Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 851 to 860 of 1925.

• 30 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also ventilate my views on this issue of cancer. First of all, I want to convey my condolences to the family of the late Joyce Laboso. I had the singular honour of being very close to her late parents, Mzee Laboso and Mama Sarah. We used to be together and have meals together and I saw them grow up. It was a rude shock yesterday to hear about her untimely death because of cancer. Equally, I want to pass my condolences to the family of the late hon. ... view
• 30 Jul 2019 in Senate: uncontrollable manner, therefore, causing disease and, obviously, the kind of death that we are seeing here today. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are agents that trigger these mechanisms. I want to mention just one or two things. They could be chemicals or some of these pollutants that we see around us. There are so many chemicals that are now coming into the market, particularly in the agricultural sector, in our own houses, in fumigation and in meat preservatives. Particularly what we heard the other day, the metabisulphites, which are full if nitrites. These are positive causative agents of cancer. We ... view
• 30 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we should now look at the environment. What are we doing about it? Look at the pollution level in this country and we are complaining about the causes of cancer. The pollution level is a result of so many chemical fumigations that are going on in the dumping sites and garbage that is fermenting all over the place and emitting gases that are not good for us to breathe. We should, therefore, look at the environment we live in, our home surroundings, cities and towns. How do we approve the plans? The congestion that we see ... view
• 30 Jul 2019 in Senate: We also have occupational problems. We have issues such as chemicals, for those who are working in chemical industries and hospitals. They are potentially exposed to radioactive substances. Those who are working in asbestos firms are potentially exposed to those substances. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to come to lifestyle. I think I heard Sen. Murkomen asking about the advice we could get. Our lifestyle has got to change dramatically. The consumption of sugar in this country is a potentially dangerous element towards the onset of cancer. I think we must accept it. It is a delicacy; we eat ... view
• 30 Jul 2019 in Senate: between 92 and 94 per cent. That is why when you see us walking here, we are panting for air because the air is potentially polluted, and we must accept that. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in China, for instance, when you go to Peking and other cities you see a lot of smoke in the air. Those are pollutants. That is why the element of cancer is fairly high in those places, but they have known how to manage these cases. Once cancer sets in, its rate of growth is so rapid that one extends from stage one to stage ... view
• 23 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion by Sen. Mwaura. I can safely say that I had a lot of connection and interaction with the late hon. Kenneth Njindo Matiba during the early years of Independence, when some of us were struggling at the university. When I flew back to Nairobi in 1960, in an inaugural flight from India where I did Medicine, the person I found as the Education Officer at Gill House, on Tom Mboya Street, was none other than Kenneth Njindo Matiba. At that time, we were still ... view
• 23 Jul 2019 in Senate: This is one man that I can say has pervaded history in the social, political and economic strata. That was my first encounter with Hon. Matiba. The second encounter was when I came back and joined the social, political and economic life of this country. Hon. Kenneth Matiba was so deeply involved in the administration of football in this country to an extent that when he was the chairman of the Kenya Football Federation (KFF), I was also the vice chairman, and later on took over the chairmanship of the Kenya Athletics Association (KAA). The two of us put Kenya ... view
• 23 Jul 2019 in Senate: background, they all seem to have gone to British American Tobacco (BAT), East Africa Breweries Limited (EABL) and performed very well for this nation. It was refreshing to see the energy that was being put into the establishment of the technical training institutes as a forerunner for technology in this country. When you see technology having taken this leap, it is not because it came out of its own motion. It was because there were people who were interested in education and ensuring that education took a deep ground. Madam Temporary Speaker, I remember the airlift, by the late hon. ... view
• 18 Jul 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The issue of electricity tokens has reached a level where we feel that the haves are stealing from the very poor people. The Last Mile Connectivity Project was meant to bring joy and pleasantness to the homes of people, so that our learners could study in a very congenial environment. Unfortunately, the designers of these tokens did not foresee a situation where we are now seeing people stealing those tokens and not providing the necessary electrical power or light, because it was meant for the poor families. Already, the ones who are on heavy tariffs ... view
• 18 Jul 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I tried to set up a small industry within my farm, and the electricity bill was going to Kshs200,000. However, when one looked at the units we were using, they were nowhere near the kind of figures we were receiving. If I did not relentlessly pursue that matter, I would have been in a fix. Eventually, the bill came down from Kshs200,000 to Kshs46,000. How much more pain would that be for an ordinary Kenyan citizen, who wants lighting in the house so that children can do their homework in the evening? That is a form of ... view