Joy Adhiambo Gwendo

Sen. Gwendo Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will wait for the time to request for a response.

Sen. Gwendo Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to add my voice to this amendment Bill. I would like to start by congratulating Senator Njoroge. I would like to register my disappointment that despite the fact that in a House of 67 Members, it had...

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Sen. Gwendo Mr. Speaker, Sir, my request is for four weeks but should we have the Statement ready even in two weeks, then we will notify the Chair and be allocated time to issue it. I think Sen. Gwendo will appreciate that you need to work across Ministries because of...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, although the Statement is directed to my Committee, you notice that it is cross-cutting. The Senator wants to know some issues about the road network and about the control of hippos by the KWS. It is a cross-cutting Statement and we will need to consult other Ministries...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, my request is for four weeks but should we have the Statement ready even in two weeks, then we will notify the Chair and be allocated time to issue it. I think Sen. Gwendo will appreciate that you need to work across Ministries because of the cross-cutting...

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Sen. Gwendo Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to support the President’s Speech. Personally, it was good for him to address the nation and Parliament before going to The Hague. Initially before calling Parliament, many had anticipated that he would not go and this had...

Sen. Gwendo Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, aware that the county transport is one of the devolved functions under the Fourth Schedule to the Constitution; noting that Article 54 (1) (c) of the Constitution entitles persons with disability to reasonable access to...

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Sen. Gwendo Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for that intervention and protection. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, it also seeks to impose an obligation on the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) to advise and make recommendations to the county governments on all matters that pertain...

Sen. Gwendo Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, aware that Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) is a critical component in effective service delivery in all sectors of our economy; further aware that the fibre optic backbone (FOB) is already laid in most counties; appreciating...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank my colleagues. I am sure that three quarters of the Senators have supported this Motion. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, those who have contributed have raised very important recommendations. I promise that we will consider all those recommendations when...

Standing Order No.54 (3) that we postpone the putting of the Question to tomorrow.Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to reply. Thank you, Sen. Halima. Your request is not granted because the Chair finds that this is not a Motion concerning counties. This is because the...

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problems. This is because the alternative of trying to provide for qualified consultants, surgeons and doctors is a very long-term activity. It will, probably, take about 15 years to produce one consultant in the medical field. It is, therefore, going to be almost impossible to provide all these hospitals in...

laid. We are fortunate that there are four major servers that are serving the FOC in this country. We have the East African Marine System (TEAMS), Seacom, Easy and the Lion. Therefore, we have no restriction. Because of the availability of these servers here, the cost of using these facilities...

hospitals because they need to be managed by physicians who are there in hospitals and yet we know that it is possible that we can manage most of the patients when they are at their homes. If we had these systems where we can communicate with our clients, we can...

Madam Temporary Speaker, as I rise to second this Motion, I want to thank my colleague Sen. (Prof.) Lesan who is a specialist in the field which the Motion is touching. The subject that we are discussing today is very important to the lives of the people of Kenya and...

Technology (ICT). Kenya has moved forward now that we have FOC backbone which is now closer to most of the counties. However, we need to take it to the nearest hospitals in the counties.Madam Temporary Speaker, every county today has funds noting that in the Fifth Schedule of the Constitution,...

transferrable from one county to another, I want to call upon the national Government to have a mechanism of how somebody can remain rather than moving from one place to another leading to some places lacking the right personnel.I want to say that this Motion has come at the right...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I saw the professor wondering why it should be me, but I would like to inform him that I was the only one on the other side. Secondly, I am humbled that this is a Motion which has been moved and seconded by professors and...

available in the normal way in which we communicate now.We have been talking of areas, especially those where we can get a lot of employment in this country and, one of those is in outsourcing. I have an example in which many companies in America want to outsource in Kenya...

another one is Nairobi and the patient is in India, they will solve big problems because of this. I think after spending so much money, I think the backbone is already there. The backbone is like a railway line and we have already built the railway line and now we...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this Motion. This is a very good Motion, touching on public health, which is one of the big pillars that this economy and country can build on, if we want to see the country prospering....

economy to grow.Madam Temporary Speaker, I also want to thank the seconder of the Motion, Sen. (Prof.) John Lonyangapuo, who is a professor of Applied Mathematics. He has actually done very well in an area that is not traditionally his. We hope that we can benefit this country through Motions...

Sen. Gwendo Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me a chance to add my voice and to note the efforts of the Jubilee Government through the Report by His Excellency the President on Thursday, 27th March. I will start by saying that a lot has been said about...