Daniel Dickson Karaba

Sen. Karaba Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have not yet received the Statement from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education. I am still pursuing it and hope by the end of the week, I will be able to give an answer to the House.

Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, I cannot tell you what is happening with the Ministry because mine is not to micro-manage the Ministry of Education. What we November 17, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have not as a Committee received the Statement from the Education CS.

Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, we might not tell the reason but by the end of this week, I will be able to give the reason it has not been received.

Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will try to give both.

Sen. Karaba Exactly, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

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Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, last time I asked the Vice Chairperson an almost similar question. He promised this House that once tea prices improve in the world, the construction of Kirinyaga Tea Factor will commence. What promise will he give now that the prices have improved?

Sen. Karaba Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move:- THAT Clause 7 of the Bill be amended-

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Sen. KarabaNovember 11, 2015 SENATEDEBATES November 11, 2015 SENATEDEBATES Sen. Karaba Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move:- THAT Clause 7 of the Bill be amended- Sen. Karaba Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move:- THAT Clause 8 of the Bill be amended- Sen. Karaba Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg...

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Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move:- That Clause 47 of the Bill be amended- November 11, 2015 SENATEDEBATES

Madam Temporary Chairperson, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 49 of the Bill be amended in sub-clause (2) by inserting the words “and the respective Parent Teachers Association” immediately after the words “County Education Board” appearing in paragraph (b) . Madam Temporary Chairperson, the amendment seeks to incorporate the Parent...

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Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, upon receiving this question from my friend, Sen. Khaniri, I had to summon the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yesterday. I met them for quite some time and they confessed to us that it is not possible to release the Statement until the court so orders;...

Sen. Karaba That is not running away from the question. I am giving you information as I got from the source, which is TSC. I will give the answer next week when the case has been heard.

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Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, upon receiving this question from my friend, Sen. Khaniri, I had to summon the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) yesterday. I met them for quite some time and they confessed to us that it is not possible to release the Statement until the court so orders;...

Sen. Karaba That is not running away from the question. I am giving you information as I got from the source, which is TSC. I will give the answer next week when the case has been heard.

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Sen. Karabaproper regulations or prove to be inadequate to meet the disaster management programmes that they are meant to finance.It is a very important gap in the administration of county governments, with regard to disaster management. I would like to add, along with what is called Special Programmes---. I am...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill and thank my friend Sen. Haji, with whom I get into problems every now and again, for bringing such a wonderful Bill. I have always said in this House that we are here to ensure that proper laws are made...

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plans, the capacity building and preparedness measure to be taken disasters that a county like Kisumu can deal, with like floods.When it comes to major accidents, having capacity building to deal with that kind of disaster is out of this world, because the casualties that occur like people who are...

extent disaster management is going to be an excuse for infringing on private property or Bill of Rights.When I talked to my sister she declined going to court and said that court cases are very expensive and take a long time while we need an immediate solution. I then called...

Your time is up.

Asante Bw. Naibu Spika kwa nafasi hii. Ninampongeza Sen. Haji kwa huu Mswada wa Sheria. Mswada wenyewe umebobea kama mwenyewe. Hongera Sen. Haji. Ninatoa hisia zangu kuhusu mikasa ambayo inaweza kutupata. Wakati mwingine tunailaumu Serikali lakini kwa mfano pale kivukoni Likoni Ferry, kuna yale maboya ambayo yamewekwa kwenye ferry lakini...

wamejaribu kutumia boya. Je, yanafanya kazi? Ni wangapi wakirushiwa wana uwezo ya kuogelea?Siwezi kulaumu sana wenzetu ambao walisema kungekuwa na El Nino. Waswahili wanasema kuwa, heri kunyesha ujue panapovuja. Je, tuko tayari? Mswada huu umekuja wakati tunahitaji sana. Tunaomba pia Mwenyezi Mungu atujalie El Nino isitupate kabla hatujajiandaa. Je, ikitokea...

Sen. Karaba Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to join other Members of the Senate in appreciating Nandi County. Nandi County is setting the pace and I would like other counties to emulate them. There are many counties suffering from the same problem but it is only that for fear...

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Sen. Karaba Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also take this opportunity to welcome the delegations from Turkana, Vihiga, West Pokot and Nyamira counties. I am sure that we did a lot of induction to them. I can assure you that they are now qualified to do what they have learnt...

Sen. Karaba Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is being said here is that there are governors who have come up with their own armies.

Sen. Karaba Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Adan is advising what is supposed to be done in a normal situation. However, there are some governors in this country who have their own guards for their own protection. No one else can hire them even if you are a Member of...

Sen. Karaba Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reason is that we are all concerned about these Bills. As the Chairman of the Committee on Education, I have heard the same kind of mistreatment in the name of presentation of Bills in this House. You realize that when a Bill is...

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Sen. Karaba On a point of order, Mr. Speaker. Sir. This Statement is very important to some of us because the El Nino rains might start tomorrow or the day after. When we talk of issuing the Statement in the next two or three weeks, the rains will have overtaken...

Sen. Karaba Sen. Karaba, do you want to be informed? [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Ongoro) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Murkomen) took the Chair]

Sen. Karaba, do you want to be informed? Sen. Karaba Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I do not mind. Let us hear it.

Except your last comments, the rest are okay. Sen. Karaba Thank you for that information, Sen. Wako. That time he was the Attorney-General (AG) and we have a lot of respect for him and the Office of the Attorney-General (AG) . He was the legal advisor of Government on what...

Sen. Hassan Omar Hassan.

Shukran sana, Bw. Spika wa Muda, kwa nafasi hii. Ninafikiri kwa vile jana tulianza na tabia ya kuzungumza Kiswahili kidogo mpaka leo, bado naona ile lugha ya Kiswahili iko katika gia. Mwanzo kabisa ninataka kukushukuru Kamati yako akiwa Naibu wa Mwenyekiti Seneta Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., na mawakili wakubwa katika Seneti...

ABw. Spika wa Muda, wale ambao walioleta hikii kiungo kinachoitwa Seneti, malengo yao ni kwamba katika mpangilio wowote wa ugatuzi, lazima kuwe na kiungo ambacho kinaweza kulinda ugatuzi. Na sisi hapa tunaambiwa leo kwamba sisi kama Jumba la Seneti, malengo yetu makubwa ni kulinda ugatuzi. Bw. Spika wa Muda, leo...

A na kuweka neno ‘constituency’. Sisi ni watu na akili zetu, na tunajua kwamba tunalo jukumu la kulinda ugatuzi na lazima pia tulinde Katiba yetu. [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Murkomen) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Ongoro) took the Chair] October 14, 2015 SENATE DEBATES

A utoto. Sisi tunataka kuleta uzalendo kwa kuimarisha uwezo wa Seneti. Nilimsikia ndugu yangu, Sen. Murkomen, akisema kwamba wengi wetu hatutakuwa hapa baada ya uchaguzi ujao. Wengi wetu tukakuwa magavana. Kwa hivyo, ingekuwa sisi ni watu ambao mioyo zetu hazijakinai, hatungepigania mageuzi haya bali tungetaka maisha yaendelee vivi hivi. Kwa...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank the Mover of this Motion and the Seconder for a very well researched presentation this afternoon. A lot has been said. As Sen. (Eng.) Muriuki said, devolution is working. When you go out there, you will find a number of people who appreciate what the...

A country is run well. It is the responsibility of Senators who are here, whom I have a lot of respect for, to make sure that this Senate brings this country together for the sake of the future. It should not allow it to be viewed otherwise.In every country, the...

Madam Temporary Speaker, like those who have come before me, I am proud of the Committee. I thank the House for having suggested that I sit in the Committee. I am aware that today, we are marking a time when Members of the Committee are celebrating the sweat of their...

A necessarily within the term of the President in office but beyond, a more stable decision making body like the Senate, should be involved.For purposes of forming a Government, the President wants to make a quick confirmation of the kind of Cabinet Secretaries and Principal Secretaries that he can work...

A pretend, Kenyans. When you put there a ward administrator he is doing what the chiefs are doing. The village administrators are doing what the assistant chiefs are doing. What the former District Officer (DO) was doing, is what the sub-county administrator is doing. Let us get rid of the...

A Kshs40,000 when a Senator who sweats to be elected gets a sitting allowance of Kshs5,000. I am not in the game of competing for resources but we just want to rationalize.Finally, and this is the most difficult; I know Sen. Njoroge will kill me tonight. I am persuaded that...

Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Sen. Lesuuda is on a point of order. We will hold your time. Proceed, Sen. Lesuuda.

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would not have loved to interrupt Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale but is he in order to mislead this House and the country that having the Nominated MCAs, Senators or MPs; that we were not fulfilling a mandate in the Constitution on issues...

Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, expound.

Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg Sen. Lesuuda to understand that---

I will allow the point of order from Sen. Njoroge. We are holding your time, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale.

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is the Senator for Kakamega whom I really respect in order to insinuate that Nominated Members of this House and especially ones with disability do not add any value to this House as he does when he represents Kakamega County? How many...

Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, respond to those interventions.

Madam Temporary Speaker, I am persuaded that, indeed, I am in order because during debate, a Senator is expected to advance his thinking to persuade the other Senators to agree with him or her. I am in order to that extent. However, if you do not agree with me, you...

AIn elections you cannot give what you do not have. So, when you purport that you want to give a position in an elective process, you must always remember that you do not have it. The person who has that position is the voter. So, if the voter chooses to...

Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, you are getting out of order. You are not answering the issues as presented very soberly by the two Senators. They are asking you to elaborate why you are trying to imply that it is the Nominated Senators whose presence is costing the Government and if they...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I thought that is the obvious. The fact that they are there is obvious because it is provided for in the Constitution but I am now talking about the Kenya of the future. We want to sort out these things once and for all. If there is...

Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, Cabinet Secretaries are not nominated. They are appointed because they are qualified to occupy those offices. You are still not addressing the issues that are being raised. Your clarification is now implying that we go back to the former system where the Committee of Experts found it...

Madam Temporary Speaker, let me put it in the bigger picture. People who compete for elections must demonstrate to the youth and persons with disabilities that when they get into office, they will address their concerns. We may run away from it but the truth is that our elective positions...

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On a point of order, Madam, Temporary Speaker. I am really disturbed. Does it mean that representation of women, persons with disability and the youth is not a matter of national interest in this country? Is Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale implying that this institution known as Parliament is not supposed to...

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am fully aware that those are the opinions of Sen. (Dr) Khalwale but, I would like to raise one issue on whether he is in order to mislead this House in all the other representation areas he has talked about reducing...

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it in order that a long serving legislator who knows the roles and the rules of this country to mislead the House? The Constitution of Kenya is very clear on party nominations. So, is he in order? He is telling us...

Thank you. Let me answer Sen. Kittony first. It is the Constitution that we are trying to amend for it to suit our situation and I am giving my thoughts. Sen. Njoroge said that people living with disabilities cannot win an election. I want to inform him that hon. Timothy...

Order, Senator! The last intervention from Sen. Njoroge and we will have to conclude with the Senator.

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Is it in order for the Senator to continue misleading the nation through this House? Sen (Dr.) Khalwale has this kind of a feeling that among the seats to be scrapped so that the country can really improve its economic status; what...

A affirmative action, it was as a result of Kenyans of likeminded as Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Is he in order to mislead this nation?

I think with all due respect, you are now over burdening me with your own opinion. The Temporary Speaker (

Order! Senator that is not unparliamentarily language. He is in order because he rose on a point of order and I granted it. You need to respond to the specific issue that he is rising. He is not overburdening you; you have a responsibility towards this House and towards Kenyans...

Madam Temporary Speaker, because I am addressing the nation. I want the nation to know that I am advancing my opinion and the opinion of those as many as they are who think that we should address the issue of the cost of maintaining the administrative structure under the new...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I join my colleagues in thanking and congratulating the Senate Select Committee on Constitutional and Legal Review that came up with this Report. It is just two years since we elected office bearers after the Constitution came into effect. We remember that this Constitution was...

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