Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to comment on the statement by Sen. Cherarkey. On Sunday last week, accompanied by the Senator for Uasin Gishu County, we visited the family of the late Father Allois Bett. What we saw was truly devastating. The mother was completely distraught, as were...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not know who has wronged you today. However, I apologise on behalf of those who may have caused you great distress. I hope my colleagues will abide by your guidance. I humbly plead, if it pleases the Speaker, to allow us this afternoon...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Senate Majority Leader. Sen. Danson Mungatana, proceed. May 29, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 50 Sen. Cheruiyot amendments to the Investment Promotion Act that will make the country as competitive as other regions?The Class G work permit is offered to any person who intends to engage, whether alone...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Hon. Chute, your comments on the cities of Tanzania and Tanzania in general are uncalled for. May they be expunged from the record? Proceed, to conclude.

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

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) to hereby present the business of the week that commences on Tuesday, 3rd June, 2025. The status of business that is pending before the Senate is as follows- There are 53 Bills of which, 37...

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Sen. Cheruiyot On a point of clarification, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

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Sen. Cheruiyot No, let me do it. REPORT ON CONSIDERATION OF THE NUTS AND OIL CROPS BILL (SENATE BILLS NO.47 OF 2023) May 29, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 5

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can see many Members of the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries present. I wonder why they are not---

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following papers on the Table of the Senate, today, Thursday, the 29th May, 2025- REPORT OF THE COB ON THE COUNTY GOVERNMENTS BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW FOR THE FIRST QUARTER OF FY2024/2025 REPORT OF THE AUDITOR-GENERAL ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF EMALI-SULTAN...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I was trying to confirm if you read the name of this institution right because to the best of my knowledge, students from Tengecha Boys were in this Parliament on Tuesday. This must be the second lot or the name is not typed correctly, but...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to move the following Motion- THAT, notwithstanding the Resolutions of the Senate made on 19th February, 2025, pursuant to Standing Order 32 on the approval of the Senate Calendar (Regular Sessions) for the 4th Session 2025; further notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order...

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Sen. Cheruiyotspeak, I hope the Senate Majority and Minority Whips are whipping the Members for us to conclude on this today.I thank you. May 27, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 17 Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope Sen. Mandago together with the Members who serve in the Committee on Health, including...

Sen. Cheruiyot Proceed to conclude, Sen. Cherarkey.

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Sen. Aaron. Sen. Osotsi, please endeavour to take two minutes, so that we have a few more contributors by Senators. [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Wakili Sigei) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Veronica Maina) in the Chair] May 27, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 49 Sen. Cheruiyot...

Hon. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to comment on SHA. I do not know why people get offended or worked up when we say SHA is working. What else are we supposed to say? There is addiction to bad news in the country. Leaders must begin to live...

Sen. Cheruiyot I said Sen. Sifuna's band, which never agrees with anything that I say. Surely, Mr. Speaker, Sir, unless Sen. Sifuna wants to rise and say he agrees with the things I say---

that was taken at the national level that they should be constructing. The least that we can do is to match the amount of money that counties have spent on these CAIPs to ensure completion and utilization of the facilities.Secondly, in the Second Schedule is the issue of court fines....

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Sen. CheruiyotI must say I was very offended that the person who is responsible for that, the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, while at a church on Sunday in Nairobi, instead of telling the UHC workers how much money he has put in the budget, he...

Sen. Cheruiyot The problem is that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was on his phone when I was making my point. That is why he completely misunderstood what I mentioned. I was pursuing the point of fictitious claims, unless, Sen. (Dr.) Boni wants to mislead this House that NHIF did not have...

Sen. Cheruiyot Okay, Mr. Speaker, Sir. For the record of the House, I withdraw that comment.

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to give Notice of the following Motion- Notwithstanding the resolution of the Senate made on 19th February, 2025, pursuant to Standing Order No.32, on approval of the Senate Calendar (Regular Sessions) for the Fourth Session 2025; and further notwithstanding the provision of Standing...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate, today, Tuesday, 27th May, 2025- The County Governments (Additional Allocations) Cash Disbursement Schedule for the Financial Year 2024/2025. (Sen. Cheruiyot laid the document on the Table) May 27, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 1

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, Sen. Cherarkey is not a first-time legislator. Even a first-time legislator by now knows the Standing Orders of this House. If he wants to discuss the conduct of the Cabinet Secretary, he knows what he needs to do. One, he knows that he needs to...

Sen. CheruiyotThe beauty of the SACCOs is that they provide financial support directly to the people we represent in this House. Very few of those who vote for me rely on commercial banks for loans; perhaps hardly 10 per cent. However, more than 90 per cent are members of a...

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Sen. Cheruiyotam not wrong, were spending more than half the resources that we devolved on paying salaries. Surely, why should you want to be called a governor? Your name should be turned to paymaster general. You are just a salaries payment officer if you are disposing more than half of...

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Sen. Cheruiyotextremely powerful officers because many of our people are organising themselves into cooperatives.Sen. Mungatana, we seek to pass this piece of legislation so as to ensure that those men and women have sufficient powers to ensure that even the young people that you are about to tell me to...

Hon. Senators, the putting of the question is thus deferred. I appoint Tuesday, 27th May, 2025, as the day when the question will be put. (Putting of the question on the Bill deferred) ADJOURNMENT

Hon. Senators, it is now 6.37 p.m. Having concluded the business for which I extended the hours of sitting, pursuant to Standing Order No.34 (2A) , the Senate stands adjourned until next week Tuesday, 27th May, 2025, at 2.30 p.m. The Senate rose at 6.37 p.m. May 22, 2025 SENATE...

The putting of the question is deferred. (Putting of the question deferred) Next Order. May 22, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 22 THE CREATIVE ECONOMY SUPPORT BILL (SENATE BILLS NO.30 OF 2024)

May 22, 2025 SENATE DEBATES 29 Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, cooperatives play a fundamental role in the social economic development by harnessing the collective economic participation. They promote financial inclusion and support local enterprise, ensuring that local economy works, as I have explained.In Part I, which comprises of...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank you. I rise to comment on the Statement by Sen. Edwine Sifuna on the operations of KRU. As a May 21, 2025 SENATE DEBATES Sen. Cheruiyotfan of rugby and sports in general, it must be our interest to ensure that our federations function...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have a question to the Cabinet Secretary with regards to her answer on individual loan products to women. Women entrepreneurs face very serious challenges and women have to overcome more barriers than us men in terms of access to opportunities. I have seen in...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Speaker, Sir, as a punishment for interrupting a very solemn moment when students visit our institution, I will be requesting that we move the House that Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale be compelled to meet with the students and buy them lunch. Otherwise, I welcome these students that...

Sen. CheruiyotThe plan has always been that the train will have a stopover at Ikonge in North Mugirango. However, of late, we are hearing rumours that there is a plan to divert it to our neighbouring county and leave the people of Nyamira out.Madam Temporary Speaker, that region has coffee,...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think Sen. Omogeni was doing so well on this issue, representing his farmers, who incidentally are also my farmers because we come from the same region. He knows that when Sen. Moses Wetangula moved the House on that particular matter, it was because only...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this Motion. Probably, it will be good for me to explain why, so that Members do not think that I am at variance with what the Committee is proposing. There is a little technicality on how this Motion is drafted. The...

The Vice-Chair of Budget and Finance, Sen. Tabitha Mutinda.

Sen. CheruiyotDevelopment Fund (NG-CDF) at 2.5 per cent. If this House is to concur, then it must also affirm the exact percentage that should go to the counties for each financial year.The reliance on the last audited financial accounts has left counties struggling under deep debt and operating with insufficient...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have listened to the Chairperson of the Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. I hold the Senator together with all the Members who serve in that Committee in high regard, but I must look them straight in the eye and tell them that they...

Sen. Faki, proceed. Hon. Senators, we will take two Senators from the Majority Side, and two from the Minority Side. Then, we will put this to a vote.

Lastly, Sen. Boni.

Sen. Cheruiyot) : Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I wanted to inform my good friend, the Senator for Kericho County, about the matter he has raised regarding injunctions issued by judges. If you read the report tabled by the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations, a...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not mind.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir---

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very sad affair.

Sen. CheruiyotAs I have said, among all the absurd statements made, the most concerning is the Chair’s revelation that the Controller of Budget claims she cannot determine which function of the Assembly is benefiting from these funds because she receives Exchequer requests directly from the county government. These funds are...

Mhe. Spika, pia mimi najiunga na Maseneta waliotangulia kuchangia Hoja hii kwamba yanayoendelea katika Kaunti ya Nyamira ni makosa. Hoja hii ilipokuja kwa mara ya kwanza, kabla ya Kamati kuambiwa ichunguze, suala hili lilikuja katika hali isiyokupendeza. Kuna bunge mbili katika Kaunti ya Nyamira yanayotoa mwongozo tofauti kwa serikali ya...

Sen. Cheruiyot Something is not right at the Tobacco Control Board. I wish that the Cabinet Secretary listens keenly to this request. Madam Temporary Speaker, I like the fact that the Cabinet Secretary has spoken on this issue of a multi-agency team. As representatives of the people, sometimes we come...

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, just for 10 seconds on the issue of procedure; yesterday at the Senate Business Committee (SBC) , we passed an agreement that whenever we are handling this session and we are pressed for time, we give priority first to Members who initially drafted questions...

Sen. Cheruiyot Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg for your indulgence because I still have an additional request to the Cabinet Secretary on this tobacco issue. It is something that he has alluded to. Can I make it as a request so that as he brings additional information to the House---?

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have a question with regards to the financial inclusion product otherwise known as a Hustler Fund, which the Cabinet Secretary responded to in the first part of the question. For the record, to the best of my knowledge, the President never promised...

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. The people who promised Kshs6,000 one-off as a grand are known. Regarding the Hustler Fund - and the Cabinet Secretary is here, he will confirm to us - from the get go, everybody who borrowed knew that the scheme is that you borrow,...

Sen. Cheruiyot On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, I thought I had trained very many assistants, but nonetheless--- There were many others besides Sen. Methu. REPORT ON CONSIDERATION OF THE COUNTY CIVIC EDUCATION BILL (SENATE BILLS NO.4 OF 2024) REPORT ON CONSIDERATION OF THE KENYA POLICY ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION (SESSIONAL PAPER NO.3 OF 2023)

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr Speaker, Sir. Data protection is a very serious issue. I know this because many times when we pass legislation that allows Government to acquire data from citizens, we have always had a conversation as a House on the importance of ensuring that storage of this...

Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of my colleagues and the Senate, I do welcome the students who have visited with us this afternoon. I hope they will get full value of their time and money that they have spent to visit the Senate. This is their...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, after stressful campaigns, engagement with the people in harambees and funerals, when you get into your car, you listen to some songs. You scroll through TikTok and you see what is happening.Nowadays, it is no longer fashionable to watch traditional news at designated time. You already...

Sen. Cheruiyot) : Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I support the Creative Economic Support Bill 2024. I wish it had been called The Creative Economy and Innovation Support Bill, 2024. I hope at the Committee of the Whole Sen. Eddy should allow us to amend. Before I make my...

Sen. Mungatana, we had requested that given the contribution that that team from Tana River made to the UDA party, it would be proper for them to be properly recognized.Probably, if there was a misunderstanding, then I want to make it now properly to you, Sen. Mungatana, that those young...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker Sir, I support the Creative Economic Support Bill 2024. I wish it had been called The Creative Economy and Innovation Support Bill, 2024. I hope at the Committee of the Whole Sen. Eddy should allow us to amend. Before I make my comments, pass my...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, this request was for comments in the earlier discussion. I do not have a comment on the Statements.

Sen. Cheruiyot Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I proceed with this Statement, let me take this opportunity to welcome hon. Senators back from the short recess. I hope they took time to rest, spend time with their families and friends, reconnect with their constituents and rejuvenate themselves for Part III of...

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Sen. Cheruiyot Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the opportunity. My question to the Cabinet Secretary follows the conversation you had this morning. You had a conversation about the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, a complaint about the distribution of resources to counties. Would you...

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Sen. Cheruiyot That is okay. The Cabinet Secretary for Education (Hon. Julius Migos Ogamba) : With respect to the school feeding programme, we have a programme where we are supposed to work towards reaching 10 million children. Currently, we are supporting 2.6 million children, which is far below the number...