county assemblies. Therefore, they will require other supplementary estimates to factor in those other ... view
• 24 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity, first to congratulate you for taking the coveted seat of Deputy Speaker. view
• 24 Jun 2020 in Senate: I also want to congratulate the new Members of the Committees that have been set up today. I thank the House for conferring in me their trust and putting me and my colleagues in the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC). Our Committee will start working from tomorrow. We have scheduled meetings every day except from Saturdays and Sundays. We want to clear the backlog of all the reports that are pending before the House. We are not on recess, as it were, in a broader sense, but we are functioning in a different capacity other than Plenary. We ... view
• 24 Jun 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
• 24 Jun 2020 in Senate: who are at the county level that our primary responsibility is oversight and we shall do that job dutifully, conscientiously, without favor or contradiction. We should enjoy when we fellowship together for the common good of our population. view
• 23 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The issue of land is an emotive issue since Independence. The two contesting groups is the KDF and Samburu and Rendile people. For people to be able to make that kind of Petition to this House, they have sought various avenues in trying to address this issue through the National Land Commission (NLC) and other relevant authorities within that area. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you may notice, this is an area which is prone to a lot of insecurity. To add injury to this insecurity, if there is a conflict on the matters of land, ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also weigh in on a very important subject raised by my colleague, Sen. (Dr.) Ochillo-Ayacko. We all know that there are about 12 cash-crops in this country ranging from tea, flowers, wheat, cotton, maize, bananas, coffee, pyrethrum and sugarcane. When these crops do not find a convenient way of farmers being paid, there is tremendous loss in the input of farmers because these are small scale holders who have taken everything that they have from their shamba or garden or from small rural plots to the sugar factories. As ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to talk on a subject that is so close to my heart. Biodiversity is the livelihood of individuals and species in the world. These elements of biodiversity are in in the air, soil, seas and oceans. The ecosystems balance in such a wonderful way that humanity was bequeathed to conserve it for sustainable use for their livelihood. I was Kenya’s Ambassador to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). One of the conventions that I successfully negotiated was the Convention on Biological Diversity. One of the elements that stood out quite ... view
• 23 Jun 2020 in Senate: indication that the whole world was moving towards biodiversity because of its inherent wealth that was imbedded in biodiversity products. The so-called developed nations were able to patent some of the ingredients that had been derived from the biodiversity products for their own use. These medicinal products were then sold back to the third world countries at very exorbitant prices. They were out of reach for anybody to use for their own sustainable livelihoods. One of the areas that has been, unfortunately, exploited and polluted to the extent that it has been denuded by the researchers of the developed nations ... view