Sifuna Edwin Watenya

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just wanted to intervene as a leader in this House and speak. We are in a WhatsApp group together. I do not want to say it here, but this problem has been created partly by our rules. We feel frustrated sometimes as Members that the...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would like to make brief comments on the statement that was brought by the Senator for Bomet, Sen. Wakili Hillary Sigei, regarding unpaid contractors. Just to inform this House that in the morning, we had a conversation with the Chairperson of the Council of Governors...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know this government likes long stories, but the devil is in the details. Hon. Cabinet Secretary, you have mentioned your project of the Bomas International Convention Complex (BICC) . I am sure he has heard the concerns of Kenyans and environmentalists in particular about the hiving...

No, just a minute, CS.

He has long stories about housing---

The Cabinet Secretary will not get away with this. We want answers to the concerns of the public, not just stories about housing.

Yes, but, Mr. Deputy Speaker, it came from his own response. I was around when Vision 2030 was prepared. I do not remember ---

Just a minute, Speaker. I do not remember the hiving off of Nairobi National Park being part of Vision 2030 for these projects. So, when he speaks about it, he should give us details. So, I am happy he has said that he will answer in two weeks, but let...

Waziri, we have had conversations with you in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) . My question is related to what Sen. Wambua has raised here. Your office is the one that originates the Disbursement Schedule which comes to this House. I think yesterday I saw a communication from the...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I think the frustration we have as a family of devolution and you can hear even the frustration of the public, is that we have serious problems in the counties, but we just seem to be talking and there is no action. What the Constitution speaks...

Again, Waziri, the problem I have with some of these responses is that they do not answer the question that has been asked by the Senator. I refer to the response to Question No.28 by Sen. Ojienda. The response at page five, for instance, when the Cabinet Secretary is addressing...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. You may remember that I was in Kivulini Grounds on Sunday. We had a very good time there as the Linda Mwananchi Brigade. I take this opportunity on behalf of your Senator, Sen. Karungo Thang’wa, who has just stepped out, to welcome you to the...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have also been waiting for Communication from your office about material that I submitted upon request that I substantiate. I wanted to get your direction because if you remember, I had requested the National Assembly to provide me with copies of the HANSARD of the proceedings...

Now, moving on to the issue pertaining to the Senator for Nandi County; hon. Senators, I have just told you exactly what had been tabled. The honorouble Senator has decided not to tell his colleagues exactly what he is tabling. However, I have taken the liberty to tell you what...

I second. (Question proposed)

Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have rearranged the Order Paper before the Order is read out. How is it being rearranged in the middle of the Order because there is a statement that has already been read? There are other statements that are pending to be read. There are only two...

That is in order, Chair, but just, traditionally, we have deferred the Order at the point of the comments and as one of the people who is supposed to marshal numbers, I do not think the Chairperson of the Committee of Finance and Budget wants to upset me because I...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm that the Nairobi delegation is much organised. I do not know about Meru. We are going to elections in under a year. Every time there is debate on this Floor and a vote is taken, people follow very keenly. There will be serious...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am getting hostile looks from the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget. He seems to hold the view that we should not debate this. Do not worry about the look. You are safe with the Chair. You may proceed to make your comments. Thank...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have rearranged the Order Paper before the Order is read out. How is it being rearranged in the middle of the Order because there is a statement that has already been read? There are other statements that are pending to be read. There are only two...

That is in order, Chair, but just, traditionally, we have deferred the Order at the point of the comments and as one of the people who is supposed to marshal numbers, I do not think the Chairperson of the Committee of Finance and Budget wants to upset me because I...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to confirm that the Nairobi delegation is much organised. I do not know about Meru. We are going to elections in under a year. Every time there is debate on this Floor and a vote is taken, people follow very keenly. There will be serious...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am getting hostile looks from the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget. He seems to hold the view that we should not debate this. Do not worry about the look. You are safe with the Chair. You may proceed to make your comments. Thank...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I remember when I used to be in the Senate Business Committee (SBC) , we had developed the practice of inviting a minimum of three cabinet secretaries, so that in the event one does not show up, at least another would. This increased the probability of us...

Sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir, to speak twice on the same issue. I have looked at the letter that she wrote. Other than the fact that it was received very late, I honestly do not believe that those reasons are sufficient because she says that--- There is no reason. Mr. Speaker,...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I second but just to say that the Senate Majority Leader, just the way we have rebuked the Cabinet Secretaries, it is also very unfair for colleagues to come to the House this morning and the owners of the business on the Order Paper are not here....

We gave another reason of the joint funding of national government programmes that counties are expected to finance, as mandatory obligations, including CAIPs, CHPs, FLLoCA and food systems resilience projects. We thought it would find favour with We gave another reason of the joint funding of national government programmes that...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I wanted it to sound ridiculous, so that it punches the conscience of Members of this House. It might not be every two weeks.

Let me not say every two weeks because I do not have that evidence.

I have withdrawn.

Madam Temporary Speaker, in the life of this Parliament, we have seen changes to the State House more than we have seen in the past 10 years. That is the point I was making. In fact, we were joking here in Parliament, but the Secretariat of the Senate do not...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, as a Member of this House, I am aware that the seat of the Speaker has many Members. I do not know how we can clarify which Member of the Speaker's Panel Sen. Khalwale saw in the chopper from his house. The current seat What is your...

You may proceed, Sen. Osotsi.

With your indulgence, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wanted to request that you change the order of the welcome, so that I can take the contributions to the Bill after the Senate Minority Leader is done.

Proceed, Sen. Sifuna. May the Senator be heard in silence, please? He is merely welcoming the students. (Loud consultations)

conversation that is on the Floor, people really like to digress. I am not going to mention anyone because you have been here and you have heard.(Resumption of debate on Bill) What is actually before debate this afternoon is a mediated version of the Food and Feed Safety Control Coordination...

Since she is insisting and she is from my political party, and she is a lady, I do not want to appear like I am not a gentleman. Let us hear what she has to say.

The students from Consolata will determine the value of that information, but it is helpful to know because I thought the information she was giving was with regards to the Bill or areas to do with the reason why our amendments were dropped, but it is fine.

I accept and acknowledge. I just want to conclude by saying that whereas the conversation even within the public now is what is going on with our schools, I visited a school in Makadara called Our Lady of Mercy. The things I learnt is that we also need to listen...

Our visitors by now have noticed that I am the most sabotaged Senator in this House. My equipment almost always never works. I take this opportunity, on behalf of the House, to welcome the team from KIRDI. Indeed, this morning, I had a conversation with my team about the place...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Education on a matter of national concern regarding the transition rate in the Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) in Kenya. While the CBC was introduced in line with Kenya's Vision 2030 and...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, first, I want to tell my brother, Sen. M. Kajwang’, that when you have an important function like a wedding, make sure that you get your own coat because you do not go to a wedding with somebody else’s coat. You can be told to remove it...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, that is a proper account of the happenings yesterday. It has turned out that the God that I serve works in mysterious ways. As we were having that debate, this House was not aware that in fact the Cabinet Secretary for Health had addressed the National...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, with your permission, I do hereby table a video recording of the proceedings of the National Assembly yesterday, Wednesday, 3rd June, 2026, and a letter to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr. Samuel Njoroge, CBS, requesting for the HANSARD of the said proceedings. (Sen. Sifuna laid...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for your indulgence to allow us to skim through some of the reports that the Committee has presented to the Floor of the House. In August 2023, I attempted to bring a Motion here, in this House, for the formation of an ad hoc committee...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will take a very different trajectory. The Constitution of this country guarantees every person the rights to life and to equal protection of the law. The responsibility to protect life and property in this country will never shift from the state.I disagree with my two sisters...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, first of all, I am happy that the Senator for Nandi agrees with me that the wicked are in power in this country. That was the first part. Secondly, it is a fact that there is a court order. It is also a fact that activities have...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, for clarity, previously when colleagues in this House have brought materials that needed to be played for the House, arrangements were not made, the way we make arrangements during impeachment proceedings for that media to be played. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to say it here. If...

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.120 on relevance. I do not see any relevance of your weekend tours to the statement that has been brought forward by the Senator for Tana River, that is Sen. Mungatana. Please, keep stories of the tours that have been done...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The subject of this Statement is a visit we had in Kisumu a few days ago.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope the French delegation and the children from Visa Oshwal notice that immediately my name is mentioned in this House, there is unnecessary ruckus. Everybody knows that I am a father; my daughter is nine years old. So, when a member of my delegation says,...

For a moment there, I thought the Speaker had forgotten that Kajiado neighbours and borders Nairobi. Many people from Kajiado call it the bedroom of Nairobi. I take this opportunity to welcome all the students who have come to visit us this afternoon. I wish them a good session here...