Mogeni Erick Okongo

Sen. Omogeni Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wanted to seek a clarification regarding the Communication that you had earlier made to the House touching on Sen. Gloria Orwoba. I wanted to bring it to the attention of your office--- The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) Sen. Omogeni, we are now on comments on...

Sen. Omogeni Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am also speaking on behalf of the farmers in my county. Of my four constituencies in Nyamira County, in three of them, there are farmers who grow and sell coffee. That is North Mugirango, West Mugirango and Kitutu. North Mugirango neighbours my good friend,...

Sen. Omogeni Surely, Mr. Speaker, Sir, if those four counties benefited, for equity, for fairness, let us also benefit this time around. I am pleading with the President, if he is watching me, let him also remember the farmers from Nyamira, Kisii and Kericho counties. At least the farmers in...

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogeni: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my comments on the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 10 of 2025) . This Bill basically implements Article 218 (2) (b) of the Constitution on sharing of revenues between the national and the...

The plan has always been that the train will have a stopover at Ikonge in North Mugirango. However, of late, we are hearing rumours that there is a plan to divert it to our neighbouring county and leave the people of Nyamira out.Madam Temporary Speaker, that region has coffee, tea...

Madam Temporary Speaker, this idea of having the young children to share toilets with their seniors in junior secondary schools is not right. I am pleading with our governors to make life bearable for the people in our counties and our children going to school. For the school feeding programme,...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my comments on the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bills No. 10 of 2025) . This Bill basically implements Article 218 (2) (b) of the Constitution on sharing of revenues between the national and the county governments...

Sen. Omogeniheard you make remarks about some judges. Maybe some orders were issued earlier, but regarding the impeachment, no stay orders were issued.Secondly, I heard you tell the Chair that he should proceed to Nyamira and deal with this matter. If you read the report tabled on page 29, the...

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogenipremises. If we allow that to happen, then it would have been better to remain with the constitution that preceded 2010.The Constitution of Kenya, 2010 was supposed to address impunity. What impunity can we talk of as a Senate, other than a situation where a county assembly holds sittings...

Sen. Omogeni Thank you, Mr Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also make my contribution to the statements issued by the respective chairpersons. However, there is one that has caught my attention. While contributing, I heard Sen. Cherarkey state that the approval of nominees to IEBC should be...

Sen. Omogenieulogize the late Pheroze Nowrojee who wrote articles. I think the last was penned last year.Madam Temporary Speaker, I am told from those articles, the newspapers pay Kshs100,000 per article. Now, if this thing is well regulated and you have somebody who is talented in penning articles to these...

Sen. Omogeni Sen. (Dr.) Oburu, you may proceed.

Sen. Omogeni Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise on a point of order. I have just perused through a report that has been tabled before the House by the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. It is a progress report on the operational and leadership crisis affecting the...

Sen. Omogeni Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker. I rise under Standing Order No.52 to seek further directions from the Office of the Speaker. On 1st April, 2025, I raised a Statement concerning the divisions within the County Assembly of Nyamira. After I brought that matter to the attention of the...

Sen. Omogeni

Sen. Omogeni

Mr. Deputy Speaker Sir, my colleague is merely playing to the gallery. He was actually with us in that meeting when we engaged with the Members. This Committee does not have jurisdiction to rule on matters that are before the court. Therefore, we are writing a report and seeking a...

Sen. Omogeni Sorry, Madam Temporary Speaker. I was reading. What is on my Statement reads, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations regarding the leadership and operational crisis currently affecting the County Assembly of...

Sen. Omogeni Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to contribute to two Statements. I would like to start with the one by Hon. Chute. As noted by the Senator of Marsabit County, there has been a lot of developments that have taken place in the counties, according to...

Sen. Omogeni Proceed.

Yes, I do not mind being informed, because this is a very important matter that I would wish to understand. Where do these two different factions sit, and why is it not possible to sit at the gazetted County Assembly of Nyamira? The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Mumma) You may proceed,...

Thank you. Madam Temporary Speaker. I am now properly informed, because you know, the last time I saw, I think April 1, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 32

there was a serious fight at the County Assembly, and I thought perhaps, maybe the official residence--- Then, if that is the case, this is a very simple matter. Why should the county assembly, the one that is properly moved and sits in the premises not consider any business from...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wanted to make a comment on the financial crisis at the Technical University of Kenya. In the Coast Province, we have very few public universities. The ones that are there, including the Technical University of Kenya in Mombasa, have served all the six counties...

The private universities that are there, are very expensive and people cannot afford them. People are not also able to pay for those fees and the requirements that are there. Then you find certain regions lacking in terms of the degree qualifications, Masters and even PhD qualifications.We would request that...

Sen. Omogeni Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the Statement by Sen. (Prof.) Tom Ojienda on the proposed 10 per cent land rate policy. At a time when Kenyans are already crying because of heavy taxation, our governors are increasing rates. If you have not received rates for...

Sen. Omogeni Sen. Boni, what is your point of order? [The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Wakili Sigei) in the Chair]

Sen. OmogeniSo, we need to make clear to Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale that, in India, what is in Article 368 of the Indian Constitution, at least going by the Supreme Court's ruling in the Supreme Court of India in 1973, in their Constitution, you cannot do any amendments touching on for...

Sen. OmogeniSo let us also try to incorporate digitization and technology in this Bill so that maybe we expand our cable network to our counties. From counties, it goes to sub-counties so that people in Osamaru Ward, in West Mugirango Constituency in Nyamira can be connected to the internet and...

Sen. Omogeni Sen. Boni should withdraw the remarks he made while concluding. You cannot say that you are “moving.”

Sen. Omogeni Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to also make a contribution to this important Bill - The Heritage and Museums Bill of 2023. The Swahili say that muacha mila ni mtumwa. If you have traveled around the world, you will realize that...