OUNDO, WILBERFORCE OJIAMBO

Again, as my colleague mwalimu raised issues, exactly what kind of report are we envisaging? What we have here and what the country has does not lead anywhere. What kind of report are we envisaging to be submitted to the county assembly? What is the county assembly expected to do...

I totally concur or agree with the Committee. At times, county governments overreach themselves. The small departments in counties, which are without value to the lives of the people should not be involved in very complicated matters like these ones. Once it has gotten to the county, the small departments...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When I hear the story of Moi University, my heart bleeds. I left the University of Nairobi to come here. We had challenges but we managed to weather the storm. It also happens that my second born graduated from Moi University before it got into...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Land Control Bill (National Assembly Bill No.39 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. For the record, this Bill was published in 2022. It was first read in February 2022, but as was the case, it lapsed due to the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to sincerely thank Hon. Wangwe for following up through with this Bill. It is a stage which seems to be like the end of the long journey. The collapse of the sugarcane industry in totality has brought a lot of...

Under what Standing Order?

Yes, let me conclude. I give you two minutes to conclude then we will find out whether that is the mood of the House. It is good that Hon. Kiplagat has a mood meter that measures the mood of the House. I will conclude with the issue of the sugarcane...

Hon. Speaker, as it has been a practice since the beginning of this Parliament, when a cabinet secretary is invited to come and respond to questions and requests for statements, we always receive the response in advance so that we can read, interrogate and prepare to question the cabinet secretary....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. First of all, let me admit that I am not an expert in ICT. When the first mobile telephone calls came to this country, I was already working. I was mesmerised at how one could receive a call...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want him to listen carefully because this is a policy and business matter. I also totally agree with him. The speed at which we process the so-called Members' Bills in this Parliament is annoyingly slow. At times, people get discouraged and matters are overtaken by events....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would not want to complain. If I do, I can even sleep without food. Hon. Temporary Speaker, since Independence, we have had three critical goals: To reduce poverty, ignorance and diseases. Whether we have achieved that up to now is subject to debate and...

Allow me to complete. Order, Hon. Oundo. That will depend on whether you want to be informed. I am sure Dr. Gogo wants to inform Dr. Pukose... Hon. Oundo, do you want to be informed? Does she want to inform me or Dr. Pukose? To inform you. I do not...

That is why I wanted to tell Hon. (Dr) Pukose that we will present in the Committee of the Whole House and let the House decide. Hon. Temporary Speaker, on many occasions, I have had to accompany my Governor when he went to meet community health volunteers. Indeed, one of...

Thank you. As I wind up, we also probably need to tell the Senate that this National Assembly has people who can understand and read the Constitution and tie it up. So, we do not fight over things that do not belong to us, but we appreciate, and forward to...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I rise to request for a statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands regarding the status of the Register of Government Lands as provided for under the various land laws of Kenya. After...

I would also like to have your attention. I know you are multi-tasking but, please, give me a few seconds of your time. I want to continue from where my colleague left, but I do not want to lament, so to speak. Is there a way we can expedite the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the Kenyan National Library Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 20 of 2023) . I also want to put it on record, because I sat in the Twelfth Parliament, that we discussed and processed this Bill to its logical conclusion in the...

Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity. My attention is drawn to Article 125 of the Constitution, which makes reference to the effect that Parliament has got the same powers as the High Court. Out of that, I am left to look at the evidence presented by my good friend

Hon. Speaker, I thank my colleague, Mheshimiwa Tindi Mwale, for bringing this matter. He is being too elitist by only considering imported and high-value drugs. Where I come from, we have bhang or sativa, or whatever it is called. It is called cannabis sativa. Cannabis sativa. I am the most...

Hon. Speaker, can we get the attention of the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health? Hon. Pukose, Hon. (Dr) Oundo is craving for your attention. Hon. Speaker, yesterday afternoon, I read a Statement from the Ministry of Health concerning the rollover from NHIF to this new animal called SHIF...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is good to see my friend, the Hon. Cabinet Secretary, in the House today. He was the Majority Leader. He left me seated here and he will always find me here regardless of what Sir George thinks. I like his passion for the new...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. (Loud consultations)

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will make it very brief. I am shocked beyond belief. I am shocked that a Member of Parliament can come and stand here and justify the massive rip-off. Ksh104 billion just to run a system! To be honest, we beseech the Hon. Chairman. He is a...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security regarding the welfare of prison officers and other various reports including the Marsden Madoka Committee Report of 2008, the...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The Chair and Vice-Chair are not present in the House at the moment. I undertake, being a founder member of the Committee, to bring the Statement within two weeks. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just wish further clarification on the issue of listening to the Deputy President, and what follows thereafter, considering that the Motion must be dispensed off on the same particular day. There is a reasonable expectation that after being heard, whoever is hearing you is given...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. During the same Session, I represented Hon. David Ochieng’, in respect to a Question regarding abduction. Hon. Speaker, the question was insufficiently answered, and the Cabinet Secretary promised to provide additional information. The Chairperson should be kind enough to inform the House that the question was...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for this opportunity and I stand to commend or give my opinion on this Bill. I must give a lot of credit to my friend KJ who has made me understand technology. I remember when we were with him in South Korea, he would take...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I sincerely thank our colleagues who have stood in for us during this long odious battle to save the lives of the people of Kenya. I attended the judgement session on that Friday. We left with heavy legs and hearts....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute. Allow me to make my contribution from three points of view. The first one is that I am a consumer of coffee. I like drinking it. Secondly, I am a Kenyan. For many years, coffee was considered the...