Mungatana Danson Buya

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a Kshs27 billion project that is being carried under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) framework. The Cabinet Secretary knows that Schedule Four lists out the distribution of duties between the national Government and the county governments. If you refer to Rule No.11, you...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Roads, Transportation and Housing on a matter of countrywide concern regarding the prolonged and unexplained stalling of construction of the Tana River County Headquarters. The county...

Asante, Bwana Spika wa Muda. Ninasimama kuongea kuhusu NPR ambao kule kwetu tunawaita ma-homeguards. Hawa ma-homeguards ama walinzi wa vijijini, hufanya kazi muhimu sana katika kaunti yetu ya Tana River lakini wanateswa. [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Wakili Sigei) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Sen. Abdul Haji) in the Chair]...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I welcome the students to this Senate. Many years ago, we were also students like you and we went through what you have gone through. Your parents, just like us, are putting a lot of effort, so that you can succeed in life. For us, we...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I want to thank you very much, for giving me the Floor. I wish to move: – Sen. Maanzo, please.

I ask Hon. Maanzo, a member of our committee, to second because he sat in those meetings and knows what we did.

Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to thank the Hon. Maanzo, Hon. Olekina, Hon. Mundigi and Hon. Murango for their great contribution. Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senate must stand for the people of Kenya. There is no way we are going to allow these regulations to come in effect, 1st...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise pursuant to Standing Order 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Land, Thank you, Sen. Danson Mungatana. Sen. Hamida Kibwana, please, proceed.

Thank you, Senator. I will extend the sitting for another 15 minutes, so that we can have the Mover to reply. (Question proposed) Mover, please proceed.

Fertiliser and Animal Foodstuffs Board (FAFB), the Pest Control Products Board (PCPB), the Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS), the Kenya Dairy Board (KDB) and others.The Senate wanted the relevant county departments included as competent authorities. This one amendment that we proposed to assert the presence of the Senate was...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Senior Counsel Paul Muite was behind me here and I was seated very closely to him when he told us a ridiculous thing; that he does not know where his client has gone. In the same breath, he was telling us that he needs time...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you. I support the statement by the Hon. Mundigi on the issue of mangoes. The problem that Sen. Mundigi is raising for the markets of mangoes is similar to what we have in Tana River County. The first point I want the committee to look at...

On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am amazed by the very beautiful Swahili by my colleague, Mheshimiwa, Sen. Wafula, who is also a very good basketball player in our team. So, I like to listen to his speeches, but is he aware that I did not attend his school? I heard...

I thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on National Security, Defence and Foreign Relations on a matter of countywide concern regarding the decade-long ban on night-time travel for public service vehicles along the Malindi- Garsen-Lamu...

Asante Bw. Spika. Ningependa kuongea kuhusu barabara kuu kutoka Mombasa-Kilifi-Malindi. Sisi watu wa Tana River County huwa tunakuza maembe mengi sana. Soko letu kubwa la haya maembe liko Mombasa. Imekuwa mtihani kubeba maembe kutoka Tana River ufike Malindi. Kutoka Malindi, ilikuwa barabara ni nzuri. Sasa mwanakandarasi aliyeingia, imekuwa miaka na...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, I will yield because he is a Member of the committee. Senate and from the National Assembly. I am even surprised that this Bill is emanating from the National Assembly. How can you take away the power that was given to you by the Constitution...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, yes, I will yield because he is a Member of the committee.

Mr. Deputy Sir, either way, they were about 1,000. In my mind, they were about 10,000, but we were sitting in that committee, and the Attorney General wanted over 1,000 regulations to be extended from different ministries. If you look at how this works, those Cabinet Secretaries did not come...

On a point of information.

Sen. Eddy Oketch, proceed.

Madam Speaker, thank you very much for allowing me to ask this question. Waziri, welcome. We are always happy to see one of us come here because you know how it has been before. I am getting there, Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you. There is lack of decorum from participants...

Asante, Bw. Spika, kwa kunipa nafasi kuuliza swali. Waziri, swali langu ni kuhusu pesa ambazo zinatumika kwa women empowerment na kusaidia wale wanaoishi na ulemavu. Umesema kuwa pesa zilizotumwa kule Kisumu ni shilingi 197,984,000. Ningependa kujua ni pesa ngapi zimetumwa kwa Kaunti yetu ya Tana River kwa sababu kina mama...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. SACCOs are very famous as instruments of doing business in the matatu industry. Many people are investing in this business every single day because matatus are a necessity for many Kenyans who go to work and back home, including those who go upcountry. So,...

Sen. Cherarkey, please proceed.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, just briefly. When the Government was undertaking the connectivity project, they must have set aside some money for compensation of the people in Kajiado. The question I want the Ministry to clarify to us is this. How much was the money and what is the problem? If...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me the Floor. I would like to address the question of statutory deductions from employees, but failure by entities to remit those contributions to the relevant agencies. The Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) report, Vol.3/2026, reveals that Tana River County owes its...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to really congratulate the Hon. Cabinet Secretary for the work he has been doing. I am from Tana River County and he is our neighbor from Garissa and he has made us proud. I have a question and I want him to take...