MUTUA, DIDMUS WEKESA BARASA

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. From the very beginning, I support the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill. The proposed amendment to the Children Act seeks to enable the courts to allow an application by a man to adopt a child. You understand that...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Looking at the Members who have contributed to this Motion, they are in support. It is a clear indication that the Chair of Budget and Appropriations and his team did a very good job. It is, therefore, against this background that I implore on you...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill in this country. For the first time I agree that Kenya, as a country, is progressing. I say so because, since the inception of devolution in this country, the...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Looking at the Members who have contributed to this Motion, they are in support. It is a clear indication that the Chair of Budget and Appropriations and his team did a very good job. It is, therefore, against this background that I implore on you...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill in this country. For the first time I agree that Kenya, as a country, is progressing. I say so because, since the inception of devolution in this country, the...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I want to be very clear. First, this is a very good idea that the Public Petitions Committee can leverage on and improve. There is nothing that should not be regulated. When people were misusing Facebook, the founders...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this very important…

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this very important Bill. At the outset, allow me to say that I support this Bill. This is a very important Bill because it is going to create jobs for...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have a very simple question. By the time this company was applying for registration, it was evident that other 9th August 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 15 Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA)governments were cracking them down. Why did the Government of...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am 100 per cent sure that that Question was properly answered unless the Member has just come into the House. There are other matters on the Order Paper. From your communication, the Cabinet Secretary has done very well. We...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me an opportunity to move the Pensions (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.44 of 2022) . The object of this Bill is to amend the Pensions Act, Cap 189 so that we can provide a timeline upon...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Pensions (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.44 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. Is that fine?

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, the essence of my Amendment is to put to an end the suffering that many Kenyans have gone through. I persuade the House that when an individual contributes to a pension scheme, that money does not belong to the pension scheme but...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to appreciate you and thank the Members who have supported this Bill overwhelmingly and for working with me to put an end the untold suffering that many Kenyans go through after they have retired. I also take this opportunity to...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The Petitioner raises very pertinent issues that need to be looked into. As the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, we are ready to work with the Public Petitions Committee to have this matter resolved. There...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to laud the efforts being spearheaded by the competent Member of Parliament for Matungulu who has used the better part of the last three weeks trying to see how we are going to combat TB menace. I...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to wade into this matter. As we proceed, we have to be aware of what is factual. We had armed young men who entered a mortuary in Kisumu Town, threw in bodies of dead people...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I said, and I repeat; that, the aim of this Motion is to intimidate the Inspector-General of the National Police Service. I ask him not to be intimidated by this Motion. Kenyans are with him. He must protect properties and the lives...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, looking at the content of the Motion, it has statistics that are not proven. When you debate a Motion, you do so in a language that will package your facts in the manner you want them packaged. This Motion was brought here...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Speaker, while I support this Petition, it is also very important that we relook at the laws that govern public participation. Is it just ticking boxes, or do you consider the contributions that the people make? We also need to expand and ensure that...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Before I reply, I will donate two minutes to Hon. Sloya, the Member for Sabatia, and another two minutes to Hon. Babu Owino and then I will conclude.

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to respond to the debate on the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.42 of 2022) . This Bill seeks to compel the Ministry of Health and health facilities to develop a referral system that will ensure that a person...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to make it very clear that I support this Bill. This Bill will be improved further in the Committee of the Whole House. I have gone through the Report of the Departmental Committee on...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, we have always contributed to Committee on Supply by pressing the intervention button. So, pressing the intervention button does not mean one is on a point of order. We just want to contribute. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Noted. I...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. Even as I support the allocation of this money to Parliamentary Affairs, I hope that the holders of this office are going to make good use of this House. They need to engage us more specifically on what is coming...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I wish to support and commend the Committee for scaling down this amount of money. The previous allocations were very big, going to billions of shillings. We are aware that there were very few Cabinet meetings that were being conducted....

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you. I support and hope that even the Ministry will move further to ensure that standards are met. Some Governors are putting up very funny buildings and calling them clinics. We should have standards on what qualifies to be called a clinic. In some...

Hon. Didmus Barasa (Kimilili, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. If you go through the reports by the Auditor-General, you cannot doubt any single word. Even as we all agree that NG-CDF has done a very good job across this country, some of the audit queries...