Sylvia Mueni Kasanga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, maybe I will just give a little background and brief of what the Committee has so far achieved. As you are aware, when we started there was no other Committee that was sitting. Actually, we were the first Committee to sit virtually and, therefore, discover the efficiency of virtual meetings. At that time, we were able to hold very many meetings. In a day, we would hold and meet with many stakeholders. Therefore, we were able to do quite a bit because Members were also not engaged in the other Committees. Later on, slowly by slowly, ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: We are fully aware of the fact that COVID-19 is here to stay with us. As it continues to evolve all standing Committees are now fully briefed on the issues that we have presented and tabled here and they have been adopted. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: We want to begin to wind up by handing over to the standing Committees, which is why we are requesting for this 30-day extension, to enable us receive the remaining 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 Oct 2020 in Senate: requests we have made to the various Ministries, as well as the Auditor General’s reports, as we have mentioned as we were moving the Motion. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: Six months was a short time. It was what we were given at the beginning, but I believe we were able to canvass a good amount simply because at that time everything had come to a standstill. Even when we requested for information from the Ministries, we were able to get it quite fast. Now that things are going back to normal, things have slowed down a little bit. For that reason, we are yet to receive the Auditor General’s reports and requests to several Ministries, as our second round of engagements had already started. We need to consider this ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: vehicle inspections had stalled for not appreciating technology. We were able to push for digitalization of functions at NTSA. This was a very big win. This was an issue that later picked up by the Committee on Roads and Transportation, which we left for them to monitor the situation. We had interventions with Inspector General (IG) of the Nations Police Service. We were requesting for alternative facilities for detention for those found breaking curfew rules because we realized that they were also at risk of contracting COVID-19, where they were being detained. The Fifth Report was on economic and financial ... view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: It was in this Report where we had asked the Ministry of Education to fast track a digital literacy syllabus, which unfortunately, did not happen. This still remains an outstanding area, but we are aware now that the Standing Committee on Education has picked up on the education matters, we might not need to go into this. We will leave it to the Standing Committee on Education. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: The enrollment of Inua Jamii program had been presented to us. We had a problem with it because it was reported during the meeting by the Cabinet Secretary (CS) of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection, that the Inua Jamii register had not been updated at the time they were starting to roll out the program. We need to hear the status right now and what has happened to these vulnerable people who might have been left out of the program. It is important that we receive the report. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: In the seventh and eighth progress report, which we tabled on the 9th of June, 2020, and the 7th of July, 2020, progressively. This included the fact-finding missions that we did in Isiolo and Meru Counties to check on their preparedness and response. view
• 1 Oct 2020 in Senate: On the eight report, we are half way through our mandate. We checked on general issues on accessibility especially accessibility of basic needs by most of the people and how food was being distributed to the vulnerable by the national Government and also what the county governments were doing towards that. We observed that there were a lot of measures needed to be put into place because of these issues. Since there were floods at around that time, and locust invasion, we were worried about counties that are not easily accessible. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we also lauded heavily. We ... view