OMONDI CAROLI

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I just want to point out two points.

Okay. I do not know how to phrase it, but I would be happy.

Yes, Hon. Speaker. On 27th September 2023, you directed the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to write to me and explain the efforts made by the National Treasury to recover and protect the nucleus estate of Miwani Sugar Company, particularly LR No.7545/3, which is about 11,000 hectares. I believe...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will try to be brief. Let me begin by acknowledging the commendable effort towards providing social protection for the vulnerable members of our society. I am aware that this forms part of the conditionalities agreed upon with the Bretton Woods institutions. Samahani,...

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I just want to make a small suggestion. I did not know the late, Hon. Koech. However, we should have a tradition in this House that when we want to honour a Member who has passed away, we invite part of his family to...

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to congratulate Hon. Bwire for the bold step of bringing the people of Pare ancestry to the National Assembly. Our job as leaders is to find solutions. That is why we are here. We can ventilate as much as we...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I pointed out in the morning that the measure of poverty is called the foot poverty line, which calculates what the nutrition or food energy requirements are per person. It is weighed against the actual food expenditure of a household or a person and then we...

Thank you and sorry for that rude interruption. He wanted to oust…

Hon. Speaker, therefore, the categorisation under Section 28 may not be accurate. Somebody could be an orphan, but he is not below the poverty line. You could be an old person, but you are not below the poverty line. You could be a person with disability, but you are not...

I thought I had keyed it in. Thank you very much Hon. Temporary Speaker. It gives me great pleasure to comment on our proposed Sessional Paper on the Foreign Policy of the Republic of Kenya, 2025. I think this is the second one. The first one was published in 2014....

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I wish to draw the attention of the House to Article 210 of the Constitution of Kenya. For the ease of Members, it says: Hon. Caroli. Yes.

In view of the inconsistency with the Constitution, we should not only step it down but also withdraw it and bring a new one.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I just want to add one or two points to this important issue affecting wheat farmers not just in Narok, but also the rest of the country. I also want to briefly talk about the sugar sector. There is no off-take of home-grown...

Suba South. Member for Suba South. Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will also try and be very brief. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Atandi where he is calling upon this House to resolve that the national Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. What we are discussing is an element of what is called the ‘gig economy,’ where individuals on a freelance basis or side hustle engage in certain activities. They are not in formal employment...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, looking at the category of youths engaged in this gig economy, the legal framework we are going to propose should exempt them from paying income tax and instead impose a corporate tax on the technology companies. This is because if we treat them as workers, they will...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I invite Members to pay very keen attention to the Budget Policy Statement with respect to the NG-CDF. The reduction of NG-CDF allocation is at Ksh38 billion. So, what we are discussing is just a tip of the iceberg. We...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on the NADCO Report and its recommendations. I note with a lot of gratitude that majority of the proposed amendments have been rejected. The first time I went through this Report, I learned with horror that there was...

They are saying: “It was the Committee’s Hon. Caroli, I will give you more time on this. I want you to read paragraph 88 in page 17. It says: “The Bill proposes to amend Articles 97 and 98 of the Constitution. New clauses are inserted to provide that where after...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. So that I make progress on the other clauses, I will leave it here. It will suffer the same fate as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) . Correct. Allow him three more minutes. Yes. It will suffer the same fate as the BBI. Secondly, I...

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I will add on what Hon. Millie said on taking the war to them. One score and two years ago when we were writing the new Constitution, the original proposal was to have 14 counties plus Nairobi. Counties were...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me begin by clarifying to the world that, in spite of Hon. Oundo’s sentiment that probably Hon. Ndindi Nyoro and I are probably serial inheritors, we are serial monogamists. I have no problem with widowed women remarrying, but just do not call...