OUNDO, WILBERFORCE OJIAMBO

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill of 2024. Most likely, it arises from the discussions of NADCO. We stand here today to debate this amendment Bill in the backdrop of some very...

Hon. Speaker, I welcome you back from the short recess. I had already made my contribution on this Bill. I leave the opportunity to somebody else. Just hold on, Hon. Oundo. Hon. Members, you have been wiped out of the screen which is very good. If you want to speak...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to commend the Decentralized Funds Accounts Committee for the wonderful job they have been doing and to also sympathise with them as well. I hope they are listening so they can receive my sincere sympathy. Trying to audit books of account from 2014...

How can I be out of order?

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 14 of the Bill be amended— Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 19 of the Bill be amended—

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, whatever fate befalls that particular amendment, let me just clarify that we are asking for a seamless transfer of information from one House to another. This is because there is already a requirement in the Bill that says that where public participation has been done, the other...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I want Hon. Chepkong’a and Hon. Murugara to listen carefully. We must never legislate in vain. The Bill of Rights allows access to the court of law, and there should be no impediments to access the courts of law. Any Bill that purports to limit access to...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting clause 3. The reason is that the original Bill says that the provision of subsection 1 shall not apply to any rules, regulations and orders emanating from a court of competent jurisdiction in Kenya....

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, my apprehension is this: If I drop my amendments and then amendments proposed by the Committee are lost… The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : We are already prosecuting your amendment, which is a deletion. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. Let us do this since the Committee's...

Indeed, I agree with Hon. Chepkong’a. That is why I said I am just holding my breath and keeping my fingers closed since they know how to vote in unison. Can the Almighty God descend in their hearts and vote in unison to maintain the independence of the Judiciary, which...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, that is a progressive amendment, and that is how we should always avoid wastage of resources, duplication and cumbersome processes. We must also pass a warning to regulatory authorities that some regulations could actually be outdated by now. Some that were made and passed in the 1960s...

I am flabbergasted, apprehensive and worried that our good Member has crossed the Floor without folding the party. That neighbour is none other than the good Member of Parliament for the people of Nyando Constituency. Would you kindly come where you belong? You look so uncomfortable on the other end...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the National Disaster Risk Management Bill (National Assembly Bill No.24 of 2023) . As you have clearly mentioned, this Bill was presented in this House in the last term. For some strange reasons, I do not know whether we did not...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the proposed amendments to the Statutory Instruments (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.3 of 2024) . This Bill has been long overdue. I sat in the Committee on Delegated Legislation in the last Parliament, and we grappled with this issue for...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Recognising that talent starts in primary and secondary schools, I wish the Cabinet Secretary could highlight what efforts the Ministry is making to improve sporting facilities in both primary and secondary schools in the entire Republic of Kenya, especially in the western part, which is the...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, the Mover is just being extremely unfair. Traditionally, that was Moi Day. It changed from Moi Day to no holiday, and then it was reinstated. It then changed to Utamaduni Day and is now being changed to Mazingira Day. I am sure he will probably change it...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Omboko Milemba) : I hear you, Hon. Oundo. Hon. Temporary Chairman, there seems to be a bit of uncertainty. This is because Section 25 of the Act reads, ‘where a declaration under this section is made with respect...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Omboko Milemba) : Hon. Oundo. Hon. Temporary Chairman, I might have switched off a little bit, and need guidance. In the Office of the Attorney-General Act No.49 of 2012, there were new Sections under Part 11 (a) ....

Understood, but I thought we had moved the standard amendments. The new clauses are moved the way we typically do. They are seconded, we debate, and pass them. However, if it has met the threshold of the procedure I have no problem, but if there is a procedural issue, we...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I must take this opportunity to sincerely thank the petitioner for bringing up the issue of historical land injustices to the Floor of the House. Under Article 67 of the Constitution of Kenya, the National Land Commission is mandated to initiate investigations on its own initiative...

On a point of Order Hon. Speaker. I was just wondering loudly under the Standing Orders of this House. The Committee of Trade, Industry and Cooperative oversees SEZs. Probably, the inquiry thought of by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning would be appropriate if there...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. There is a point of order from the Member for Funyula. What is your point of order? I had to interrupt my good friend, Sir George, who used to be a good man last term. Hon. Speaker, the Leader of the Minority Party...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, the tragedy that has been the Affordable Housing Bill continues. It went to the Senate and we thought that the Senate will have the temerity and courage to cure the mess, but they have only amplified it. We find ourselves in a more terrible mess than we...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I want Kenyans to know that if they borrow, there is a cost for it and it will be passed on to the Kenyan who will buy the house. So, the issue of affordability is a smokescreen. We will get into the same regime of looting, borrowing,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, as much as it is towards improving the role of the county governments, there is a catch. There are two issues: New Clause 31F (d) could easily be misinterpreted to make Municipal Boards and City Boards to be agencies yet it is not expressly provided for in...

Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : Yes, Member for Funyula. We probably need to reflect on New Clause 31G) soberly. During the last Committee of the whole House, some amendments were thrown out on account that there needs to be uniformity in affordable housing. We had...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, this is an absurdity of the whole process. Honestly speaking, how can somebody in their right sense insert this particular clause? In the reminiscent days of the Commission on Lands, you could not sell or charge a property until you had the consent of the Commissioner of...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to support the Report by the Public Investments Committee on Commercial Affairs and Energy on the examination of the reports of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of selected State corporations. The State corporations being examined here are the Engineers Board of Kenya...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Ochanda, let us hear the point of order from Hon. Oundo. You know he is my neighbour, presumptively and, therefore, I am wondering what is his problem with fish. There are RDAs in Lake Victoria which have fish. I do not...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to follow up on the issue which Hon. (Dr) Nyikal has raised and put it in a different perspective. When we publish Bills there is an assertion as to whether they concern county governments or not. In your ruling in respect to the Affordable...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to comment on the Bill submitted or sponsored by my good friend, Hon. Peter. From the classrooms, we were always told regional economic development bodies were the engines of rural development. It has been a long journey from Sessional Paper...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is always refreshing for Members to propose amendments to Acts, Bills or the Constitution. Because of time, I will be very brief. Amendments proposed under Article 88 of the Constitution are an interesting reading. They are a study on how we can manipulate a system to...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. When I perused through the Employment (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.11 of 2022) , it reminded me of a similar Bill that came from the Senate in the last term sponsored by the current Governor of Muranga County. It left me wondering. Under Article 96,...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is your point of order, Hon. Oundo? Hon. Temporary Speaker, for neatness and for record purposes, and because Parliament is a House of records, the author or the Mover of the Bill is Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, the Leader of the Majority...