Raphael Bitta Sauti Wanjala

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) My dress, my choice.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Speaker, courts are arbiters. When they give orders or declarations, it is up to the institution to implement them. They are not debated. You have seen the ruling of the court.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) I want to debate, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Thank you for the first clarification, which we humbly understood and agreed with. But you have left out the second issue about the Leader of the Majority Party in the House.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Speaker, I know you understand the law. In this House, not all of us are lawyers or competent to critic the rulings of the Court. You have been in the Courts and you know that if anybody is in doubt of court orders, he...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Speaker, we have a procedure of withdrawing from coalitions. You do not write letters right, left and centre. We have a procedure on how to move out of our political parties. You have to resign and go back for a by-election. So, anybody purporting...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. It is true and without any doubt in my mind, that…

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) That is why I have always proposed that each of the 290 constituencies gets Ksh1 billion out of the Ksh700 billion that is allocated to the construction of roads. We can leave the balance to the leadership of the country to know where to allocate...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you for giving me the chance to contribute to this important Motion. I have served in Parliament since 1997 when you would come to Parliament and finish five years without doing anything in the constituency, apart from holding harambees. The salary for a Member...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) I withdraw. 5th December 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 48

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, after Millie Odhiambo, I am supposed to be the one who follows and you have “jumped” me.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Yes, Hon. Millie Odhiambo.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Yes.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Minority Whip. It is me who is supposed to be laying the Papers, but you have “jumped” me. (Laughter)

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Reports of the Committee on Implementation of the following:

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Third Report of the Select Committee on Implementation on the implementation status of reports on petitions and resolutions passed by the House, laid on the Table of the...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalang’i, ODM) Hon. Speaker, sorry, I have a cold. I want to agree with Mheshimiwa Omboko that there is unfairness by the Departmental Committee on Energy, the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure and the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We have only 290 constituencies in the country....

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. We are Members of Parliament in this Country. This is Parliament. People are not appointed because they come from specific constituencies or villages. They are appointed regionally because they are qualified Kenyans. The Member for...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Government wants a 100 per cent transition to high schools. You will find that it pays capitation for each student, but the teachers have added a levy of about Ksh6,000, Ksh10,000 or Ksh12,000 to buy the food that the students...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply and thank the Hon. Members for their contributions. The most important thing that I want to ask the Cabinet Secretaries and departmental heads, is that, when they do budgeting, they need to include some monies to...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. (Question put and agreed to)

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) On record, Hon. Temporary Speaker, exactly what you have directed. People with food should not be lining up at the President's home.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I withdraw. He should also withdraw. The Hon. Member should withdraw because he said that it is the Luhyas who are lining up there to get food. 5th November 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 20 (Laughter)

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, yes.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, if you did not see it, we saw it on your behalf. It was on public television.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) I want to inform the other Member.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Kajwang’. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to inform the Member, in broad daylight, with glaring media all over the country that, in December, all the people in Soy assembled at the President’s home in Sugoi. They were being given a loaf of...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, why should I apologise for the obvious? Kenyans saw it. They were lining up to get food in December. (Loud consultations)

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) First, I want to agree with the Member that Budalangi is a floods-prone area. We expected the President, who is the President of the whole country, to bring food to the people of Budalangi when people were getting that food in Sugoi. The people of...

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM) Hon. Speaker, as you have rightly said, we will take a vote. This House recognises three types of voting; namely, acclamation, 18th October 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 35 Hon. Raphael Wanjala (Budalangi, ODM)electronic and roll call. As I sit in this House, we are in...