Only 1.4 percent of persons with disabilities have been employed in the public sector. This is according to the Cabinet Secretary for Labour and Social Protection Florence Bore.

CS Bore who appeared before the Senate on Wednesday morning to answer questions from Senators to the House, said that the 1.4 percent covered Constitutional Commissions and Independent Offices, Ministries and State Departments, Public Universities, Statutory Commissions and Authorities, State Corporations and SAGAs and TVETs excluding persons with disabilities working in County Governments.

𝐖𝐞𝐝𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐝𝐚𝐲, 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎, 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟑

Nandi Senator Samson Cherarkey, is seeking a Statement from standing Committee on Roads, Transport and Housing on the omission of construction of six interchanges on the Nairobi’s Western Bypass.

Senate Joint Committees on Lands, Security, National Cohesion and Legal Affairs today met with the National Steering Committee (NSC) on Peace Building and Conflict Management Chaired by retired Lieutenant General Daniel Opande to deliberate on the review of Kenya’s Peace Building Architecture.

Senate Committee on Trade, Industrialization and Tourism held a meeting today to consider Ministerial Responses on Statements requested by Sen. David Wakoli and Sen. Prof. Tom Ojienda, SC.

The Bungoma County Senator had requested to know the management structure of the Metropolitan National Sacco Ltd, listing all branches of the Sacco in the country; details of officials of the Sacco at national level; and when the Annual General Meeting of the Sacco was last held tabling the minutes of the meeting. 

The County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) has called on the Officers serving in the Office of the Auditor General (OAG) to be proactive and reorient their operations to be of value to county entities while carrying out auditing.

The Committee argues that the current adversarial approach in auditing must be abandoned and a more friendly tact adopted if the auditing process is to of value and meaningful to public finance management.