Nyikal Wambura James

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I also support. Honestly, it is ridiculous that we ever thought to tax transportation since the fuel used is already taxed. Maybe I was asleep when that was passed. On mosquitoes, anything that helps reduce the cost of healthcare should be exempt. I support the...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, as I support these amendments, the issue of regulation has come up. Why is a flow metre necessary? Why would you use methanol if you can use ethanol? Is there a regulatory function that has been neglected forcing us to solve it through taxation? We might only...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, what we are listening to is a very major policy issue. When the Finance Bill comes to us, it follows the budget. After the budget has been read and we know we are going to raise this much revenue, the Finance Bill is the mechanism for raising...

Yes, Hon. Speaker, we will give a response in two weeks.

Hon. Speaker, I wish to respond to a request for Statement by Hon. Mark Mwenje regarding the shortage of polio and Bacillus Calmette- Guerin (BCG) vaccines in the country. Hon. Mark Mwenje sought to know the immediate measures the Ministry of Health is taking to address the current shortage of...

Hon. Speaker, although that is not specifically indicated in the response, I had discussed it with the Ministry and they have done that. If children miss the vaccines, they are encouraged to visit the clinics once the vaccines are available. Hon. Speaker, I have a brief story. My domestic worker...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to ask that we stand down this Order. The last time we had it, it was agreed that we had to harmonise a number of clauses. I was given the task to harmonise between the proposer and Hon. Kaluma who brought many amendments....

Yes, Hon. Speaker. I am also aware of this. I made the same inquiry. We will get it on Tuesday. I will make an effort to contact the Cabinet Secretary and get the report on Tuesday. Understood.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I think we need, at least, two weeks. I know the complexity of the issues involved. Therefore, we should be able to get a result within, at least, two weeks.

Hon. Chairlady, whereas I do not oppose, I think in future, even on this Vote, we should have the programmes. An amount in excess of Ksh8 billion is a lot of money. We need to know what is being done. “State House Affairs” alone is not adequate explanation to the...

Some of those health centres are being set up by the National Government to support the county governments in the form of Levels 2 and 3 health facilities. Many of them were established as presidential directives and so, we faced the dilemma of whether or not to stop projects that...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Primary Healthcare Fund comes under the broader financing of Social Health Authority (SHA) . There are two Funds: Emergency and critical cares which have not had an allocation before. This time we have allocated them Ksh10 billion. The Primary Healthcare Fund has, for the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill because it addresses the biggest gap in our agricultural industry. Extension workers are actually the feet with which the industry moves. Whatever policies and whatever strategies we put in place to improve agriculture, the only level and cadre that...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to start by appreciating the Chairperson and Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for how they have conducted the whole process and interacted with the Chairpersons of Departmental Committees. I rise to support this Budget because it has considered the key areas...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to also eulogise the passing on of our great writer, Ngugi wa Thiong'o. His life epitomises the philosophical basis of life, the idealism that is associated with scholarship, and the ability to actually strive and go against all odds to fight...

Thank you. Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Motion. This report should be adopted basically for three simple reasons. One, our Constitution obliges us that once we are involved in an international treaty, it must be part of our laws. Therefore, it is important to ratify it. Two,...

We will get the response in under two weeks. Yes, I can do it next week.

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate that we at long last have the Social Protection Bill in place. We must decide on which Ministry or authority to implement it. This is not the first time we are having a Bill on social protection. The late governor of Bomet...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like the Committee to look at the deeper question relating to land. The problem is so much that the documents we use for land procedures and processes no longer look valid. When the Committee looks at this, can they look at documents like...

Yes. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we were to give a joint response to the request. Both our Committee and the Departmental Committee on Education sat with the Cabinet secretary. The Departmental Committee on Education was to take a lead on this. I do not see my colleague here. The actual report...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We have indeed consulted on this matter. This is an extremely complex Bill, which has undergone a winnowing process. However, many clauses still need further agreement on so that consideration of the Bill will be easier when we come back. We will be referring to...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: Reports of the Departmental Committee on Health on its Consideration of:

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Let me appreciate the detailed report that the Prime Cabinet Secretary has given us. My concern, however, is that when we have this policy that has been worked out for implementation, is it also associated with redistribution of staff, particularly teachers? This is because if you...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I rise to support this amendment. Social protection is important. Currently, there is much disconnect and duplication between what is happening at the national level and the county level. The amendment will create the required link and give provision for counties to look at ways...

I rise to support this because of the definition of social protection. To a large extent, when we talk of social protection, people see cash transfers. They do not realise that even health insurance, agricultural subsidy or school feeding programmes are social protection. There is need for co-operation but without...

When we are dealing with severely disabled persons, whom are we supporting? Is it the caregiver or the severely disabled person? I believe there is a clear definition in this Bill. We should make sure that a caregiver is defined in the procedure and regulations of this Bill. It should...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity. I rise to support this Bill. Social protection is one of the features that distinguishes human societies from animal societies. It is only human beings who, in their right mind who create programmes to protect the vulnerable. Animals do not. This is,...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We will give a report within the first week after recess. MEMBER’S GENERAL STATEMENT

Hon. Speaker, I wish to respond to a Request of Statement by Hon. Adan Keynan, CBS, MP, before the Departmental Committee on Health on the status of the Kala-azar outbreak in Wajir County. Hon. Members, I wish to bring to the attention of this House the current situation regarding the...

According to this Report, the Ministry has an epidemiology team to respond to emergencies. They responded to this case and started by training county health workers. They also purchased drugs, test kits and equipment needed to spray houses and the environment where people live. Those are the measures they have...