Samson Kiprotich Cherargei

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkeybecause, so far, 10 years down the line Kenyans are still struggling to access water, good roads, Early Childhood Development Education (ECDE) and bursaries.The only bedevilling thing to these county governments has been the exponential growth of corruption and yet the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) continues to do...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Speaker, Sir, on the contents of speech under Standing Orders No.101, 105 and 98, is the Senator of Marsabit County in order to try to use this House to cleanse himself from the allegations that he has Kshs2 billion? Is it fair? Can he at least be...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am the last one in the trenches. I will be very faithful in usage of time but, of course, still achieve the intended purpose of why we are here. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank you for your indulgence. I have waited for...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me go first, so that I do not lose my train of thought, then allow my colleagues to also ask their questions. Cabinet Secretary, on Page 14, you indicated that you have paid 50 per cent to Junior Secondary Schools. However, in response...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Standing Orders provide me with two extra---

Sen. Cherarkey I will make it one.

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Education the following Question-

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, although Standing Order No.51 (c) allows us to ask two supplementary questions, I will ask one for the comfort of my colleagues. I have done my due diligence and I would like to inform Waziri that vitu kwa ground ni different. There are 43...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister for Education the following Question-

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, in the interest of time, I will need your guidance on Question No. 40 maybe later if I can request that Question to be deferred to a later date or we take written submission, because my interest is on this question. Finally, I will...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have heard your ruling. However, I request that you give us your considered opinion because we will be facing challenges of independent commissions like the National Gender and Equality Commission (NGEC) , the Kenya National Commission on Human Rights (KNCHR) and the TSC....

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I can cede to my colleagues.

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. 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 alleged malpractices and exploitation of Kenyans by Watu Credit. In the Statement, the Committee should -

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I commend our counterpart Committee on CPISFC. This Session is the first time that we have separated the CPISFC and the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) . I have two observations on the running of the water companies, most of which...

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I rise to support the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.16 of 2023) . It has to go on record that for the different occasions when the ceiling of public debt was being raised on the...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you know the dominant language of Sen. Faki is Kiswahili. Some of us are speaking Queens English, but I just meant courts of law. I do not doubt that Sen. Faki is conversant in both languages. However, my prowess and the grasp of English...

Sen. Cherarkey On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Speaker, Sir, the dictionary meaning of the word ‘regime’ is authoritarian. (Loud consultations) The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) Order, Members! Sen. Cherarkey, I gave you the Floor to make comments on the Petition. Sen. Cherarkey I am making comments. The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) Proceed. Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Speaker,...

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Sen. CherarkeyCommittee on Finance and Budget to sometimes invoke Article 225, where counties have not used money in a transparent way.I said here and I will say it again without fear of contradiction, that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is the biggest impediment in the fight against corruption in...

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Sen. Cherarkey(Applause) The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) Hon. Senators, let us stop this henpecking exercise on these figures. This is the position, the Bill that went to the President for assent is a Bill of Parliament. This is because it was processed in both Houses of Parliament. Upon being assented to,...

I thank you, Mr, Speaker, Sir. What I know is that I am required to comply with the Standing Orders in my debate. I have stated matters of fact. If you are uncomfortable with the facts, that is your funeral. However, I must state the facts as I know them....

No. Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am addressing you because I do not want to address the people who are in discomfort. The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) Sen. Sifuna, just stick to your comments. (Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Cherarkey consulted loudly) Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale and Sen. Cherarkey, allow Sen. Sifuna to...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, if there is an unparliamentary word that I have used, you need to point it out. I am just--- (Sen. (Dr) Khalwale spoke off record)

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Order, Senators. Sen. Cherarkey, when your colleagues are speaking, it is good to pay attention so that when you rise on a point of order, you rise on the speech that they have made. I do not know how your point of order is warranted as far as...

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey(Loud consultations) August 2, 2023 SENATE DEBATES 31

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Sen. Tabitha Mutinda, you can resume the Floor. (Resumption of debate on Motion)

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you Sen. Tabitha Mutinda. Proceed, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale.

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am well guided. I would like to start with the Statement by the Chairperson of the Committee on Lands, Environment and Natural Resources. The Senate Majority Leader indicated that Standing Order No.56 is not a report card. The Statement under this Standing...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether I will table my phone because it is in my phone. A total of 305 police officers were seriously injured, one police officer killed, 158 police vehicles destroyed, nine police stations destroyed, 850 shops and businesses broken into, 199 buildings...

Sen. Cherargei Hon. Members kindly let us resume our seats.

Sen. Cherargei Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Employment (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 11 of 2022) be now read a Third Time. I request Sen. Wambua to second.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I second. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to)

I now call upon the Mover. Sen. Cherargei Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Employment (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No. 11 of 2022) be now read a Third Time. I request Sen. Wambua to second. August 1, 2023 SENATE DEBATES 36

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Sen. Cherarkey What is your point of order, Sen. Oketch Gicheru?

Sen. Cherarkey Sen. Oketch Gicheru was not in the House. He was not even a political leader then. So, there is no way he could have had influence to warrant that. Kindly do not drug Sen. Oketch Gicheru into that.

Sen. Cherarkey Proceed, Sen. Sifuna.

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Sen. Cherargei

Sen. Cherargei Madam Temporary Speaker, I have followed all processes in expressing my challenges or dissatisfaction on each and every matter that I have mentioned here to the extent that I have decided to now stand under Standing Order No.58 to give a Personal Statement. Concerning impersonation in my office,...

Thank you, Sen. Cherargei. We were on Statements. Let us have the Chairperson of the Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, Sen. Murgor. ACTIVITIES OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE ON LABOUR AND SOCIAL WELFARE

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Madam Temporary Speaker, if you have heard, the Senior Counsel title was an addition because he was the Chairperson of Law Society of Kenya (LSK) . I inform him that I have been attending CLE seminars. I do not know what he means because all lawyers attend CLE...

Sen. Cherarkey Sen. Oketch Gicheru is not a lawyer, why would he be interested in this matter?

Sen. Cherarkey Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know what is wrong with Sen. Oketch Gicheru since he came back. I have been excusing him because he is recovering. We do not know whether it is because of the illegal demonstrations. However, you heard Sen. Omogeni discussing me and I...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I am embarrassed on behalf of lawyers in this country that it takes a medical doctor to correct a lawyer on who is not a senior counsel. These are things that Sen. Cherarkey, whom I worked hard on to ensure he is admitted to the bar the...

Sen. Cherarkey Sen. Cherarkey, we have a point of order from Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale.

Sen. Cherarkey Sorry.

Sen. Cherarkey Madam Temporary Speaker, Standing Order No. 105 on responsibility for statement of fact. Could the Senator for Nandi help me here? When you ask me to go and sit in this board that is playing the executive role of administering funds, how will I oversight myself when I...

Sen. Cherarkey There is a point of information. Do you wish to be informed by Sen. Ali Roba?

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Sen Cherarkey Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I also rise to support but with a rider that I hope the chair who has moved this Bill will agree that we enrich the contents with some ideas which will make it more useful to the people who reside in our counties....

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Sen. Cherarkey

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 52 (1) to make a Statement on issue of general topical concern and national importance, namely Faith Kipyegon attaining a hat-trick of world records inside seven weeks by shattering the one-mile world record in Monaco. Mr....

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to request that at the end of the presentation by the Senate Standing Committee on Health, you can allow us to make a few comments before proceeding to the Next Order.

Sen. Cherarkey Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will proceed to make comments on the Statements made under Standing Order 56 (1) (b) . I am surprised that the three statements by the Chairpersons have been mere reports. When you read Standing Order 56--- It is good the Senate Majority...

Sen. Cherarkey Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, as we proceed, I request your guidance and direction. Order No.19 is the Prevention of Livestock and Produce Theft Bill (Senate Bills No.12 of 2023) , which the owner is yours truly. I need your guidance because when the Bill went to the Committee...