Masitsa Naomi Shiyonga

Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir,for giving me this opportunity to condole with the families. I support the Statement on the tragedy that befell our children. Mr. Speaker, Sir, my first Statement in this House was with regard to traffic rules. Many of our drives flout these rules with...

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Sen. Shiyonga Thank you so much, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the statement on the registration of schools in Bomet County. The registration of schools should not only be tailored to Bomet County, but rather across the country. This is because it is...

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Sen. ShiyongaI fully support this Bill with the hope that it is going to change what people have been thinking about public participation; that they are policies that are put into paper and onto shelves. People need to be told the truth so that they can discuss and agree.It is...

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Sen. Shiyonga Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to support the two statements that have been brought here by the two Senators. As other Senators have said, the local sugar industry has been hit hard by corruption, mismanagement and a coalition of cartels composed of barons...

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Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to express condolences on my own behalf, my family and the people of Baringo County to the family of our late colleague, Sen. Okello, especially to Hellen and Ruth. I also did not have an opportunity to interact...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to express condolences on my own behalf, my family and the people of Baringo County to the family of our late colleague, Sen. Okello, especially to Hellen and Ruth. I also did not have an opportunity to interact with him...

Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support this Bill on the creation of the Office of the County Attorney at the county level. Just as my colleagues have said, creation of employment in this country is wanting. The creation of this function, with...

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Order Senator. Who were you directing the gestures to? Sen. Shiyonga Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they were just like this. (Sen. Shiyonga gestured) (Laughter)

Sen. Shiyonga Sen. Wamatangi, resume your seat. I gave a bit of time for Senators to contribute and make observations though strictly speaking, that is not anticipated in the Standing Orders. As you are aware, the Statement by the Senate Minority Leader, who is also the Senator for Siaya County,...

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Sen. Shiyonga Let us have the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. June 13, 2018 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Shiyonga Order Senator! Kindly move the Bill.

Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to support this Statement. It is sad to hear such a business is going to take place in Kenya. More goods and services are manufactured in Kenya and it is high time markets for such goods and services are found in...

Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity---

Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute on the Statement. I commend my fellow Senator who has come up with this Statement. This particular spot has taken a lot of precious lives because of corruption that we have been singing about. This incident...

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Sen. ShiyongaDadaab and Kakuma refugee camps. We have hosted and we are still hosting immigrants in these particular camps.It is, therefore, important that these people are treated with the dignity they deserve and are taken care of well by getting their basic needs, just like other human beings. I realise...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is a very important platform and I am happy that the Speaker was kind enough to send Sen. Shiyonga to the IPU platform. I was concerned at the beginning of this session because we were...

One of the reasons as to why I was unhappy about the ruling on the immunity by Parliament was that in Maldives, one Member of Parliament was attacked by police inside the building. Therefore, it becomes a problem when parliaments are not protected. It is through this initiative of the...

Thank you Madam Temporary Speaker. Migration has a very painful feeling to those who are involved in the exercise. It either means June 7, 2018 SENATE DEBATES

displacement from your normal surroundings and locality that you have been used to for a very long time because you are either going for green pastures elsewhere where you want to eke a living or you are looking for survival in the area where you reside.We have seen it over...

tyrants who make our populations desire to move away. Every human being must be respected and given the dignity that he requires where he stays within that country so as to enhance the human capital because we are the people who create the wealth of this world. Therefore, the resource...

Without much ado, I am happy to contribute to this Report. The Report should form part of our archives, so that at any given time we are challenged with this kind of issues, we have something that we can draw back to and make reference to.Thank you, Madam Temporary.

That is a good contribution. Let us have, Sen. Kajwang Moses Otieno, the Senator for Homa Bay County.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. The IPU is one of the ways through which parliament engages in diplomacy; something called Parliamentary diplomacy that people do not take seriously. We believe that diplomacy is only when a Cabinet Secretary and other state officials engage with...

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freely in Africa. We have tried to achieve that within the East African Community (EAC). To a great extent, Kenya has been very flexible in terms of allowing others to come and get work permits. Other nations should also reciprocate so that we look at Africa as for Africans rather...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion because it touches on human life which is very important to each one of us. As an individual, I am deeply concerned with anything that touches on the life and dignity of human beings. The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) is...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I applaud the Kenyan delegation that went for the IPU hearings to discuss the issue on the impact of safe, orderly and regular migration. These migration laws have come at the right time when we are having a crisis of refugees from Syria heading towards...

attendants. There must be some law to assist professionals who go to countries as immigrants. With global education, we will, therefore, set global standards of work and jobs.I beg to support this Motion.

I will now call upon the Mover to reply. Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I thank those that have contributed to this Motion. All contributions, inputs and sentiments that have been discussed in this House will be taken into consideration to enrich this report. It is to an...

Thank you. I will now put the question. (Question put and agreed to) Let us move on to the next Order. REGISTRATION OF PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for granting me this opportunity to move this important Motion. I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, AWARE that the National Council for Persons with Disabilities was established through the Persons with Disabilities Act, 2003; FURTHER AWARE that registration of persons living with disabilities...

ALSO CONCERNED that owing to lack of accurate data on persons living with disabilities, the government at both levels cannot plan properly for this category of people; NOW THEREFORE, the Senate calls upon the National Council for Persons with Disabilities in collaboration with Ministry of East African Community, Labour and...

most of these people live below the poverty line, which is below a dollar a day. This makes it virtually impossible for them to afford that exercise on their own.Madam Temporary Speaker, I, therefore, plead with this House that we look at this Motion very positively and pass it. Once...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to second this Motion. I want to say clearly – and this must be known by all Kenyans – that we have Senators in this House who have a strong desire and a passion to front issues of disability and to support...

has not been done. A census is important because it will help us, as a country, to know how to intervene.Kenya is among the nations that ratified the convention on the rise of PWDs. By doing so, we affirmed that we were going to comply like other state parties, intervene...

benefit from the education, get out of the streets and even help their families including their mothers and fathers who are also begging in the streets.Madam Temporary Speaker, there is need for PWDs, especially children, to be helped so that they are economically empowered. They will pull their families away...

Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this Motion. This is a self-explanatory Motion. It is not one that we should belabour to pursue to the Government to register those living with disabilities. Disability is not inability. If this Government can register...

people living amongst us, it is incumbent upon us to ensure that they do not suffer. The Government should create a way of ensuring that these people have a means of living.Madam Temporary Speaker, these people are all over the country. If you go to any county, you will get...

We have heard of a lot of money being lost through corruption in this country. Therefore, when we say there is no money to identify the PWDs, it is a big joke. If a sum of Kshs9 billion was stolen unnoticed by individuals who were later arrested after the event,...

Thank you very much, Senator. Proceed, Sen. Were.

Hon. Senator, you know very well that you cannot mix the languages. So, you better just concentrate where you are best in.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I will speak using the English language. However, they usually ask that question in Kiswahili and that is why I was tempted to say it in that language. They will ask, “Where do we get these PWDs to put them on the party nomination list?”...

Proceed, Sen. (Rev.) Waqo.

Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to add my voice to this important Motion on registration of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) . It is 55 years since Kenya got Independence.Talking about this and stating that we do not have the data that can guide the nation...

Well spoken. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri, proceed.

Madam Temporary Speaker, it is actually very painful for me to contribute on this Motion on the question of requesting or calling upon the National Council of Persons with Disabilities (NCPWDs) in collaboration with the Ministry of East African Community, Labour and Social Protection to carry out nationwide registration of...

I will expect that this Motion should find a Bill that will be supportive in the form of a legal framework, in order to operationalise and create action on how we need to treat people with disabilities in this country.From my own professional angle, there are various types of disabilities...

kind of people. However, the cash transfers are sometimes abused. The people who are supposed to benefit from the cash transfers do not because the money goes to the other normal individuals who have no disability whatsoever but you will hear people saying they have taken care of many people...

timely and we should take advantage of the census next year to include this as one of the questions to be included in the census. This will help give us a global figure nationally on how many PWDs we have with us.I beg to support.

The Senator’s suggestion that it should be incorporated in the next census will be a good shortcut for us to know the number of PWDs we have in this country. Proceed, Sen. Shiyonga. Sen. Shiyonga Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Motion of registration of persons living with June 7, 2018 SENATE DEBATES

disabilities. From the outset, I want to say that I support this Motion and thank Sen. Khaniri for it.Registration of persons living with disabilities is an important thing in this country and we should have done it a long time ago. Registration will allow them to push for their agenda...

Sen. Kasanga Sylvia Mueni.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. I want to thank Sen. Khaniri and Sen. (Dr.) Musuruve because they continue to enlighten me on the plight of Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) . If I am being enlightened, I am sure other Kenyans are also being enlightened....