Recha Julius Murgor

Sen. Murgor Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to air my views on this important Bill. I thank Sen. Kibwana for coming up with the Bill and I support it. Our people produce whatever they can according to their areas. Some of them do not...

Sen. MurgorPreviously we have had a very big challenge on staffing and we divided the country into 19 regions, but we did not have staff on the ground. Right now, we are employing 368 new staff. We have done 167 and next month we are doing the final batch. That...

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Sen. MurgorSen. Olekina and the Majority Leader, just approach the Chair please.

Statement pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) , the Senate Majority Leader, proceed. BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING TUESDAY, 14TH MAY, 2024

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) to hereby present the business of the Senate for the week commencing Tuesday, 14th May, 2024. During the sitting of the Senate held on Thursday, 2nd May, 2024, the Senate considered and passed two Bills at the Committee of...

Next Order, Clerk. May 9, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 13

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Sen. Murgor Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to know from the Cabinet Secretary about a piece of land, which was given by the West Pokot County Council to Kerio Valley Development Authority (KVDA) around 1983 or 1986. Today, it is a dam, which is generating power....

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Sen. Murgor Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate, today, 26th March, 2024- Report of the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the Gambling Control Bill (National Assembly Bills No.70 of 2023) . (Sen. Murgor laid the documents...

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Sen. Murgor Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. I thank the Senate Leader of Majority, Sen. Cheruiyot, for seconding the Bill. I also thank all the Senators who have contributed to it. This is one of the Bills that have received the contributions of many Senators considering the...

Thank you, Sen. Murgor. Hon. Members, there seems to be no other Member interested in contributing to this Bill. I call upon Sen. M. Kajwang’, the Mover of the Bill, to reply.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. I thank the Senate Leader of Majority, Sen. Cheruiyot, for seconding the Bill. I also thank all the Senators who have contributed to it. This is one of the Bills that have received the contributions of many Senators considering the situation of...

defined. Article 36 of that Constitution said that, Kenya shall be divided into 40 districts and Nairobi region and each district shall elect one Senator. That was at independence. Therefore, the definition of the number of districts was in the Constitution. The independence Constitution did something that the 2010 Constitution...

law and ask ourselves whether we are being relevant. A county that was formed on the basis of a district that was formed on the basis of ethnicity, how then do we expect to be heterogeneous all of a sudden and yet it was ethnically homogeneous at the point of...

Thank you Senator Kajwang’. Putting of the question of this Bill is deferred to the next sitting. (Putting of the Question on the Bill deferred) March 26, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 43 THE SUGAR BILL (NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BILLS NO.34 OF 2022)

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. As I was spewing wisdom last time, the sugar industry serves at most 400,000 small-scale farmers. These numbers, when you do your multiply effect, many Kenyans rely on the sugar industry to put food on their table and take their children to school. That...

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Sen. Murgor Madam Temporary Speaker, I second. THE COFFEE BILL (SENATE BILLS NO. 10 OF 2023) DIVISION ELECTRONIC VOTING March 21, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 49 Sen. Murgor Mombasa County; Sen. Gataya Mo Fire, Tharaka Nithi County; Sen. Githuku, Lamu County; Sen. Kinyua, Laikipia County; Sen. Kisang, Elgeyo Marakwet County; Sen....

DIVISION ELECTRONIC VOTING March 21, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 50 NOES: Nil.

DIVISION ELECTRONIC VOTING March 21, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 51 Sen. Murgor Madam Temporary Speaker, I second. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to) NOES: Nil.

Hon. Members, these are the results of the division-

Sen. Murgor Thank you. Proceed, Sen. Olekina. March 20, 2024 SENATE DEBATES 27 Sen. Murgor and such things on the road or around compounds should be something that parents, schools and everyone else should be conscious about. That way, there will be consciousness, so that you do not see such...

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