Cherarkey Samson K

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, and good morning to my neighbour. Mine is straightforward. Under the Shirika Plan, how many Kenyans have refugee status across Ethiopia and across other nationalities? Under the Shirika Plan, how much resources does the Cabinet Secretary in charge of foreign affairs need to bring back...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the onset before I support your statement, I want to congratulate my friend, Governor Oparanya, the new Cabinet Secretary for the good job he is doing in the coffee and other subsectors. Madam Temporary Speaker, sorry for saying this, but there is a perception...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for that indulgence. I do not take it for granted. Request for statement on the death of Dr. Daniel Ndege Chacha who was a doctor at Kenyatta National Hospital. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order 53 (1) , to seek a Statement...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is disappointing. I think Kenya has become a hub of fake recruitment agencies from the First Choice to Trustpine Travel Agency where Rish Kamunge was conning people allegedly through TikTok. I even saw my youth from Emgwen stranded. The sad reality is that there...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I support this Motion as passed by the National Assembly and the Senate, and congratulate Sen. Crystal Asige. I know we have come a long way with this Bill. I request indulgence of chairpersons, that in future, when they are midwifing a...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. Thank you to the Majority Leader. I will borrow his notes after I finish submitting. I am willing. I am happy because the Majority Leader said he will support me. So, he will mobilise the numbers, because he is the owner of the baby. I...

There is no way Sen. (Dr.) Boni Khalwale can go with that Statement while I sit here. Understanding Order No.105, can he provide evidence that, as a governor who served 10 years, I was drunk with power? There is enough evidence that I was not drunk with power; that is...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I would also like to thank the leadership of this House. This is among the nine Bills following the NADCO Report. I would have expected that we should have dispensed off this Bill so that we allow Members to prosecute other Bills....

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise under Standing Order No.58. I am surprised. I thought Sen. Dullo is the Chairperson of the Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. She should be requesting the House to brief it on the escalating insecurity in the country instead of blaming it elsewhere....

On the Statement by the Chairperson, sorry if it escaped my mind.

Yes, please.

Mr. Speaker, I do not know why Sen. Dullo is getting irritated and yet she is the Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations.

You have raised your point as far as Sen. Dullo being the Chairperson of the Senate Standing Committee on National Security and Foreign Relations. However, you are out of order as regards the reference to Standing Order 58. I believe Sen. Dullo should be able to speak to that aspect...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I thank the Chairperson. The report on the county assemblies is a straightforward matter. County assemblies concentrate more on recurrent expenditure than development expenditure. As the Chairperson said, we, as a committee, need these entities to appear before us to get the second bite...

Yes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on behalf of Sen. Esther Okenyuri, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) 1 to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare regarding the poor enforcement of anti-trafficking human trafficking laws amid growing concern over the increased cases of...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issue of SHA, I want to caution the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) . Under Article 229 of the Constitution, the OAG is very critical in auditing. I am the biggest champion of transparency agencies in the country. However, we should not allow the...

Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I am not being diversionary. We should avoid double standards. Do not contribute in a way that you want to injure your colleagues or other Kenyans. I am not injuring them. The Secretary General of ODM should avoid double standards. When ODM counties perform well,...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is an honour to second this Motion. Yesterday, we debated a Motion on the issue of maize. Today, we are debating West Kano and the role of EACC in this matter. I want to agree largely with the report. Our farmers sacrifice a...

So, you are proposing that we have court martial? If the EACC has bungled investigations, we can become radical and allow the army to take over through court martial. If the watchman is the one allowing stealing, who will ensure that the watchman is being watched? Just as the Member...

Thank you, Senator. Let us now get the response by the Cabinet Secretary. We request that you summarise the responses as much as possible because the answers have already been circulated to the Members. The Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration (Hon. Kipchumba Murkomen) : Good afternoon, Mr. Temporary...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Statement by Sen. Chute of Mandera. Due to the ongoing drought situation in the country, it is very sad that 60 years down the line, we as a country are still discussing non-access to clean and safe water, yet many millions have...

Nowadays he is wise. I accept.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, what the Senate Majority Leader has said is happening on paper. It is only yesterday that the residents of Mandera demonstrated because Kenya Power has not added them a generator. In fact, Kenya Power should have added them another generator at the beginning of the Holy Month...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to congratulate the newly elected Chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Sen. Wafula, who is the Senator of Bungoma County. I expected him to move the Report in Kiswahili. He has started with new energy. In Tanzania, they refer to...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations regarding the increase in protected hooligans operating within offices in several counties across the country. In the Statement, the Committee should...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the Statement on the teacher’s medical cover by Sen. (Dr.) Murango. I agree that teachers suffer. If they are not fighting for hardship allowance, they are fighting for medical cover. If they are not fighting for medical cover, they are fighting for the implementation...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. As I rise to second, I want to commend the new Vice-Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Tourism, Sen. Esther Okenyuri. She is doing a good job. She just landed the other day as the Vice-Chairperson. I was told that she...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. In answering, I think what the Senate Majority Leader forgot is that the Ministry has also left the President to be explaining the issues of SHA instead of them communicating to the country even on a daily basis. I hope you will take those...

Sen. Onyonka, please proceed.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am following up on the question of medical interns that Sen. Hamida asked. In April 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, 9,000 interns were engaged for a contract of three years to promote UHC. In April, 2023, the Summit sat in Naivasha and...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) , to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Trade, Industrialisation and Tourism, regarding the heated verbal exchange and altercation between the employees of Kenya Airways (KQ) and a Nigerian passenger at Jomo Kenyatta International...

I thought of Safaricom on network coverage. We must agree that we need network coverage in those regions, so that it becomes easy to track and eliminate these terrorists. I do not call them Ethiopians. I call them terrorists, because what they did is inhuman and an animalistic behaviour.The issue...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Maize farmers have been demonstrating for long. I thought that the wheat farmers are better off. It looks like whenever maize farmers speak, you must support us because we are in the same boat. As cereal farmers, we must agree.We are suffering because we did...

Sen. Mungatana requested Sen. Faki and I to move and to subsequently second. I will be very brief. Our heartfelt condolences and messages of goodwill to the family and friends of the late prolific radio and media personality, Leonard Mambo Mbotela. We continue to commiserate with the family. Many of...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I have read the committee report, but I found it was just a clean-up. I am a strong believer in institutions. This country is facing non-implementation of development of institutions. We do not have a shortage of laws that can fight corruption...

Hon. Senators, the Senate stands adjourned until tomorrow, Wednesday, 26th February, 2025, at 9.30 a.m. The Senate rose at 6.30 p.m. "corruption" means—

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Yes, Sen. Cherarkey. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have answered me partly, but I needed your direction Under Standing Order No.1. Now that there is ongoing reconstitution on the Committee, can you direct that since this matter of security is urgent...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to support two statements. On the issue of security, Sen. Eddy should be comfortable because he is seated next to one of the members of the National Security Committee. I hope you will seize that matter. You can consult me and Sen....

The way the senior counsel is smiling makes me agree.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Sen. Okong’o Omogeni. He has spoken like an Adventist elder. That is a good sermon for the Sabbath. We have called them to be pure. The second proposal is that we need to put trackers on these rapists, the way they have...

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. What is your point? Okay, he has finished. Under Standing Order No.105 on accuracy of facts, has Sen. Osotsi reported to the police about the demolition of the stalls? This is not a marketplace where you just make sweeping statements. We...

You can see they are even heckling now. Vihiga County is represented--- You know Eddy, you are heckling and we wanted to make you the Chairperson of the Committee on Roads. Why are you heckling?

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Health regarding the gruesome murder of Mr. Gilbert Kinyua, an inpatient at Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) in Nairobi City County. In the Statement, the Committee should- COMMUNICATION FROM THE...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you and take this opportunity to welcome the students from the University of Eldoret where I am an Alma mater. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before the University of Eldoret was given a charter, it used to be a school, under Moi University,...

Who can intimidate, Sen.(Laughter)

(Loud consultations)

I was not there!

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. From the onset, I support this Motion by the Senate Majority Leader. I wish to make a few comments. First is to congratulate the Rt. Hon. former Prime Minister Raila Odinga for running this race. As many of my colleagues have said,...

On a point order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Of course I would not have wanted to interrupt the good Senator for Nandi, but I am rising under Standing Order No.105 on responsibility for statement of fact. I have read the NADCO Report page by page. May I know which recommendation...

Yes, I have. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for seeing you today in the morning. After this, I will buy a hair comb for my brother, Sen. Methu. In fact, he has answered himself by insinuating. I did not say the NADCO Report has the name of Raila Odinga....

I wish to inform Sen. Eddy Oketch that on the Mandela, it was not Cuban but Palestinian war.

Order, Senators. Can you take your seats? Sen. Cherarkey, sometimes do not cause unnecessary drama in front of visitors. Order, Sen. Cherarkey. I will not call your name another four times. Why are you misbehaving? Hon. Senators, I would like to acknowledge Sen. Eddy Oketch. (Loud consultations)

On a point of information, Madam Temporary Speaker.

Madam Temporary Speaker, on a point of information. The issue of Janjaweed started in 2003, and by 2013, the Janjaweed created an offshoot called Rapid Support Forces (RSF) . Consequently, when you refer to RSF and Janjaweed, they are of the same family, but different species, if you did biology....