Duncan Maina Mathenge

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following paper on the Table: Report of the Mediation Committee on the Coffee Bill (Senate Bill No.10 of

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113 (2) of the Constitution and Standing Order 150 (3) , this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Coffee Bill (Senate Bill...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The debate in our country now, is on the affordability of healthcare, ability of Government agencies in the healthcare sectors like the Social Health Authority (SHA) and the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) to pay for health...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I may be a bit disadvantaged because both Hon. (Dr) Oundo, yourself and Hon. Marianne, the Vice-Chairperson who has moved this Committee Report, are more senior Members. However, I am sure that, as a member of the Committee, once...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health and I support this Bill, but I have some reservations. This Bill does not go far enough in dealing with the issues surrounding maternal and newborn health. As we...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to pose one question to the Cabinet Secretary on free and compulsory basic education. Is he aware that the school feeding programme has become a barrier to the achievement and delivery of free and compulsory basic education...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary has to be very categorical on this issue. One, is it the Ministry’s position that any head teacher who sends a child home on account of the parent not having paid for lunch money is violating the policy,...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Report by this Committee. It is sad that some of the institutions that we see being audited here include the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council that is responsible for the affairs of Kenyans suffering from HIV...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) I have one more question, Hon. Temporary Speaker, on teachers' salaries and promotions. The Ministry, through the TSC, regraded some job groups. Unlike what we have seen in the past, some job groups were merged, resulting in the stagnation of teachers under Job Group...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have heard the Cabinet Secretary say that they have not had funds for infrastructure, but this year, they got some money. The Ministry is running a program known as the Expansion of Infrastructure under the Secondary School Education...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Jane Kagiri. Besides being the Member for Nyeri Town Constituency, I am also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Coffee Caucus. Coffee is one of the key export earners...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to add my voice by saying pole to the families that lost their loved ones because of the demonstrations yesterday. Yesterday was a sad day for Nyeri. This nation must have its leadership and citizens rising up to...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Budget. However, I must dissuade some of the Members of this august House from deciding that because I come from Mt Kenya region now, I am guilty of what my forefathers did. At...

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Hon. Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary is treading on dangerous grounds. He has asserted that the TSC is an independent Commission. It is not under the direction of anybody, including the Ministry. Yet, he has answered Questions that are under the mandate of the TSC....

Hon. Duncan Mathenge (Nyeri Town, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to start by acknowledging that in our country, the formation of coalitions occur pre-and-post- election. Therefore, the determination of this case would only have benefited the Azimio Coalition if the courts had made their determination urgently, as the...