Prof. Samuel Poghisio

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me also join colleagues in supporting this Motion for Adjournment in the sense that Nairobi is being transformed. What happened yesterday should not be condemned. This is because desperate situations sometimes require desperate moves. For example, the streets in Nairobi have been taken over by boda bodas which crisscross the roads and one cannot drive comfortably anymore. The services have almost collapsed. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we had reached a point where we would have to find a way to sort out Nairobi. The Constitution supports it and by extension the Senate was ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think short of calling them frivolous, regarding some of these petitions that come, any person can petition Parliament and they have tried to. However, this particular one, you may not even know where to send it after it has been approved. At Independence, when our Flag and National Anthem were approved; each item on the flag, every color and every symbol was explained enough at that time and reasons were given why it was found necessary to have them. Therefore, I think that we should go slow on trying to change ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, let me congratulate Sen. Loitiptip for what I thought was a maiden speech. view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: When he read the Petition, we sounded like we can all become petitioners from where we speak about our counties. I want to congratulate him for bringing this issue which is very important for all of us. If I speak for my county, you would think I am speaking for Lamu County. The script is the same. Sometimes I wonder whether our county chiefs have a school where they all go about mismanaging the health sector. It looks like they go to the same institution and come up with almost the same ways of running the hospitals. Mr. Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 18 Feb 2020 in Senate: actually go round in a very short time. The distances travelled for Lamu County are shorter than the distances travelled in West Pokot County. In the case of Lamu county, it is true. I appeal to the Chairperson of the Committee of Health to take this matter quite seriously because you do it for Lamu County knowing for sure that you are applying whatever comes out to all our 47 counties. It is important that you take this matter of Lamu County as a sample for the rest of us. Otherwise, I congratulate Sen. Loitiptip and say keep up that ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. From the onset, let me congratulate the team led by the Senator for Wajir County and others who participated in this conference that dealt with climate change. I do not wish to dwell in the many technicalities of the Kyoto Protocol or even the Vienna Convention and the others. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: I will just come to the reality in the country; our own understanding of what happened in West Pokot. You can imagine, it is like this building we are in, finding itself in Eastleigh Estate. That is what happened. The entire ground moves with you, and then turns over and becomes mud, then everything just becomes loose. When the water has super saturated the land and finds any cracks within the bedrock, that is what causes a landslide. Therefore, we still have people who are buried in the mud and they are yet to be found. These are people who ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, Kenyans had not taken it seriously. I, therefore, support the Members of Parliament (MPs) who discussed it, even when I was not here. I also thank Sen. (Prof.) Kamar for the gesture and for expressing, on behalf of many, the condolences to the people of West Pokot. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in Senate: It happened in more than one place, just to show us that climate change is real. The effects of greenhouse gases are real. You can tell that places like West Pokot, which hitherto were not very rainy, have been so rainy that there is rain every day. In areas that are usually very dry, they continue to have rain up to today. Things have changed; times and seasons have changed. That is the practical aspect of understanding what climate change is. Therefore, when Kenya participates in these conferences, we are a very small country, but our contribution should be to ... view