OUNDO, WILBERFORCE OJIAMBO

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Motion as presented here. I am not from Bungoma County and so, I will make general remarks concerning the observations laid on the Table and as moved by the Committee. I want to be very clear...

Hon. Chairlady, I am ready to withdraw the amendments. What is in the Order Paper is mischievous. It seems like a faulty process.

Hon. 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 Administration and Internal Security regarding facilitation of National Government Administrative Officers, specifically from Samia Sub-County. Hon. Speaker, Section (8) (2) of the...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to the Care and Protection of Child Parents, Bill (Senate Bill No. 29 of 2023) . First, I am a father of four girls and many other girls out there. When I got elected as a Member...

The intention is good and I can see where the drafter is coming from. Probably, he or she has grappled with cases of second chances, how kids would go back to school but, honestly speaking, this legislation ought not to have come here. It should have gone to the amendments...

Dr Makali Mulu knows the procedure and practice in this House. He needs to tell us what necessitated the changes; what it was before and what it is now. What has caused the changes? That is considering that this is a Money Bill whose process of moving amendments the Constitution,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I just want to note, and the country should equally know, that this Equalization Fund Appropriation (No.2) Bill (Senate Bill No.30 of 2023) Schedule seems to be revelling in tokenism. It is dropping small things here and there to be seen to be sharing the cake throughout...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As I stand here to support the report again, allow me to make two or three comments from the word go. Supplementary budgets, in whichever way, are a case of poor planning, lack of oversight, and imprudent management of public resources. A supplementary budget should...

Yes. I had been checking on the status. I was on top then lost my position all of a sudden. Go ahead. As a matter of principle, since I came here in the 12th Parliament, I have always had reservations about Miscellaneous (Amendment) Bills. They are miscellaneous but mischievous. The...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to say one or two words on the Senate amendments. I remember very well the acrimonious way we passed this Bill in this House in October last year when, together with other technical professionals in this field, we raised some...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to Second the Procedural Motion on reduction of the publication period for the Finance Bill, 2024. In this country, we have always had challenges with important Bills like the Finance Bill. It is never given adequate time to be subjected to public participation....

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We have already dispensed with the matter and so, I second.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, as we grapple with this amendment, I support. After every action, there must be a review but what next after the report is submitted to Parliament? Is it just for record purposes? If it is discovered that whoever won the election did not win rightly, used violent...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I want my colleague Hon. Murugara and the Chairperson to expound subclause 10 which reads as follows: “A person who, being responsible for the publication in the Gazette of the final report submitted under this subsection fails to publish the report within the time required by the...

Hon. Speaker, it is just a follow-up on Questions and Statements. Sorry to take you back. We seem to have a backlog of Questions directed to the Cabinet Secretaries to answer here. I have Questions from the other Session. I have resubmitted close to five or so to the Ministry...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I support the amendment. I want to draw the attention of the House and the country as a whole to the fact that one of the most important aspects of this amendment is to deal with double taxation. As one moves goods from one county to another....

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the amendment brings a very interesting case. Probably, the county governments will need to move with speed to designate a public notice board at the county, ward and village levels. Each village must have a formal notice board, where items advertisement of this nature will be pasted....

No. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : No. (Question, that the word to be left out be left out, put and agreed to) (Clause 14 as amended agreed to) Clause 15 The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Mover.

Let me speak as he is still looking for his microphone. Hon. Temporary Chairperson, the original Bill that came from the Senate had no mode of communication. In this regard, the Committee having listened to the members of the public, it became necessary to include the words “in writing.” The...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I also echo what my colleagues have stated. Basically, the argument presented by members of the public is that I can choose to start a business anytime of the year. I am not conditioned to start it in January or 1st July. Therefore, when I pay, that...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the beauty about legislation is that we keep improving the law. Two very important issues need to come out very clearly. Yes, the Bill is about uniform licensing. We want to dissuade people from believing the licence paid for a particular business in Busia will be the...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I am proud that the young first-term legislator has caught up well. He now understands the law-making process and is always keen to pick out the technical issues unlike others who talk on generalities. This is an adoptive Bill for counties to adopt as a best practice....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, let me send my sincere condolences, on my behalf and the people of Funyula businesses and everything they had.This is a natural disaster and a manifestation of climate change. In many parts of this country, we always thought that climate change was...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman, for giving me this opportunity. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Lands could probably give further clarifications on review of grants and dispositions now that we are removing any time limit. We would be interested to know if the National Land Commission itself has...

Hon. Temporary Chairperson, that is a progressive amendment and we need to support it. But let me go back to the gist of the amendments in totality. I am not so sure whether the National Land Commission has reported that it was unable to complete the review process as contemplated...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I come from a school of thought that everything must have an end-point. It cannot just be an open cheque and an endless process where we litigate non-stop. Even election petitions, as emotive as they are, have timelines. Even the presidential one, which has so much public...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, this is very interesting. It is coming on the heels of a judgement by the High Court that said that the Government is not necessarily new to recovery procedures in the event of failure to honour a judgement or a financial obligation. Sorry, I have been away...