Nelson Jack Wanami Wamboka

Hon. Wamboka Wanami (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I would like to congratulate the Cabinet Secretary. He is one of the hardworking cabinet secretaries. Asante, but please heed the advice from the Leader of the Majority Party not to spoil your soup. Mine is about the 22 per...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to give you a heads-up. A while ago, we talked about the young boys and girls who man our security in Parliament. You gave your undertaking, which we do not doubt, that all of them would be absorbed into...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) I apologise, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am sincerely sorry. That will not happen again. (Laughter)

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I thank Hon. Faith for this important Motion. I encourage her to put this into a Bill because it is very important. I am from a meeting with the Cabinet Secretary for Roads and Transport....

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Mau roads in Central Kenya are consuming 49.651 per cent of this year’s Budget. You must stop being selfish. (Applause) 11th June 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 35 Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K)but because of politics and economic pressure, the Standard Gauge...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Temporary Speaker, ignore him. Everyone knows it is a fact.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order, Hon. Chairlady.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Chairlady, the budget-making process is very important. It is not right for the Hon. Member to say that we need to go through it quickly. Even if we take a month, we must interrogate the Budget in detail. There is nothing wrong with Hon....

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) As much as we are appropriating these finances to the State Department of Correctional Services, one of the President’s advisors recently made a very dangerous statement – that, people are buying positions to get into the Kenya Prison Service. That is a very dangerous thing....

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. 3rd June 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 43 Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K)Firstly, let me sincerely thank the leadership of this institution, the National Assembly, starting from Hon. Speaker, the Clerk of the National Assembly, our Committee...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Murugara was not here when these issues were raised by Members. It is on that basis that I am clarifying that two Committees in the last Parliament reached a decision about this and up to now it has not been implemented. We are asking...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) I rise under Standing Order 35 to notify the House that we do not have quorum, yet we are dealing with very serious issues. I beg that we continue…

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Speaker, we want to reject these Amendments in totality.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Speaker, I beg to second. Bearing in mind the fiscal space in which the country is currently operating, it is abnormal for anyone to propose an upward adjustment of these allocations. Therefore, I second Hon. Ichung’wah’s Motion to reject this proposal. We reject it.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I think we are taking this matter lightly and that is why the governors are taking us lightly. Everyone in this Republic knows that governors handle a lot of money, yet nothing happens. In my own county, Bungoma we get...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) How about we postpone this matter to next week so that we organise ourselves with regard to numbers, especially on the Conflict of Interest Bill because it affects us? We are affected by the Bill, yet we were not prepared for this. Step this matter...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) I seek your guidance, Hon. Speaker. It looks like we are being ambushed.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order, Hon Speaker.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Chairlady, honestly you are being unfair. On a point of order, Hon. Chairlady. It is within my rights to bring a point of order.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order, Hon. Chairlady.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) I have just realised that our digital system and the televisions are not working very well. I am worried. Is The Hansard on? Is it just affecting screens or is it also affecting the voice? As you know, it is mandatory that The Hansard has...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) I do not know whether they are sabotaging me. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the third Report of the Public Investments Committee on Governance and Education on its Examination of the Reports of the Auditor-General on...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I just want to inform the Member for Tetu Constituency, who is a good friend of mine, that the reports of this House and recommendations of committees are not in vain. I want to confirm to him that in one of the...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) If I may expound on the issue of Kenyatta University a bit. I am sure you do not want to spoil my soup.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Hon. Deputy Speaker, Kenyatta University has spent a whopping Ksh600 million and you can hardly see anything beyond the foundation level. When we went there, we were asking where the project is. The Vice- Chancellor was just saying “here”. You could not see anything yet...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Chairperson of Public Investments Committee on Social Services, Administration and Agriculture, Hon. Wangwe, will concur with us that the issues we are dealing with are not easy, and you can clearly see that. As a Committee, we decided that...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) No. Let us proceed. Ukichoka, enda nyumbani.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Thank you, Hon. Speaker for inviting the Cabinet Secretary, who is also my friend. Bwana Cabinet Secretary, we already know most of the things you have said. Members have all that information. I have a few questions for you. The court said that you should...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K)

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) Yes, Hon. Speaker. In the spirit of decentralisation of funds, bearing in mind that the KeRRA roads affect the locals, we want your undertaking today.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) We hope you will give us that undertaking. Secondly, we want to know how much of the 22 per cent and the 10 per cent you have released to the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) and the regional offices. Third and most importantly, the word...

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) In difficult situations, you can use any language possible so that the Cabinet Secretary understands how I am putting my points across.

Hon. Wanami Wamboka (Bumula, DAP-K) My point is made.