OMONDI CAROLI

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I also have deep interests in Migori. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute. I am wondering why the broad-based Government brigade is not asking for a bypass for Migori Town. We plan to give them one sometime next year, when Linda Mwananchi takes over....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, with your guidance, may I, on behalf of the broad-based Government brigade who are quiet, ask that the Government immediately take the necessary action to design and implement a bypass road network for Migori Town?

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is out of order? Hon. Temporary Speaker, under Standing Order 1, we have an obligation to only proceed with matters that are constitutional. I rise under that particular Standing Order to draw the attention of the House to Article 119 of...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is very unfair. We sit here for four hours waiting to debate this and then you want to take it away from us. I rise under Standing Order 35 and draw your attention to the fact that there is no quorum in the House. (A Member...

I said: “I rise under Standing Order 35 to draw your attention to the fact that there is no quorum in the House”. No, that is fine. And I said: “You have to respect us. We are not stupid”. That is what I said. Get The Hansard. (Loud consultations)

Hon. Temporary Speaker, just check the record. I did not say that. I stated, "we are not". I did not refer to the Speaker or the House. We have been sitting here all afternoon. If you insist that I withdraw the word "stupid", I have done so. You cannot lament...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I did not say the Speaker is stupid or the Members are stupid. I said, “We are not stupid,” meaning those of us who are on this side. That is what I said, and The Hansard will bear me out. In any event, I already withdrew the...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have no problem withdrawing those words, and I have no problem apologising to the Temporary Speaker and to the Members because. As far as I know, what I said was, “we are not stupid”. However, if that is what you recorded, I withdraw and apologise. Nonetheless,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I do not have a particular amendment to this clause, but I wish to ask the Chairperson why they have not considered it necessary to include a representative of the Ministry responsible for environmental conservation as a member of the Board under Clause 10. One of the...

I support Hon. Millie Odhiambo on this issue. Although we have not reached there yet, I have looked at the use of funds collected under the proposed Fish Levy Trust Fund. If you read all provisions, none captures what she is saying which is making credit facilities available to artisanal...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I want to request some indulgence from the Committee Chair so that he can explain to us whether… I am struggling with the Bill. I cannot see certain provisions regarding county governments vis-à-vis the BMUs. One of the biggest challenges they face in...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, respectfully, I do not think they do, because one deals with fisheries management. Fisheries management is simply fisheries management. It involves fishing, protecting the estuaries, and processing fish. It has nothing to do with sanitation or health facilities. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Peter Kaluma) : No, I...

Yes, we are talking about facilities, Chair. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Peter Kaluma) : Yes, Hon. Ruth Odinga.

My apologies, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was on a call with one of my constituents with ventricular heart problem. He was just updating me on his progress. Member for Suba South, you know we have many rooms for that here. My apologies. It was an emergency. I do not want...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I just want us to be alive to the parliamentary calendar so that the question does not go beyond this session. We are still in session all the way to December. We are going for a break, are we not? Yes, we have a recess but two...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What we are witnessing here is the long list of examples of poor planning in this Administration. A Government that is very good in promises and short on delivery that exhibits unprecedented confusion, impulsive expenditure, and limited transparency and accountability. We have before...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, he is my friend, but he is not learned. The solution being offered is as bad as the problem itself. Wise men have told us before that life under a good government is rarely dramatic, but life under a bad government is always so. We have been...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is an attached Schedule to the Bill. The Ksh200 million allocated to the Office of the Deputy President…

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank the Leader of the Majority Party for those wise words. Unfortunately, he has set a bad precedent himself in this House. He spends a lot of time addressing imaginary enemies and wasting our time. I was looking at the breakdown of allocations in the Schedule....

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was the top constitutional lawyer in my class. Let me remind the House…

Hon. Temporary Speaker, our Constitution places all security agencies under civilian oversight of this House. Section 23 of our Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act clearly states that all documents, whether from the NIS or the military, are to be brought to this House for scrutiny. What I am doing is...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the interruptions continue but I am still soldiering on. Let me strongly oppose this Supplementary Budget for the reasons I have stated. I have given the example of the Talanta Stadium, where a whopping Ksh42 billion is being spent without a tender and without sufficient public scrutiny....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, is the Leader of the Majority Party in order to make such reckless statements? He has said that he ensured the money for the construction of the road was allocated in the Budget. He has also said that he would ensure that money is allocated for something...

Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak on this matter. Hon. Members, we are dealing with a piece of legislation that has its roots, not just in the colonial period, but way far back because of religious influence and lack of advanced knowledge...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I want to urge the National Treasury and the Budget and Appropriations Committee to expedite the release of resources to the IEBC for it to procure the Integrated Election Management System in time, so that we can test the technology and have confidence in it....

Hon. Temporary Chairman, under our Constitution, this is the office charged with keeping our books and records. It also ensures integrity in our financial systems, yet it has been consistently underfunded for many years. The Office of the Auditor-General is understaffed and not fully supported. Sometimes, it is subjected to...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I think as a House governed by law, we should be very careful as to how we expend money especially on issues to do with the Budget. I am happy the Leader of the Majority Party has come, because I am aware that he sent a memo...

Let me finish. I only hope that this particular expenditure is not covered in this Budget. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : What is out of order? Let me hear from Hon. Ichung’wah.

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I am ready to table the documents. (Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah spoke off the record) The office rent has been set at 3,000. Staff emoluments…Order. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : Order.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am raising this issue so that this House gives the country an assurance that such illegality is not committed. Because the Leaders of the Majority and Minority parties are already provided for offices. If they want extra offices, the political parties that nominated them are already...

Hon. Speaker, is it in order for the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Health to mislead the House and the nation by stating that in these two Agreements, which I have here and which I have read, there is a clause that provides for the establishment of an isolation...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Hon Caroli Omondi, what is your point of order? Hon. Speaker, I just want to inform Hon. Melly that all we have been discussing is the hardware, but we have the software, which I did present successfully before his Committee. The Education Laws...

Hon. Speaker, for the benefit of the general public, and pursuant to Article 35 of the Constitution and Section 23 of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act, could we also request the Cabinet Secretary to bring to the House all relevant agreements and subsequent protocols regarding the country’s co-operation with...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I would like to start by acknowledging that under Article 1 of our Constitution, sovereign power rests with the people. This sovereign power is then distributed among the three arms of Government and other subsidiary organs. Thus, even...

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to warmly welcome the new Member, and to congratulate him. I just have a small point of information that I would like to share with him which I invite him to follow up on. On behalf of the Departmental...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to speak on this important matter. A very clear proof that Kenya is doing something wrong in the management of its petroleum imports is the fact that our fuel prices are outliers within the region. This is despite Kenya enjoying...

The Hon. Member is out of order to mislead not just the House but the nation. He has explained that the closure of Kenya Petroleum Refineries Limited has led to a rise in fuel prices in Kenya. It is the opposite. In Kenya, when we had the KPRL, we were...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, give me a little more time. As you know, I am the only one in this House who still runs half a marathon every three days and a full marathon in every quarter of the year. Therefore, I know the pain. I am very happy to pay...

No, Sir. I have a matter of great interest that has delayed in this House extensively. We have not reached Statements yet. Hold your horses. We will get there. Thank you.

Hon. Speaker, I raised this and I request the Leader of the Majority Party pays attention. Member for Kikuyu and Leader of the Majority Party, please, pay attention. I requested a Statement from the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury on the leasing of the sugar mills over 6 or...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What we are discussing is a failure of both this Government and the previous ones. Even this discussion, I thought, would attract representatives from the other communities who are affected. But as you can see, it is only representatives from one side of...