Josephine Naisula Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I will try in five minutes to capture most of the issues that I wanted to raise. Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing this very important Motion. From...

Sen. Lesuuda I now call upon the Mover to reply. September 18, 2013 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Lesuuda Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, some of these Motions that we see here are things that you might not easily--- It is not like a school or hospital where you will go and see...

Sen. Lesuuda Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I will try in five minutes to capture most of the issues that I wanted to raise. Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing this very important Motion. From...

Sen. Lesuuda Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I will try in five minutes to capture most of the issues that I wanted to raise. Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I would like to thank Sen. (Prof.) Lonyangapuo for bringing this very important Motion. From...

Sen. Lesuuda Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion by the distinguished Senator, Sen. Wako. This is a timely Motion, but I will add a rejoinder, as Sen. Kagwe mentioned, that we hope that the Committee on Implementation will follow...

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Sen. Mungai, Nakuru County.

Sen. Lesuuda I call upon the Mover to reply. September 17, 2013 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Lesuuda Sen. (Dr.) Zani, that is in order. It is my opinion that you mean tomorrow. I think next week will be appropriate because tomorrow we will still not have a quorum. Many of our...

Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support the amendment of the Motion. When we were reading the original Motion, we realized that we were telling the same person to do the plan and to also put in place measures to ensure that it can be done. But now...

cycle of the budget.When you look at the first budgets, you will find that they have a lot of misallocations in terms of where the funds are going. Most of those budgets do not tally with what the counties have. Most of them were unable to read and tabulate the...

county has an area that is marginalised. However, it is only when you have a clear plan or blueprint that will guide you that you will identify and see where you need to improve.

I call upon the Mover to reply.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I refer to Standing Order No.51 (3) and request that we defer the putting of the question to a date that you will guide us on, probably, on Wednesday afternoon because we do not have the numbers to vote on the amendment and the main...

Sen. (Dr.) Zani, that is in order. It is my opinion that you mean tomorrow. I think next week will be appropriate because tomorrow we will still not have a quorum. Many of our colleagues have travelled. So, we will have the question put on next week Wednesday afternoon at...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I think we should defer this Motion to tomorrow.

Senator, I think you can proceed. Owing to the constraint of time, you may not have it seconded, but we will proceed tomorrow from where you will have stopped.

Madam Temporary Speaker, since I came back today, I request that you allow me to prepare myself and move the Motion tomorrow if that is okay.

So you want to prepare your talking points? That is okay. Prepare you notes. We want you to make a good presentation. September 17, 2013 SENATE DEBATES

Hon. Senators, there being no further business, the Senate stands adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday 18th September, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. The Senate rose at 6.05 p.m.

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuudamake use of the huge water resources that have been found in Turkana? How do we harmonize the use of the coal deposits and the new mineral finds in the country, so that, at the end of the day, all these resources that are looking so good for the...

Sen. Lesuuda I call upon the Mover to reply. September 17, 2013 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Lesuuda Sen. (Dr.) Zani, that is in order. It is my opinion that you mean tomorrow. I think next week will be appropriate because tomorrow we will still not have a quorum. Many of our...

Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support the amendment of the Motion. When we were reading the original Motion, we realized that we were telling the same person to do the plan and to also put in place measures to ensure that it can be done. But now...

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Sen. Mungai, Nakuru County.

Sen. Lesuuda I call upon the Mover to reply. September 17, 2013 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Lesuuda Sen. (Dr.) Zani, that is in order. It is my opinion that you mean tomorrow. I think next week will be appropriate because tomorrow we will still not have a quorum. Many of our...

Madam Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also stand to support the amendment of the Motion. When we were reading the original Motion, we realized that we were telling the same person to do the plan and to also put in place measures to ensure that it can be done. But now...

cycle of the budget.When you look at the first budgets, you will find that they have a lot of misallocations in terms of where the funds are going. Most of those budgets do not tally with what the counties have. Most of them were unable to read and tabulate the...

county has an area that is marginalised. However, it is only when you have a clear plan or blueprint that will guide you that you will identify and see where you need to improve.

I call upon the Mover to reply.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I refer to Standing Order No.51 (3) and request that we defer the putting of the question to a date that you will guide us on, probably, on Wednesday afternoon because we do not have the numbers to vote on the amendment and the main...

Sen. (Dr.) Zani, that is in order. It is my opinion that you mean tomorrow. I think next week will be appropriate because tomorrow we will still not have a quorum. Many of our colleagues have travelled. So, we will have the question put on next week Wednesday afternoon at...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I think we should defer this Motion to tomorrow.

Senator, I think you can proceed. Owing to the constraint of time, you may not have it seconded, but we will proceed tomorrow from where you will have stopped.

Madam Temporary Speaker, since I came back today, I request that you allow me to prepare myself and move the Motion tomorrow if that is okay.

So you want to prepare your talking points? That is okay. Prepare you notes. We want you to make a good presentation. September 17, 2013 SENATE DEBATES

Hon. Senators, there being no further business, the Senate stands adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday 18th September, 2013 at 9.00 a.m. The Senate rose at 6.05 p.m.

Sen. Lesuuda Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as you have realized, there is a lot of interest for others to also contribute. So, I will give Sen. Mositet two minutes, Sen. Bule one minute, Sen. Wangari one minute, Sen. Wako one minute, Sen. Chelule one minute and I will have four...

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion in an amended version, after I brought it to the Speaker’s attention and received approval:- THAT, aware that the pastoralist areas account for the largest proportion of livestock production in Kenya estimated to consist of 81 per...

Sen. Lesuuda I am seconding.

Sen. Lesuuda Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, aware that the pastoralist areas account for the largest proportion of livestock production in Kenya estimated to consist of 81 percent indigenous cattle, 92 percent of sheep, 93 percent of goats, and 99 percent of...

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute and support this very important Motion. I would also like to congratulate and thank distinguished Senator, Sen. G.G. Kariuki, for moving it. It is very important because when you talk about security, it is about the...

Sen. Lesuuda Madam Temporary Speaker, first of all, I would like to say that I support this Motion because it is aimed at making the counties function. In my view, we must take step after step to be able to achieve the objective of making counties operational. While ECDE institutions...

Sen. Lesuuda On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Is the hon. Senator in order to give the impression that there are parts of this country which do not have any economic contribution or value to this country? There are areas where there is economic potential but it is...

Sen. Lesuuda

Sen. Lesuuda Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for according me this opportunity. Let me at the very outset join my colleagues who have spoken earlier in sending my deepest condolences to the families affected by this spate of violence. I want to thank the Mover of this...

Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First, I want to thank you for the opportunity to contribute to this very serious Motion on the insecurity in our country. First of all, I would like to send my condolences and those of my county which is, at the moment,...