27 Apr 2023 in Senate:
licenses. If they are not teaching according to the Bible, then what business do they have in cheating our people? One of the issues that Archbishop Muheria said yesterday, which I propose the Committee should look into, is the financial status of these people by auditing their lifestyles. For example, the 800 acres in Kilifi County should be repossessed by the Government and redistributed to the people of Kilifi, because it was acquired through extortion. Yesterday, one of our colleagues said that one of his constituents sold a piece of land worth Kshs18 million and took Kshs11 million to the ...
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. You know very well what happened in the last Parliament. We passed the Data Protection Act in 2019 and already have the office of Data Protection Commissioner. Therefore, I believe, as Members have said, that it is good that the two Committees on ICT and Committee on National Security look into this matter seriously. Some people have taken fuliza and loans using the identification details of others. When you leave your ID at the security desk, do you know they can photocopy it? While you are away for a meeting for an hour or ...
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
taken. They go and register with telecommunication providers, either Safaricom, Airtel or Telcom, and eventually, you will find that you have a fuliza loan, and you know very well you did not apply for it. This is a serious security lapse. I agree with Sen. Orwoba that what needs to be done is automate the security desk in each building, so that they can have the Integrated Population Registration System (IPRS). Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they do not need to do a complicated system. They can use Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD). Those are easy things to be done, so ...
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to make comments on the three Statements and thank the three Chairs for the good work they are doing. These three particular Committees are very busy and they do a lot of work.
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
I thank the Leadership of Senate for agreeing to split the Committee of Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) into two Committees so that water companies and other special funds of the counties are checked and reports from the Auditor-General discussed.
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
From what the Chairperson has said, since 2014 the water companies and special funds were never audited by CPAIC. At least we know there is something going on now. The water pipelines across all the water companies in the country are mostly old and dilapidated and require rehabilitation.
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
County governments may not replace the pipelines. Going forward, it might be prudent for the county governments to seek funds from donors and the National Government so that they can be assisted to replace the old pipeline systems. Currently and from the reports we have received, they are losing close to 70 per cent of the water into non-revenue water.
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19 Apr 2023 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the acceptable percentage is about 25 per cent but most of them are above 40 per cent in most counties. One county loses 70 per cent. If you lose 70 per cent of what you get, it means you will go into losses. That is why we are saying most of the water companies are technically insolvent. They cannot run on their own. They get support from the county governments. We have also advised the governors to take charge. Some of the governors thought that the water companies are independent. They did not know that county ...
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