ICHUNG’WAH ANTONY KIMANI

THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 120 (1) (c) , this House resolves to reduce the publication period of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries 5th March 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 8 to a day. Hon. Speaker, this was agreed by the House Business Committee, and is part of...

Hon. Speaker, there is really nothing out of order. I just wanted to seek your guidance on account of that vote. This Bill having emanated from the Senate, it is bound to go into mediation. I do not know whether it would be in order for the Chairperson of the...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Section 15 (1) (a) (ii) of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act, 2017 and Standing Order 175 (3) , this House approves the appointment of the following Members to the Powers and Privileges...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of the Standing Orders 175 (3) and 212B, this House approves the appointment of the following Members to the Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities — (Applause) 5th March 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 12 committees actively.Therefore,...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, further to the resolution of the House on Thursday, 27th October 2022 appointing Members into various Committees and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 173, this House further approves the appointment of Hon. Paul Abuor, MP, to replace Hon....

Yes. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report on the Consideration of the 2024 Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy. Hon. Speaker, allow me to begin by thanking…. Hon. Members, those who wish to contribute to this Motion should remember that in a Procedural Motion on limitation of debate,...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. In principle, I support the Petition but vehemently oppose the mode proposed by Hon. Gatobu, who is a former Member of this House. In his Petition, he is proposing the unthinkable, just like governors imagined just a few weeks ago and proposed to change the...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. 29th February 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 9 Leader of Majority Party? Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are a House of record. I just took the liberty to have a glimpse of the statement sought by Hon. Clive. I want to agree with Hon....

(Hon. Opiyo Wandayi spoke off record)Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was saying that the Statement averred that the National Police Service dispatched officers, including the late Inspector Walter Yamato, to the Republic of Haiti despite a High Court order. The person seeking the Statement, Hon. Clive, knows for a...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give the following Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee, which met on Tuesday, 27th February 2024, to prioritise business for consideration during the week. With regard to business scheduled...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Leader of the Majority Party? Hon. Temporary Speaker, indulge me. I request that we reorder business appearing as Order No.9 to appear as Order No.10, and Order No.10 to appear as Order No.9. The reason for that is that I want Senate...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hear what you have said. Actually, I was going to take that tangent – that, this is purely an administrative matter. The Board that the Cabinet Secretary is in charge of is the one that disburses money. When money is being disbursed, it must be...

Hon. Speaker, you can see the challenges we had even at the beginning of the House. Several Committee Chairpersons and Members are sitting for the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) .

Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give the following Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee, which met on Tuesday, 20th February 2024 to prioritise business for consideration during the coming week. As Members are aware, this week, the...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for that guidance. As you have rightly said, it is true that we did not conclusively give a way forward in NADCO on the two-thirds gender rule because principally, there was no broad agreement between the various stakeholders on the issue of the two-thirds gender rule....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. It is only fair that you put the Question on this matter because what Hon. Nyikal has said is geared towards reducing the amount that is collectable with no justification at all. We completely disagree with the justification he has given. It does not make...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, why we are lost on the Member for Githunguri's amendment is that Clause 9 talks about the monies that will be paid into the Fund. Clause 4 is the one that spoke about what she is speaking about: the Levy, and that Clause has already passed. Therefore,...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I rise to support this particular amendment. You saw university students appear before the Committee during public participation. I see the Hon. Ariko, who is a Member of the Committee, remembers. One of the challenges that have been with our students in urban centres is lack of...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I rise to oppose the amendment. Hon. Pukose said that we have already collected the Levy and the money is going into a fund that is also allocating funds to other implementing agencies, including county governments. How will we use the NHC to give money to counties...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. We support this amendment. As Hon. Haro has said, it is just inserting the word ‘where applicable’ to take care of our Muslim brothers and sisters who usually do not pay interest on loans but have loan repayments. That is why we are using the...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, allow me to support this. This Schedule now caters for many issues that some Members raised during the Second Reading, especially, on the Kenya Slum Upgrading programmes. Members also questioned the role of the county governments under this programme. Now county governments can access money from this...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I rise to support this amendment. As it has been said by the Chairperson, it now brings into the fold the institutional housing. Since I had prosecuted the case for institutional housing, I would only have wished the Departmental Committee on Housing, Urban Planning and...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee in the said report. I also request Hon. Betty Maina to second the Motion for agreement with the report of the Committee of the whole House. (Laughter)

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Affordable Housing Bill (National Assembly Bill No.75 of 2023) be now read a Third Time. Before I call Hon. Hilary to second, allow me to take this opportunity to thank all these Members, including all those seated on the Minority Party...

On a point of order.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am constrained but to agree with the Member for Buuri and Hon. Junet, indeed, there is absolutely nothing wrong with the county governments licensing bars. This particular incident in Kirinyaga – maybe the Chairperson is not aware – is that police officers have already been...

Hon. Speaker, this matter was, indeed, canvassed and you made a very reasoned ruling and directed that if anybody desires to amend the memorandum or my storyline of what the Bill is all about, they are at liberty to do so when it comes to the Third Reading. Hon. Speaker,...

Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give the following Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee (HBC) which met on Tuesday, 13th February 2024 to prioritise business for consideration during the week. This was our first meeting this Session...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was checking whether the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee is in the House because in most instances... I know, for instance, the case about the Public Financial Management (PFM) Act. It will have some implications. Being a Money Bill, the proposal will usually...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon Junet is my good friend, and I know his wife. (Laughter) 15th February 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 4 Committee that you designated to handle this Bill did very good work. It did extensive public participation in line with the Constitution. I, therefore, ask that you...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I agree with the Leader of the Minority Party to a large extent. There is no doubt that this Bill concerns counties. The courts have already held that before the First Reading, there is no need for concurrence on whether a Bill concerns counties or not....

Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for that guidance. Indeed, the Memorandum is just that, a memorandum. It is a storyline that tells you what the Bill is about.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move that the Affordable Housing Bill (National Assembly Bill No.75 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. Hon. Speaker, for the comfort of Hon. Junet, I will repeat that this Bill concerns counties and if approved by the House, it will find...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Asante sana, Mhe. Spika wa Muda. Hoja yangu ya nidhamu ni kwamba hapa bungeni ni lazima tuongee tunavyo sema kwa lugha ya kimombo with relevance. Yani tuongee mambo yanayohusu Mswada ulio mbele yetu. Nimemskia Mhe. Zamzam akiongea kuhusu Fuel Levy. Sijui Fuel Levy ina uhusiano gani na Mswada ulio mbele...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not want to interrupt Hon. Injendi, but you can hear the laughter that is coming from Hon. Atandi. He is laughing like someone in a bar not in the House. He is disrupting everybody; we cannot even...

It is ‘Kiamburi’ Slums. 15th February 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 36 Kiamburi Slums. Thank you, Leader of the Majority Party. I will be very happy to hear that the people who live in the Kiamburi Slums will be dignified and given these houses in the most affordable way for them....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Nyikal has invited me by referring to what I said about public participation. But clearly, he has not read the outcome of that public participation in the Committee’s Report. All the issues he is speaking to, like eligibility, are proposed amendments by the Committee. This includes...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I have listened to both Hon. Yusuf and yourself. However, what you have said is not clear because the Chair, Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs is not… Have you directed that the Chair avails a formal statement or that Hon. Yusuf does a formal statement...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on Bills sponsored by a Committee, the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on Bills not sponsored by a Committee, the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on any Motion, including a Special Motion be limited in the following manner: A maximum of three hours with...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in debate on Reports of Audit Committees be limited as follows: A maximum of 60 minutes for the mover in moving and...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: 14th February 2024 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 6 orders that each speech in a debate on other Committee reports, including a Report of a Joint Committee of the Houses of Parliament or any other report submitted to the...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, noting that Standing Order 24 (6) provides that debate on a Motion on the Address by the President shall be limited to not more than four sitting days, and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 28, this House approves the Calendar of the National Assembly (Regular Sessions) for the Third Session (2024) as contained in the Schedule to the Order Paper. SCHEDULE CALENDAR OF THE NATIONAL...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, I take this opportunity to say happy new year to all Members and welcome them back to the House this good year, 2024. As you indicated, I pray that the House will always quorate just like this afternoon. As you noted today, even Hon. Junet...

Asante Mhe. Spika wa Muda. Ninataka nijiunge na Wabunge wengine kuchangia hili jambo la Barabara ya kutoka Jitoni kwenda Rabai katika Wadi ya Jomvu Kuu, Eneo Bunge la Jomvu. Hii Barabara naielewa kwa sababu inashikanisha Jomvu na Kilifi. Nilikuwa pamoja na aliyekua Naibu wa Rais, ambaye hivi sasa ndiye Rais...

Hoja ya nidhamu, Mhe. Naibu Spika. Hoja yangu ya nidhamu ni kwamba Mwenyekiti wa Kamati ya Miundo Msingi na Barabara, anadai kwamba Waziri hakuwa na haki ya kusema alivyosema jana. Ilhali anajua kwamba hakujileta hapa. Aliagizwa aje kujibu swali ambalo Mbunge wa Kathiani, Mhe. Robert Mbui alikuwa ameuliza. Tulikuwa tukifuatilia...

Hana nidhamu.