Olekina Ledama

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries regarding the plight of wheat farmers in Narok County and the whole of Kenya due to the influx of imported wheat into the country.In the statement,...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, on a point of information.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Also, I thank the Senate Majority Leader for allowing me to inform him. The Council of Ministers, whose chairman is the current Cabinet Secretary in charge of the Treasury in South Sudan, is comprised of Cabinet Secretaries of East Africa who deal with the Treasury....

Asante, Sen. Olekina. Sen. Karen. Nyamu.

Mhe. Spika, je huu ni ungwana kumlazimisha kiranja wa walio wachache kuzungumza Kiswahili? (Applause)

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to make some comments on two Statements briefly. The first one is the Statement brought by Sen. Peris Tobiko on Gender Based Violence (GBV) in Kajiado County. It is imperative that all of us should be concerned about GBV. For the past three months,...

On a point of information.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to inform the distinguished Senator of Nyamira County that the Health Committee has taken cognizance of the issues. Today, following our elections of chair and vice-hair, we prioritized looking at county governments' budgets on health care, the Medical Equipment Schemes (MES) and also...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for at least acknowledging that Maasai Mara University is a national university; not like your cantankerous fellow from Meru, the governor, who thought Maasais do not wear underwear.

I hope that we can continue improving and making sure that you encourage even local students from that area to take on political science courses so that they can be in the leadership for the future. You know people talk about the future generation being the youth. It is not....

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the now current Chair of the AU is talking of “They came with all these, but we came with God” instead of advancing together as one since the elections are over. What would one conclude? In my conclusion, our differences in terms of cultural upbringing will...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what the Senate Majority Whip is trying to communicate is that we had a way forward and we discussed, so that we do not have to reinvent the wheel and vote 10 times. Before the Committee looks at this, we can decide whether the two sides...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I will read the Statements on behalf of Sen. Hamida Kibwana. I rise pursuant to Standing Order 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Health regarding the tragic death by suicide of Francis Njuki, a medical intern at Thika Level...

interests. This picture which has been displayed here by Sen. Faki about the health facilities in Mombasa, is the same across the country.It is imperative that we become serious in pushing for these county governments to at least just focus on delivering one service; health care. As I comment on...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. It is indeed important to limit the debate and the Motion being proposed by the Senate Majority Leader, or is it the Senate Minority Leader today? It is an important Motion for us to consider. I beg to Second. (Question proposed) Hon. Senators, I...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for allowing me to make some brief comments. I am going to start with a Statement by the distinguished Senator from Nairobi County. It is sad that the Senate does not participate in approving the budget. Although we spend time and focus on...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We are living in very interesting times. As you can see today, I am standing in my position as Chief Whip of the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. I thank the former Chief Whip, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, for being so gracious by accepting,...

Governor Kahiga must understand that we are here as one nation and that type of divisive politics is uncalled for. It should not be allowed in this country. You cannot demean another community. You should allow a community to be fully represented. You cannot go out there and shame a...

Madam Temporary Speaker. Let me reiterate what my dear colleague, the Senator for Migori, Eddy, a Yale University graduate, has said. If we do not deal with this issue of pending bills, we are going to be wasting our time. We are going to be digging a bigger hole. The...

Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I beg to move that the Committee has considered and agreed with the amendments by the National Assembly- THAT, Clause 11 of the Bill be amended in sub-clause (1) - Moving to the other issue, we have challenges. It is time we recognised and realised that...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support a few statements. I want to begin with the statement that deals with the welfare of retirees. It is nonsensical. You will find teachers who worked for over 20 years retiring at to see how we can do away with these interests and...

There are some people who own like Kshs3 billion or 4 billion. However, you will not see that because it is a business. In fact, if you work with financial institutions and take a loan but delay to pay for two months, that bank will be after you like no...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. On a lighter note, I was trying to follow the contribution of my colleague, Sen. Cherarkey, and I was a bit confused because I did not know whether this Bill would now give Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) or the county assemblies money. He...

(LAPTRUST) or Local Authorities Provident Fund (LAPFUND), how is that set amount of money determined, yet, these schemes are busy investing?We should come up with a scheme whereby, we are able, and I will bring up a Statement here or a Motion to investigate these retirement schemes to see how...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am not a pessimist. I like to be a realist. I have listened to the good Cabinet Secretary stating that for Narok County, we will have 1,320 houses. We have six sub-counties in Narok County. She has indicated that there are 220 units...

are interested in, it means you are paying much more than that. I hope I have answered your question.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. Sir, on behalf of the distinguished Senator from Kisii, I rise to ask Question No.125, which has about three parts. The Questions read as follows –

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The supplementary question is per the instruction by the distinguished Senator who put the question. I will go specifically to the issue. The Cabinet Secretary, in his response, has alluded to a cancellation of one tender which has already been partially paid, that is...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to contribute on the statement by Sen. Mundigi on the welfare of police officers upon transfer or retirement. Let me appreciate the distinguished Senator for bringing an important issue. When the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations will be looking...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have no beef with people coming together to help one individual improve their status of living. I grew up in a society where we encouraged the harambee movement. However, I believe that the pace we are now taking in regulating fundraisings is completely ill-advised. I say...