Silvanus Osoro Onyiego

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, is the Member in order to impute improper motive on the President-elect of the United States of America, the 45th and the 47th President - President Trump, elected by the majority, and has won all the seats at all levels? Is...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am unlucky because my Kisii accent will not allow me to speak like Hon. Millie. I want to join my colleagues, Hon. Millie and Hon. Irene Mayaka, in congratulating the good lady, Hon. Momanyi for winning her seat....

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) On a point of order.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also want to join the Leader of the Minority Party and the Leader of the Majority Party in commending and appreciating the judgement that was made by the highest bench — the Supreme Court — regarding...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to second. (Question proposed)

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also want to air my views in support of the Motion as proposed by Hon. Kiarie John. There is a misconception that innovation is a preserve of the people from the West. At times, a good innovation in...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Let me conclude, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We need to keep encouraging Hon. Kamala and many other women not to use the gender card in selling their policies. There are too many policies you can sell to the public for you to be elected other...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) No, I am just saying this because I have talked to her and she is really down. That is why I am saying there is such connection of emotional transfer, which is very magnetic. To the family, the great people of Bonchari Constituency, Hon....

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I join the people of Bonchari Constituency, the larger Gusii region, Hon. Donya and Hon. Onchoke, in condoling with the family of the Hon. Zebedeo Opore. Just about 30 years or so ago, Bonchari Constituency and South...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) No. Sorry, he left in 2017, making it three terms. It is a great loss for Kisii. If you remember about a month ago, we were again in this House mourning another great son of the soil, the Hon. Ogari, who passed-on almost in...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am holding brief for the substantive Leader of the Majority Party for his usual Thursday Statement. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give the following Statement on behalf of the...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) My apologies, Hon. Melly. I really did not mean to undermine the great County of Nandi. What I meant is that it is a county found in the remote areas of this country, but not a city. It does very well in athletics. The...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I hope Hon. (Dr) Pukose will take judicial notice of the fact that my first girlfriend hailed from Nandi County and I found their village very remote when I was visiting that area then. I also want...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I hope the Chairman will be back in a short while but if he is not, I commit to whip him to come and respond promptly.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Speaker. In the absence of the Chairman and any Member of the Committee, I make an undertaking that the Member will get a response once we resume from recess.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I commit to whip the Chairperson of the relevant Committee. With my push, I promise that we will get the answer once we resume from recess. This will be about two weeks from now.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am just holding brief for the Chairperson. I do not want to make a commitment to Hon Kamene that I will not deliver. Please, allow me to push the Member to respond in two weeks’ time. It is not a...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was concluding my comments on the good work that the Mediation Committee has done. I agree with Hon. Jared Okello that there is nothing much that can be done about the mediated version of this Bill....

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I join the Members who have spoken before me in congratulating the Mediation Committee for the very good work it has done on the Water (Amendment) Bill. It is important for Members to appreciate that the particular...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. While I appreciate the proposed amendment by Hon. Sam Atandi, I propose that we adjourn its consideration because the Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation is not in today, so that it can be considered when...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Senate amendments to the Food and Feed Safety Control Coordination Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.21 of 2023) , be now considered. I thank the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock for its consideration of the...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This is one of the Bills that has also found its way in this House quite timely. The question of subsidiary legislation has over the years been misused and abused because of that slight lacuna that really...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to appreciate the Members for unanimously supporting the Motion on the Senate Amendments to the Food and Feed Safety Control Coordination Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.21 of 2023) . It is, indeed, an opportune time....

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. At the outset, I want to state that I support this Motion entirely without proposing to put a comma or full stop on any ground that has been placed here. I want to remind the Hon. Members that...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I refer the Hon. Member to pages 16 to 30 of this very Motion that was tabled in this House, and these are facts. I have also said that on this particular matter, the threshold is two-thirds, and we are also working...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Exactly, out of the Monica Lewinsky matter. Of course, it was overturned later by the courts and other issues, but I am saying it was 8th October 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 53 Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA)out of that scandal. The very small...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I had to make this very special request, which is again unprecedented in this House, to welcome very special guests to me. Mr. Moenga Onchweri picked me from the streets and took me to school upon the...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) and notwithstanding the Resolution of the House of 14th February 2024, this House orders that each speech in a...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I also seek your guidance and indulgence on the notice of Motion that has just been tabled here today. We all agree that post 2010 Constitution, this is unprecedented. As much as it happened years back, this is very new, post 2010...

Hon. Silvanus Osoro (South Mugirango, UDA) Thank you.