Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 671 to 680 of 1925.

• 19 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have had an occasion previously to handle certain emergencies in this country. You will remember when we had the brucellosis and many other emergencies resulting in deaths. The Corona Virus is a very virulent and contagious virus. Depending on the severity of the virus, people succumb to death very easily without any difficulty whatsoever. That is why you have seen a lot of people being reported as having succumbed to this Corona Virus. The death rate is likely to rise because the virus mutates, and you may get a severe form which may not ... view
• 19 Feb 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
• 19 Feb 2020 in Senate: What must Kenyans do? Obviously, all points of entry must be under very strict and severe surveillance. I have not seen anything, other than the periodic check at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and possibly at the Moi International Airport, but I should see some rigorous checks even at all the entry points, whether from Uganda or Tanzania. This is because you do not know whether these people from China could have gone to Dar es Salaam and then they exit, coming to Kenya or through other routes. We must secure these routes for the safety of Kenyans. Secondly, we ... view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I do not know what we are talking about here. We are in an emergency situation. These locusts move in billions. When they land on a piece of land, they desiccate it to rubbish and clear the soil. More worrying is that the breeding habits of locusts is that in the next three to four weeks, what are now being called old locusts, will be a second generation of locusts in bigger numbers. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: What worries me now is the fact that we have just come from a drought-stricken situation and have witnessed a ravaging of our people and land through flooding. This has caused devastation and created a kind of a weather where it ideal for locusts to breed. The next phase we will see will be more vicious and critical than ever seen before. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: What are the consequences that we do not seem to absorb at this stage? One, food will be totally cleared out, both for human and animal consumption and for existence. We are facing an emergency in terms of hunger. My take on this matter is that the Government and all the institutions, including county governments, should have emergency meetings on how to deal with this scourge of locust invasion. 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
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: It is not a story anymore. It is reality because we are beginning to see it and it follows a pattern of where the weather is warm and what it does. I witnessed the locusts of 1953. As young people then, we were playing around with those locusts and by the time we realized, they had already destroyed the entire crop. That year became a very difficult year for us to even feed properly and go to school. It is, therefore, not an area that we want to keep tight and issue statements. By now, we should be seeing action ... view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as Sen. Wetangula said earlier, the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD) was specifically set up for the purposes of monitoring and controlling the desert invasion from the Middle East; the desert itself. I should have expected that during the recent Africa Union Summit this should have been one of the most important topical issues to be raised and discussed. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: I think we now need, through this organ of Parliament, to mobilize Kenyans to be abreast with the situation and deal with it as an emergency, so that everything goes in gear. We can save this nation from hunger and the clearing of our forests and food that we have planted during these generous rains. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: Than you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to what I consider as the most important amendment that has come from the National Assembly to the Senate, touching on matters of the cooperative societies or the SACCOs, as we know them today. One of the most fascinating elements is that this is operating at the grassroots level. It touches on many lives of very basic and simple people, who go about their businesses but have no financial capacity to handle their day to day activities; or, for any matter, are unable to increase any chances ... view