Yusuf Haji

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether my humble statement will suffice, because I do not think any governor has any legal basis to declare any public holiday other than the central Government. Therefore, they should be ignored totally. (Laughter) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for guiding...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I join my colleagues in congratulating the Senate Majority Leader for the letter he has written and also the discussion he had with the Attorney-General. I do not know whether I got him right; he said that he also discussed with His Excellency the President. Maybe...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I thank the gracious lady for asking for this statement. The statement is really loaded. I will ask to be given a week from today to answer all the issues that have been raised. Sen. Kajwang, is it on that point?

No, Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir. I asked for a week but you ruled that I should give it on Tuesday. We will do everything possible to give it on Tuesday but I would like to answer my colleague, Sen. Kajwang, he has been with me in the national security meetings....

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I request the Clerk’s Office to make available the HANSARD to the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government. I will also have my copy. You should emphasis how urgent and important it is. That is satisfactory now. That brings us to...

Order, Senators! We have finished with Order No.8. We have adjourned debate, like it has been done.Again, Order No.9 is Division. Of course, we do not have the threshold. We could go to division, but like Sen. Murkomen has so correctly said when he was chairing the Committee of the...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a point of order. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is totally out of order. This is an honourable House. It is not proper all the time to refer to KANU and Kariuki Chotara who is dead. People should come up with ideas that will unite this...

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I would like to contribute.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to differ with my very close friend that discussing the Speech made by His Excellency the President has not been overtaken by time. When His Excellency the President addressed a special sitting of Parliament, there was no opportunity for Members to ventilate and air...

Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I support the Motion. I will not speak too much because I had one of my teeth removed this afternoon. However, let me start by saying: “Uhuru juu, juu, juu; juu zaidi tena”, because he has made us proud as a nation....

Mr. Speaker, Sir, through the Chairperson of this Committee, the Ministry should admit that the shortage of teachers in remote parts of our country is as a result of not recruiting teachers from those areas who do not need any housing. They can even sleep under a tree or anywhere...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think Sen. Ndiema has answered my concern. I am not questioning the wisdom of the Committee, but I am wondering about the practicability of going for a retreat to interview only one person. Is that really in order?

Yes, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Statement is on the disqualification of Miss Gladys C. Tarus from police recruitment. On 5th August, 2014, Sen. Kittony requested for a Statement on the disqualification of Miss Gladys Chepkwony Tarus from the recent police recruitment and other previous recruitments by the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF)...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to seek a Statement from the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Health concerning the destruction of medical supplies, that is, insulin at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) that was meant to benefit children living with diabetes type II. In the Statement, the Chairperson should...

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. What is it Sen. (Dr.) Machage?

Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you may allow, could you agree that in the Statement sought, an apology be made by the KRA to Kenyans and particularly to patients with diabetes for that kind of callous conduct on a donated drug to these needy people?

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also wanted to ride on that Statement if you allow me because it shows callousness, recklessness and something beyond mere negligence. I would like to know what action has been taken or will be taken against the officer in KRA who caused that donation to be...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, there is a part which the Member seeking the Statement did not touch. Kenya Airports Authority (KAA) is asking for charges to be

that KAA is asking for storage charges when they have already made that drug unusable?

Mr. Speaker, Sir, further to that, it looks like there is a problem especially when you look at the way the Ministry of Health is refusing to accept donations and support from willing donors from abroad. A case in mind is on Saturday last week. There are some missionaries who...

Sen. Sang.

Mr. Speaker Sir, it is just another rider to the same question. There is a donor in this country called Shoe for Africa who are building one of the biggest children hospital in Kenya at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. This donor has been slapped with VAT by the...

Yes Mr. Speaker Sir. Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir, I ---

Let us get the last one from Sen. Mositet unless he is on another matter.

Mr. Speaker Sir, regarding what Sen. Sang was requesting, he is raising issues to do with taxes and I thought that, that one should really be on another Standing Committee maybe Finance, Commerce and Budget and not on Health.

Order! Then you should have risen on a point of order not as a request. You are completely out of order. Proceed, Sen. (Prof.) Lesan!

Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. I rise on behalf of the Chairperson of the Committee on Health, Sen. Kuti who is not here. Before making a commitment on when to give the answer, I concur with the sentiments of the other Senators as regards the issue of medicines because this...

You asked for what duration?

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the incident because this is something that has come to light. As a responsible leader and as a Member of a political party, we are protected by the Constitution to hold our party meetings. We did that in Nandi County and discussed the issues that were before us on the...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have three statements to issue this afternoon. IMPENDING MASSACRE IN TURKANA COUNTY On 16th July, 2014,

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