Nominated Senator Veronica Maina has put three of her Senate initiatives at the centre of her legislative record, with proposals seeking to protect farmers from poor returns, strengthen inheritance rights and push for tougher action on the country’s road deaths.
Speaking during a Radio Generation interview on Thursday, Maina said her work in Parliament had focused on issues affecting ordinary Kenyans, particularly families and groups facing difficulties in securing their livelihoods and rights.
Among the measures she has sponsored is the Agriculture Produce (Minimum Guaranteed Returns) Bill, Senate Bills No. 17 of 2025, which seeks to create a legal framework allowing county governments to guarantee farmers a minimum return on selected agricultural produce.
Maina moved the Bill for Second Reading in February 2026 and said it is designed to give farmers more stable incomes while protecting them from sharp changes in market prices.
She said the proposal would also help farmers who suffer crop failures or find that market prices fall below the cost of producing their crops.
“I have proposed a legislation on minimum guaranteed returns for farmers, so that small-scale farmers can be supported by the county governments when the crop fails, or the market doesn't meet the price, the commodity price, or the production costs of what they are farming on their farms.”
The proposal comes against years of concerns over unstable farm prices and losses suffered by producers when they are unable to recover their costs.
During debate in the Senate, Maina said the proposed law would give farmers greater certainty over their earnings and make it easier for them to plan for and repay agricultural loans.
Her second major proposal is the Law of Succession (Amendment) Bill, Senate Bills No. 20 of 2023, which seeks to bring succession law into line with the Marriage Act and the Matrimonial Property Act.
The Bill also seeks to improve gender equality in inheritance and provide stronger safeguards for surviving spouses and children.
Among its proposals are clearer protections for adopted children and children born outside marriage, while also strengthening measures against the unlawful handling of property belonging to a deceased person.
The amendments would address “intermeddling” with an estate, including taking possession of, disposing of or using property without the required legal authority.
Maina said the changes were driven in part by cases where widows and their children risk losing property after the death of a husband to relatives seeking to take control of the estate.
“I've proposed changes to Law Succession Act to protect widows and the estates of widows. Initially, that got defeated because of putting in children born out of wedlock. But I've returned the amendment. Got defeated by one vote. I've returned the amendments with a bit of revisions, hoping that now it is the light of day.”
The proposed amendments would also seek to address differences in how widows and widowers are treated in provisions concerning remarriage, while ensuring children are treated equally in succession matters.
Maina’s third initiative focuses on road safety. She has sponsored a Motion seeking the Declaration of Road Traffic Accidents in Kenya as a National Disaster.
The Senator said giving road crashes national disaster status would place greater attention on road safety measures and emergency response, with the aim of reducing deaths and injuries.
“I've also done a motion on road traffic accidents being declared as a national disaster, so that we focus more and reduce the number of fatalities on our roads.”
The motion points to road traffic injuries as a leading cause of death among adolescents and adults in their economically productive years.
Parliamentary documents cited in the motion state that more than 4,400 people died while over 17,000 others were injured in road crashes in 2025. Nearly 400 people were also killed in road accidents in January 2026 alone.
Maina said the three initiatives reflect her effort to use legislation and parliamentary motions to respond to problems affecting Kenyan households, farmers and road users.
Beyond her legislative agenda, the nominated Senator also urged political leaders to lower the temperature of political debate as the country heads towards the 2027 General Election.
She called on both government and opposition leaders to moderate their language and urged the National Cohesion and Integration Commission to take stronger action against inflammatory remarks.
“But we must all tone down, and I'm saying we tone down both from the government side and from the opposition side. Kenyans, by the way, we are very, very tired.”
Maina said Kenyans should be left free to exercise their constitutional right to elect leaders of their choice, without political leaders trying to dictate how voting blocs should act or using divisive rhetoric to heighten tensions.