Methu John Muhia

Sen. MethuThe officers arrived in Kisii at 12:55 p.m. Working backward, the distance from Nairobi to Kisii is 307 kilometres. If they indeed left Nairobi after being satisfied, unless these letters were being processed before the Government offices officially opened, this timeline raises concerns.I understand that Government offices open at...

Sen. Methu, do not engage your colleagues. Just proceed. Sen. Methu Mr. Speaker, Sir, they drove all the way to Kisii. According to the IG of Police, they arrived at 1255 hours. This already shows that the evidence has been deconstructed. It is not original and does not present a...

Sen. Methu Order, Hon. Senators. One, let me just direct you. I will not take any points of order. We have just suspended the Sitting. Therefore, we are here not strictly enforcing the Standing Orders. Allow the Hon. Senator to proceed. You have made a basis for your question, proceed...

Order, Hon. Senators. One, let me just direct you. I will not take any points of order. We have just suspended the Sitting. Therefore, we are here not strictly enforcing the Standing Orders. Allow the Hon. Senator to proceed. You have made a basis for your question, proceed to ask...

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Sen. Methu IG of Police, you have two minutes, DCI, two minutes and IPOA, two minutes then we will conclude. The Inspector General of the National Police Service (Mr. Douglas Kanja) : Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. A question has been asked on who my key suspects are....

Sen. Methu Sen. Issa Boy.

Sen. Methu Sen. Methu, you can inform Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale.

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The Senator of Nyandarua County has corrected me that I should never call him my son. In fact, I will not call him my son again until he shaves his beard and combs his hair for him to look young, which is his correct age. (Laughter)

Order, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Can you finish your debate? Your time is actually up.

Sen. Methuthat doctor that a person died, the only thing we can do is reprimand or caution. If we are to take adverse step in punishing this doctor, then he should be asked to go back to school. It should not about taking account of what they have done already....

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May 28, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 46 Sen. Methu Every time patients and their families are told to negotiate directly with the hospital, they are the ones who often lose, not the hospital. The hospital will argue that they did their best, that they provided the highest standard of medical care,...

Thank you, Sen. Methu. Let us now have Sen. Hamida. I hope you are not seated in that seat. Serjeant-at-Arms, you noticed that her seat malfunctioned and made her fall. You should have reacted faster. If that happens next time, the response time should reduce. She was down for a...

Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate Minority Leader is insisting that I should go to the Dispatch Box. Thank you for your concern. Amen! Madam Temporary Speaker, today, I feel honoured by this Petition and how my colleagues have contributed. This is a Petition that I read here and it was...

thoracotomy. Forgive my pronunciation because those are foreign words to me. I know Dr. Khalwale understands them well. Those procedures performed to remove the injected foreign bodies were not done properly. It could be that that mess was messy such that the medical equipment was non-functional.There is a time I...

Sen. Methu Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to draw your attention to Standing Order No.101 (6) . I did not want to interrupt Sen. Catherine Muma, but she keeps referring to some person as Eddy, and I can see our Standing Orders provide that a Senator...

Sen. Methu Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just to inform Sen. Karen because she has mentioned Githaiga wa Chai and has said that I must be knowing him. For sure I know him and I met him today at a place where we were launching a party. He is a member...

Sen. MethuSo the monies going to the County Government of Nyamira, be it the County Executive or the County Assembly, the CoB must say, “I am satisfied 100 percent that these withdrawals that are happening at the county level fund are backed by the law.”It is a very defeated argument...

Sen. Methu Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on a matter of national concern regarding the allocation and utilisation of public funds amounting to Kshs1.3 billion disbursed from the...

Sen. Methuwork. This could not have come at a better time, other than the time when Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) is being rolled out.The CBC as a model of education is also the best thing that happened to this country. We have spent time and many years as a country...

Sen. Methu Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to reply to this Motion. From the onset, I would like to take this opportunity to thank every Senator who contributed to this Motion. To be precise, this Motion has been spoken to by 17 senators, including myself. Out of...

Sen. Veronica, I request that you follow the same trend, so that Sen. Mandago also gets a chance to speak.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to debate this very important Motion that has been brought to the Senate by our colleague, Sen. Karungo Thang’wa. You may have noticed that all the Senators who May 8, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 53

have debated this Motion are very passionate about the decision that may be arrived at at the end.I am confident that many of the Senators who have spoken on this issue have received their education through public institutions. The majority of them, like myself, come from the village, with the...

Madam Temporary Speaker, looking at legislation around the best interest of a child weighed against politics of the day, as a House, let us accept to have the best interest of a child. We should put the funds in a pool and send them to the schools. Let every child...

Proceed, Sen. Mandago.

Thank you very much, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to speak on this Motion. Let me start by saying that I am in support of this Motion proposing to consolidate all the bursaries and make sure that we have free, compulsory and accessible primary and secondary education. This Motion...

work. This could not have come at a better time, other than the time when Competency Based Curriculum (CBC) is being rolled out.The CBC as a model of education is also the best thing that happened to this country. We have spent time and many years as a country learning...

The Mover may reply.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to reply to this Motion. From the onset, I would like to take this opportunity to thank every Senator who contributed to this Motion. To be precise, this Motion has been spoken to by 17 senators, including myself. Out of the 17...

I said a Member of Parliament is disbursing an average of Kshs50 million per constituency. With 290 constituencies, that is about Kshs14.5 billion. Women Representatives are giving between Kshs10 million to Kshs15 million per county. That is about Kshs705 million. Governors are giving up to Kshs500 million per county. If...

It does not mean that the mama mboga who is paying for that education or able to pay that education is better off than the other mama mboga who is spending all the time at the MP’s or the governor's office looking for money. That tells you that if we...

Hon. Senators, it is now 6.42 p.m. Having concluded the business for which I extended the hours of sitting pursuant to Standing Order No.34 (2A) , the Senate stands adjourned until Tuesday, 13th May, 2025 at

Sen. Methu Thank you very much, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. It is my first time to address the House from this side. I firmly confirm that I am still on that side, so that I can rock the boat from within. April 10, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 1 (Laughter) (Loud consultations)

Sen. Methu I wish they could listen to this. It is extremely important. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.52 (1) to make a Statement on a matter of international and national concern, the recognition of World Autism Awareness Day marked annually on the 2nd of April and to further...

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Sen. Methu Thank you, Hon. Speaker, Sir. This is a Statement on an issue of national concern. TRIBUTE TO THE LATE HON. J.M. KARIUKI ON THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS DEATH March 20, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 6 Sen. MethuHon. Speaker, Sir, J.M. Kariuki's advocacy for the common Mwananchi shook the...

Sen. Methu Mr. Speaker, Sir, I seek your indulgence because I have four statements. I would like to read them at a go.

Sen. Methu Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a request for a statement on inequitable distribution of fertilizer by the National Cereals and Produce Board. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a statement from the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries regarding the inequitable...

Sen. Methu Thank you for your protection, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I see my colleagues are excited that I am now very busy. I am no longer a Chairman, so I have a lot of time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a statement...