National Assembly Hansard: Wednesday, 7th October, 2026 - Afternoon Sitting

REPUBLIC OF KENYA THIRTEENTH PARLIAMENT

7th October 2026

Vol. V No. 89

PRAYERS

QUORUM

PAPERS

1. 1. Resolutions of the 13th Ordinary Session of the National and County Governments Coordinating Summit from the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC).
2. 2. Draft Orders relating to Host Country Agreements and their Explanatory Memoranda from the Office of the Prime Cabinet Secretary between the Republic of Kenya and–
   1. (a) The African Confederation of Cooperative Savings and Credit Association (ACCOSCA).
   2. (b) The African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF).
3. 3. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) for the year ended 30th June 2026 and the certificates therein in respect of the following Constituencies:
   1. (a) Lagdera
   2. (b) Likuyani
4. 4. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements for the year ended 30th June 2026 and certificates therein in respect of the following:
   1. (a) Capital Markets Authority
   2. (b) County High School – Garissa
   3. (c) Dadaab Secondary School
   4. (d) Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Staff House Mortgage and Car Loan Scheme
   5. (e) Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission
   6. (f) Kenya Electricity Generating Company PLC
   7. (g) Rift Valley Technical Training Institute
   8. (h) The Kenya Power and Lighting Company PLC

1. (i) The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions Staff Housing Mortgage and Car Loan Schemes Fund
2. (j) Turkana University College

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay.

QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

REQUESTS FOR STATEMENTS NON-PAYMENT OF DEATH GRATUITY TO THE ESTATE OF THE LATE DORCUS NANZALA CHAMI

Member for Malava, Hon. David Ndakwa. Give Hon. Ndakwa the microphone. There you are Hon. David.

1. 1. The total amount of death gratuity due to the estate of the late Dorcus Nanzala Chami, including any other benefits outstanding to her lawful beneficiaries.
2. 2. The reason for the prolonged delay in processing and payment of the gratuity for the late Dorcus Nanzala Chami.
3. 3. The measures being undertaken by the Teachers Service Commission to resolve the claim and the specific timeframe within which the gratuity will be processed and paid to the lawful beneficiaries. Thank you Hon. Speaker.

CONTINUITY OF PROGRAMME AT THE TURKANA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Turkana County is a global centre of groundbreaking archaeological discoveries and is internationally recognised as one of the most important regions for understanding human origins. As a result, in 2018, the Turkana University College, in collaboration with the Turkana Basin Institute, established a Master of Science in Human Evolutionary Biology Programme, designed to equip students with scientific and technical skills to study, conserve, interpret and understand the heritage of human origins. Some graduates of this programme have progressed to post-graduate doctoral studies training, including engaging in research opportunities at leading universities in the world. However, there have been concerns regarding the continuity of the programme due to inadequate permanent academic staff, limited funding, insufficient teaching and research facilities. Additionally, there is reported absence of an independent academic department to coordinate the programme and support its long-term development.

In July 2026, the Government initiated the Kenya Home of Human Origins Museum and Science Park Project, set to be established in the Lake Turkana Basin. The Project is expected to position Kenya as a global centre for human-origins research, scientific education and sustainable tourism. The success of this project calls for investing in the people who will conduct research, manage collections and interpret their scientific significance.

It is against this background that I request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Education on the following:

1. 1. Plans by the Ministry of Education to revitalise the Master of Science in Human Evolutionary Biology programme at the Turkana University College including:
   1. (a) establishment of an independent academic department for the programme; and
   2. (b) provision of financial, infrastructural and technical support to facilitate adequate teaching and research facilities and permanent academic staff.
2. 2. The specific budgetary allocation for the programme and implementation timelines for revitalising the programme and establishing the proposed department of Human Evolutionary Biology.
3. 3. Measures by the Government to establish formal collaboration between Turkana University College, the National Museums of Kenya and the Turkana Basin Institute, to provide students and graduates with field training and research opportunities within the museum and science park project.
4. 4. Plans by the Government to partner with other institutions to expand scholarship and training opportunities for qualified students, particularly needy students from Turkana County and other marginalised communities.

Thank you.

ACCIDENTS ALONG THE KISII-KISUMU HIGHWAY

1. 1. A report on the number of accidents, fatalities and injuries recorded along the Nairobi-Kisumu Highway between Daraja Moja and Daraja Mbili in Kisii Town over the last two years, and measures taken to prevent the accidents.
2. 2. The status and timelines of implementation of road infrastructure improvements, including pedestrian footbridges and walkways.
3. 3. The measures the Government has put in place to enhance enforcement of traffic and road safety rules within Kisii Town, particularly regarding speed limits, public service vehicles conduct and boda boda operations.

I thank you.

STATEMENTS

ELECTROCUTION OF MS RITA MAPENZI

The fourth question was on the long-term measures put in place by KPLC to strengthen maintenance, inspection and monitoring of electricity infrastructure across the country and prevent recurrence of similar incidents. The KPLC is strengthening its preventive maintenance and public safety framework through systematic inspection of distribution lines, risk-based replacement of deteriorated poles and other defective components, vegetation management, timely isolation and repair of unsafe infrastructure, and closer monitoring of maintenance completion. The company is also reinforcing incident reporting and escalation, improving the targeting and tracking of maintenance work, and sustaining public electrical safety awareness. Priority is being given to long feeders and locations presenting heightened public safety risks, including completion of corrective works identified on the Baricho feeder and other networks within Kilifi County.

The KPLC regrets this unfortunate incident and remains committed to supporting the affected family and concluding the claims process expeditiously and continuously strengthening the safety, inspection and maintenance of its electricity work.

I submit.

HARMONISATION AND STRENGTHENING OF MATERNITY LEAVE

1. 1. Measures being considered to address the disparity in maternity leave entitlements for employees in the public and private sector.
2. 2. Consultations being done by the Public Service Commission, employers and employees’ organisations and other relevant sector holders towards the harmonisation and strengthening of maternity protection for employees.

1. 3. Measures being considered to address disparity in maternity leave entitlement for employees in the public and private sector.

Hon. Speaker, the statutory minimum maternity leave guaranteed under Section 29 of the Employment Act (Cap. 226) for all female employees in formal employment is three months, that is 90 calendar days, of fully paid maternity leave. The Section provides as follows:

1. 1. A female employee shall be entitled to three months maternity leave with full pay.
2. 2. On expiry of a female employee's maternity leave, as provided in subsections one and three, the female employee shall have the right to return to the job which she held immediately prior to her maternity leave, or to a reasonable suitable job on terms and conditions not less favourable than those which would have applied, had she not been on maternity leave.
3. 3. Where—
4. (a) The maternity leave has been extended with the consent of the employer or;
5. (b) Immediately on expiry of maternity leave before resuming her duties, a female employee proceeds on sick leave or with the consent of the employer on annual leave, compassionate leave or any other leave, the three months maternity leave, under subsection (1), shall be deemed to expire on the last day of such extended leave. Public institutions adhere fully to these provisions. Some institutions allow for additional leave, where circumstances warrant. For instance, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) has enhanced internal guidelines that extend maternity leave. The guidelines provides that the female employees shall be entitled to 120 calendar days, with full pay, with effect from the date of delivery. The teacher shall not forfeit her annual leave on account of having taken maternity leave.

The Public Service Commission, therefore, proposes that:

1. 1. The issues of harmonisation of maternity leave can only be undertaken through legislation. The National Assembly is better placed to undertake this legislation. This should include standardisation of other parental leaves, including expansion of paternity leave and pre-adoptive leave concurrently to promote shared caregiving responsibilities.
2. 2. There is need for continuous enforcement for strengthening compliance with mandatory workplace locations, stations and nursing beds required under the health and labour laws to bridge the gap between policy and practise, and even impose penalties where the same is not adhered to. The enforcement should be undertaken by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.
3. 3. Consultations to be undertaken with the Public Service Commission, employers and employees, organisation and other relevant stakeholders towards harmonisation and strengthening of maternity protection for employees. The Public Service Commission regularly approves human resource instruments for public agencies that are under its purview. These include ministries, state departments, state corporations and public universities.

The Public Service Commission has ensured that the provisions of the Employment Act on maternity leave are embedded in the human resource policies and procedure manuals of these agencies. Its position is that consultation for harmonisation and strengthening of maternity leave can only be effectively undertaken during review of the provisions of the Employment Act and the legislative process in Parliament. During the legislative process, the provisions of the Maternity Protection Convention, 2000 should be considered, including the requirements to:

1. 1. Promote equality of all women in the workforce, and the health and safety of the mother and child.
2. 2. Ensure the consideration of provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women Rights of 1979, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child of 1989, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action of 1995, the International Labour Organisation Declaration on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment of Women Workers of 1975, the International Labour Organisation Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work and its follow up of 1998, as well as International Labour Convention recommendations aimed at ensuring equality of opportunity and treatment of men and women workers, in particular the Workers with Family Responsibilities Convention, 1981.
3. 3. Recognise the concerns of women workers and the need to provide protection for pregnancy which is a shared responsibility of the Government and society.
4. 4. Provide for application of resolutions of the Convention on Employed Women, including those in typical forms of dependent work.
5. 5. Each member which ratifies the Convention may, after consulting the representative organisation of employers and workers concerned, exclude wholly or partly from the scope of the Convention limited categories of workers, when its application to them raises special problems of substantial nature, with the reasons for the exclusion. The member shall describe the measures taken with a view to progressively extend the provisions of the Convention to these categories of workers.
6. 6. That each member shall, after consulting the representative organisations of employers and workers, adopt appropriate measures to ensure that pregnant or breastfeeding women are not obliged to perform work which has been determined by the competent authority to be prejudicial to the health of the mother or the child, or where an assessment has established a significant risk to the mother's health or that of her child.
7. 7. That upon the production of a medical certificate or other appropriate certification as determined by the national law and practice, stating the presumed date of childbirth, a woman to whom the Convention applies shall be entitled to a period of maternity leave of not less than 14 weeks; and finally,
8. 8. Clarify that, in the case of illness, complication or risk of complication arising out of pregnancy or childbirth, a maximum duration of such leave may be specified in accordance with national law and practice.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

that they can be in tandem with the WHO requirement that a mother is supposed to exclusively breastfeed the child for six months. As she recovers and gets back on her feet, she can be able to serve meaningfully.

I am not satisfied, Hon. Speaker.

Going by this, I find that the Cabinet Secretary and the security agencies have not done justice to the family of Jimmy Mutava, to the people of Mavoko, to the people of Machakos and to Kenyans at large. It is in public knowledge that abductions in this country have become common.

He cannot be very respectable and then you are casting aspersions at him.

SPECIAL MOTION

APPOINTMENT OF NOMINEE AS A MEMBER OF THE PARLIAMENTARY SERVICE COMMISSION

On the oral interviews, the Commission, on 10th September 2026, assessed the candidates’ academic qualifications, relevant experience, understanding of Parliament and the Commission's leadership and management, Chapter 6 requirements and personal attributes including integrity, accountability, communication, and interpersonal skills. During the interview outcomes, Hon. Fatuma Ibrahim Ali emerged as the highest-scoring candidate with a mean score of 80.48 per cent. She was followed by Prof. Jacqueline Oduol at 61.6 per cent and Amina Ali Abdalla at 56.19 per cent in that order.

After the interviews, the Commission, at its Special Meeting held on 10th September 2026, resolved to recommend Hon. Fatuma Ibrahim Ali to the National Assembly and the Senate for consideration and approval. The recommendations were based on her having attained the highest score in the oral interviews. It is against this background that I confirm to this House that the same Motion was passed in the Senate. I request this House to consider and approve this candidate.

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move and request the former Commissioner, Hon. Keynan, to second.

I have had an opportunity to talk with my colleagues and I want to plead with all of them to approve her appointment. I know my good friend, Hon. Wamboka, will empathise with the highly qualified lady from the region, put aside those small issues, and support her appointment. I am sure we will benefit from her membership on this Commission.

This is our Commission. Hon. Speaker, I am sure that someone like you who has been around understands the genesis of the formation of the Commission. We fought hard for it. We fought hard for the entrenchment of the Commission’s role in the Constitution. The roles of the two non-Member Commissioners are clearly enshrined in the Constitution. Hon. Fatuma will add value to the Commission and support the cause of Members of Parliament.

Finally, even as we approve her nomination, we need an all-rounded commissioner. She has been a Member of Parliament and of the Executive. She understands governance dynamics. I can bet she will be at the forefront in pursuing our interests as Members of Parliament and staff.

I beg to second the Motion and plead with my colleagues to support Hon. Fatuma's appointment to the Commission.

(Hon. Mugambi Rindikiri and several Members stood in the aisle)

Secondly, it could result from subjective decision-making, improper influence or bias. We, therefore, need to ask: Were the candidates asked the same questions? Was the interview format consistent? Was the scoring system standard?

The commissioners scored the candidates in their capacity as an independent constitutional commission. Under the Public Appointments Act, you are required to consider the suitability of the candidates nominated by the Commission for appointment to that office. I have not heard the Hon. Member address the suitability or non-suitability of any candidate, other than imputing improper motive on the commissioners.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

That is what I am asking this House to do rather than adopt a Report with these deficiencies. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

This is a lady who has served this country for over 50 years. These are people who have served this country for their entire lives. Hon. Speaker, let us not besmirch people because they do not have an opportunity to defend themselves on the Floor of the House. This is a lady who was our colleague two years ago. In this House, we have approved people who do not have any papers.

has done a good job, the Committee has interviewed the nominee, sought public participation and considered the matter.

With those few remarks, I urge Members to approve this lady, Hon. Speaker. She is more than qualified. Put the Question Hon. Speaker.

MOTION

ADOPTION OF REPORT ON INSPECTION VISIT TO SPECIAL NEEDS SCHOOLS

THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity on the Inspection Visit to fourteen (14) special needs schools in specified counties, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 30th July 2024.

Special School in Nyeri and widespread infrastructure and staffing deficiencies across multiple institutions.

These findings point to broader policy and governance concerns including gaps in the implementation of existing laws, weak inter-agency coordination among key actors such as the Ministry of Education, the Teachers Service Commission and insufficient prioritisation of the special needs schools within the national budgeting and planning framework.

(Hon. Members consulted in low tones)

Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

COMMUNICATION FROM THE CHAIR

DELEGATION FROM THE ELLEN JOHNSON SIRLEAF PRESIDENTIAL CENTRE FOR WOMEN AND DEVELOPMENT

Hon. Members, I will direct some reorganisation of the Order Paper. After Order No.9, we will go straight to Order No.11 on the Committee of the whole. In the Committee of the whole House, we will only deal with Item (i), the Kenya Revenue Authority (Amendment) Bill. The County Assembly Services (Amendment) Bill will be stepped down. I am told there are some consultations still going on. After we finish with Order No.11 in the Committee of the whole House, we will go back to Order No.10, Strategic Goods Control Bill.

Leader of the Majority Party Leader.

there. He was not talking to the House. He should just apologise and withdraw then we move forward.

I will deal with him without help.

Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, I am giving you one last chance. You made an allegation. You know, you can grandstand but it is not helpful in this House. You made an allegation and I have told you the parameters of substantiation, which you do not have. I am very sure even if I gave you a week, you will not bring those call logs. Go ahead and tender an apology. When you say truth and whatever, those superlatives have no place here; none whatsoever. You said something that is not true. Tender an apology – I have already expunged them from The Hansard – we go on. The Speaker still has options of punishment if you do not tender the apology. Go ahead.

PSSF. It is on record. It seems to becoming a tradition for him to make such allegations, placing himself as the authority on everything. I think it is advisable that, as you move out there, once you come here, relieve your mind from the intoxications of the politicking out there.

We are wasting valuable time on someone who does not care about what we are transacting, merely making allegations to speak to the public gallery. Please, Hon. Speaker, save us from this situation.

I thank you. (Hon. Ndindi Nyoro raised his hand to speak)

1. (1) A Member commits an act of gross disorderly conduct if the Member—
   1. (a) defies a ruling or direction of the Speaker or Chairperson of Committees; With respect, Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, as my colleague, has committed gross disorderly misconduct. The punishment therefore is set out in subsection 4 of the Standing Orders. It states that: “The Speaker may call a Member whose conduct is grossly disorderly to order, and shall order the Member to withdraw immediately from the precincts of the Assembly for a minimum of five days and a maximum of twenty-eight days, including the day of suspension.”

Hon. Speaker, I emphasise “shall.” I know you are patient and wish to treat Members collegially. But this is a House of rules and these are our Standing Orders. Against your patience and reluctance to pronounce the punishment, the Standing Orders mandate that once a Member commits gross disorderly conduct, as Hon. Ndindi Nyoro has done, you have no other option in terms of punishment. The choice is exclusion from the House for a minimum of five days or the maximum stipulated in the law.

This is about the integrity of the House. Do not be patient around it. We can be seeking who to go and speak with out there. Those people are still there. He can go there. We cannot distract from the Standing Orders by allowing a Member to sit as a stranger. Let him suffer the punishment. Hon. Speaker, I urge you to follow the Standing Orders and make the pronouncement they stipulate.

I thank you.

sitting days. You are now a stranger in the House. I can assure you Hon. Members, that many of us in my position have seen it all. This kind of conduct is totally unhelpful; completely unhelpful. There is a book by V.I. Lenin known as Infantile Disorder. You may leave now.

(Hon. Ndindi Nyoro withdrew from the Chamber) Next Order.

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE

(Order for Committee read)

IN THE COMMITTEE

THE KENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) BILL

(National Assembly Bill No. 28 of 2026)

1. (a) in the introductory words by deleting the words “Kenya Revenue Authority Act (in this Act referred to as the “principal Act)” and substituting therefor the words “principal Act”;
2. (b) in paragraph (a) by inserting the words “and substituting therefor the words “appointed under section 6(2)(a) or (e)”” at the end of the paragraph;
3. (c) in paragraph (b)—
   1. (i) by deleting the expression “subsection (1)” and substituting therefor the expression “subsection (2)”;
   2. (ii) inserting the words “and substituting therefor the words “appointed under section 6(2)(e)” at the end of the paragraph;
4. (d) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (b)— “(c) by inserting the following new subsection immediately after subsection (2)—
   1. (3) The Chairperson of the Board may resign his office by written notification addressed to the President.” The import of this amendment lies in three key aspects. First, it aims to clarify the distinction between the tenure of the appointive members of the Board and that of the ex-officio members. Secondly, it specifies the relevant subsection of the Act that the Bill seeks to amend. Thirdly, it ensures that a member of the Board appointed by the Cabinet Secretary, upon wishing to resign, must submit their resignation to the appointing authority. The same applies

to the Chairperson of the Board, who, being appointed by the President, must also resign to the appointing authority, namely, the President.

Thank you. (Question of the amendment proposed) (Question, that the words to be left out be left out, put and agreed to) (Question, that the words to be inserted in place thereof be inserted, put and agreed to) (Question, that the words to be inserted be inserted, put and agreed to) (Clause 2 as amended agreed to) Clause 3

1. 3. Section 8 of the principal Act is amended—
2. (a) in the opening statement—
   1. (i) by deleting the words “other than an ex-officio member”;
   2. (ii) by deleting the words “any other member” appearing immediately after the words “and in the case of” and substituting therefor the words “a member of the Board appointed under section 6(2) (e)”.
3. (b) in paragraph (d), by deleting the word “six” appearing immediately after the words “absent from” and substituting therefor the word “three”.

The import of this is to ensure that the application of Section 8 regarding the termination of the appointment of the chairperson and members is limited solely to appointive members of the Board. Given that the Board convenes on a quarterly basis rather than monthly, it is necessary to implement a consequential amendment stipulating that if a Board member misses three consecutive meetings within a year without justifiable cause, this shall form grounds for termination. In the current scenario, missing six meetings serves as grounds for termination, as the meetings occur monthly.

Thank you. (Question of the amendment proposed) (Question, that the words to be left out be left out, put and agreed to) (Question, that the words to be inserted in

place thereof be inserted, put and agreed to) (Clause 3 as amended agreed to) Clause 4

1. 4. The First Schedule to the principal Act is amended in Part II─
   1. (a) by deleting paragraph 10 and substituting therefor the following new paragraph─
2. 10. The Standards (Standards Levy) Order, 2025
   1. (b) by deleting paragraph 11 and substituting therefor the following new paragraph—
3. 11. The Lands Act.
   1. (c) by deleting paragraph 12 and substituting therefor the following new paragraph—
4. 12. The Sugar (Sugar Development Levy) Order, 2025
   1. (d) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph 15—
5. 16. The Retirement Benefits Authority Act.
6. 17. The Tobacco Control Act
7. 18. The Tea Act.

The justification for this is to provide the proper reference to the written law that imposes the Sugar Development Levy, specifically the Sugar Development Levy Order. Additionally, it aims to offer the correct citation for the Standards Levy Order of 2025. Furthermore, it is necessary to update the current law, which is the Land Act, Cap. 280, and not the Government Land Act, Cap. 280, which has since been repealed.

Lastly, it includes the Tobacco Control Act, Cap. 245A, and the Tea Act, Cap. 343, as additional laws applicable to the collection of the Solatium Levy and the Tea Levy by the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA).

Thank you. (Question of the amendment proposed) (Question, that the words to be left out be left out, put and agreed to) (Question, that the words to be inserted in place thereof be inserted, put and agreed to) (Clause 4 as amended agreed to) New Clause 1A

THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after clause (1)—

Amendment of section 6 of Cap.

1. 469. 1A. Section 6 of the Kenya Revenue Authority Act (in this Act referred to as “the principal Act”) is amended in subsection (2) by inserting the following new paragraph immediately after paragraph (d)—
   1. (e) the Managing Director of Kenya Ports Authority or a designated representative; (The new clause was read a First Time)

Apologies, Hon. Chairlady. When you prompted me on the three new clause, I was moving for all. However, because they are different, allow me to move each on its own.

I beg to move that the new clause 3A be now read a Second Time. This amendment seeks to delete the provision that requires the Commissioner-General to appoint Deputy Commissioners subject to the approval of the Board. This is based on three reasons: Firstly, Deputy Commissioners are technical staff, and their appointment should therefore be made at the level of the Commissioner-General as provided for under Section 13(3).

Secondly, the Board will have adequate time to focus on strategic appointments such as that of the Commissioner-General and Commissioners, rather than appointments relating to operational staff.

Thirdly, the Bill proposes to reduce the number of Board meetings from monthly to quarterly. Therefore, retaining the requirement for the appointment of Deputy Commissioners to be approved by the Board may delay such appointments. Therefore, the amendment seeks to provide that the appointment of Deputy Commissioners be done at the management level, rather than the Board.

I beg to move. (Question, that the new clause be read a Second Time, proposed) (Question, that the new clause be read a Second Time, put and agreed to) (Question, that the new clause be added to the Bill, put and agreed to) New Clause 3B

THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clauses immediately after Clause 3— Amendment of section 13A of Cap. 469. 3B. Section 13A of the principal Act is amended by deleting the words “with the approval of the Cabinet Secretary” appearing immediately after the words “The Commissioner- General may,” and substituting therefor the words “with the approval of the Board”. (The new clause was read a First Time)

The Cabinet Secretary is represented on the Board and, therefore, when the Board approves, the Cabinet Secretary's input is also there.

I beg to move. (Question, that the new clause be read a Second Time, proposed) (Question, that the new clause be read a Second Time, put and agreed to) (Question, that the new clause be added to the Bill, put and agreed to) New Clause 3C

THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clauses immediately after Clause 3— Amendment of section 15 of Cap. 469. 3C. Section 15 of the principal Act is amended—

1. (a) by inserting the words “after deducting such amounts as will have been determined under section 16(1)(a) of this Act” immediately after the words “into the Consolidated Fund”;
2. (b) in the proviso—
   1. (i) by inserting the word “other” immediately after the words “in respect of any;
   2. (ii) by inserting the word “other” immediately after the words “shall be paid into that”.

(The new clause was read a First Time)

1. (1) There shall be established a Consolidated Fund into which shall be paid all money raised or received by or on behalf of the national government, except money that--
2. (a) that is reasonably excluded from the Fund by an Act of Parliament, this includes funds that we create here through Acts of Parliament.
3. (b) may, by an Act of Parliament, be retained by the State organ that received it for the purpose of defraying the expenses of that State organ.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, that is what we are seeking to actualise in light of that provision of the Constitution, by allowing all revenues collected by due date and payable to the Authority under this Act to be paid into the Consolidated Fund. The amendment seeks to allow KRA to appropriate such amounts as are necessary to fund its operational expenses. This gives the Authority greater flexibility in accessing funds for its operational expenses.

At times KRA collects the money. It is the Authority that goes through all the riguors of collecting the revenue, but the money goes into the Consolidated Fund and KRA has no access to the Consolidated Fund other than through the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning. It takes them ages to get Exchequer Issues yet they are the ones bringing this money into the pot. This amendment, therefore, gives them operational efficiency and is a very consequential amendment. Now that KRA is going to have this kind of financial autonomy, the Commisioner-General must ensure that we must see results in terms of the revenue mobilization that we expect from the Authority

Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. I beg to move. (Question, that the new clause be read a Second Time proposed) (Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe spoke off the record)

1. (a) in subsection (1)—
2. (i) by deleting the words “not exceeding two percent” appearing in paragraph (a) and substituting therefor the words “not less than two percent”; (ii) by deleting paragraph (b) and substituting therefor the following new paragraph— “(b) three percent of the revenue actually collected in any Quarter of the financial year in excess of the amount estimated to be collected in respect of that Quarter;”
3. (b) in subsection 2(b) by deleting the words “shall be payable to the Authority within one month after the end of that three month period” and substituting

therefor the words “shall be retained by the Authority at the end of the month following the end of the Quarter.” (The new clause was read a First Time)

THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after Clause 4— Amendment of the Second Schedule to Cap.

1. 469.
   1. 5. The Second Schedule to the principal Act is amended by deleting paragraph 1(1) and substituting therefor the following new subparagraphs—
   2. (1) The first meeting of the Board shall be convened by the Chairperson.

(1A) The subsequent meeting of the Board shall be on a quarterly basis. (1B) Despite subsection (1A), the Board may hold a special meeting when the Chairperson, in consultation with the Commissioner-General, decides a meeting is necessary. (The new clause was read a First Time)

(Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 28 of 2026) and its approval thereof with amendments.

(Question proposed)

IN THE HOUSE

MOTION

CONSIDERATION OF REPORT ON THE KENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY BILL

BILL

Third Reading

THE KENYA REVENUE AUTHORITY (AMENDMENT) BILL

(National Assembly Bill No. 28 of 2026)

BILL

Second Reading

THE STRATEGIC GOODS CONTROL BILL

(National Assembly Bill No. 15 of 2026)

Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is a very huge Bill basically because it covera a lot of items that were initially covered under very many other statutes. We do not have a particular law in this country that deals with strategic goods. I know many people listening would be wondering what these strategic goods are. Probably, we should just begin by defining what strategic goods are.

Strategic goods are goods that can be used for military use. They include items, software or technologies that have military applications, or can be used to develop weapons of mass destruction and their delivery systems. For instance, something like a fertiliser which can be used to produce a bomb is a strategic good. It could be a drone that you can use to deliver items or even a software or technology that can be for military use. Those are strategic goods which ought to be controlled. The trade of such goods ought to be controlled.

Over the years, we never had a single law on trade in such strategic goods. We have been relying on separate sector laws, which have led to duplication, weak information sharing and regulatory gaps. For instance, things that are biohazard in nature that are being dealt with by the biohazard authorities without the knowledge of other authorities. The military, the police or even the port authorities may not know who is bringing what goods into the country or taking them out of the country.

The same thing applies to other items like dual-use items. Such technologies also have the capacity to be used for military purposes but some are largely used for domestic use. In the recent past, you have seen even young kids flying drones in our neighbourhoods. Nobody is able to tell whether these drones are of military grade. Are they things that can be used to deliver weapons of mass destruction in our neighbourhoods? Therefore, it is important that we have a specific law that puts all the statutes that deal with these strategic goods under one Act.

The primary objectives of this Bill are, first, to control trade in strategic goods and related services. Second, to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery. This is because if we do not control chemical and biological weapons and their means of delivery, we will end up with people trading in such strategic goods without the knowledge of authorities. The third objective is to domesticate the United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 1540 and meet Kenya's obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and the Treaty of Pelindaba.

The fourth objective is to create one national legal framework for inter-agency coordination and information sharing. This will ensure that we do not have duplicity of laws. There are those laws dealing with nuclear energy issues that will deal with weapons that have nuclear capability. There are also the Pharmacy and Poisons Board statutes dealing with chemicals and pharmaceuticals that could have the potential of being used as weaponry. Even Kenya Plant Health Inspectorate Service (KEPHIS) deal with plants and other biological things that could be used to develop biological weapons.

We want to consolidate all these statutes under one statute. That is why this Bill is actually one of the biggest Bills that we have had to deal with in this Parliament, with close to 700 pages. I know many Members have gone through it because many were keen to know what these strategic goods are. There is no rice, maize, fish, or cattle. The Member from Mwea was very keen. She came to my office looking for this Bill, telling me, “I want to see that Bill, and see whether these strategic goods have anything to do with Mwea rice farmers.” I told her, “My dear, Mwea rice farmers are very safe”. I know she has been very keen even in ensuring that farmers in Mwea are paid their dues. She followed up until farmers in Mwea were paid. The kind of diligence I have seen with the Member for Mwea in being able to stand and speak for her people, is the kind of diligence I would like to see in Members of the 13th Parliament. Were it not for the Member from Mwea, the Exchequer to pay farmers in Mwea would not have been released. I remember going with her to Wang’uru Stadium, where she asserted that before the

end of the week, people should be paid. The following day, money was flowing in Mwea Town. Only that she never invited me when there was money flowing in that town, even after assuring her that strategic goods do not include rice. She is now bearing witness because she went through this Bill, almost letter by letter trying to confirm. She asked me, “Is there a soft copy where I can quickly search rice?” I told her that this is about weapons.

That is why these strategic goods are being considered by the Committee that deals with national security, led by Hon. Tongoyo, who I must commend. Hon. Tongoyo and Hon. Raso are seasoned parliamentarians. They are very diligent people. Their Committee has conducted very extensive public participation to ensure that we are not just dealing with nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction, but that even biological warfare in this day and age cannot be advanced in our country without the knowledge of security agencies. I was saying this to communicate that we will now be able to protect our national security while also facilitating legitimate trade and investor confidence. This is because some of the strategic goods are things that we use on a day-to-day basis. They include fertilisers, as I mentioned. There are biological organisms that are used in laboratories for manufacture of pharmaceuticals and chemicals, but which could also be used as weapons of mass destruction. As much as they are beneficial in our day-to-day lives, they can also be used as weapons. It is, therefore, important that we guarantee our security and the security of our nation and the world at large while also facilitating legitimate trade. That is why this Bill is very important.

Some of the core contents of this Bill, on the national control list in Clause 4 and the Schedule, is a list of the strategic goods covered under the Act. They including nuclear materials, chemicals, biological agents, toxins, electronics, telecommunications and information security, sensors and lasers, marine systems, and aerospace propulsion systems. It is important for it to be clear on what are strategic goods and what are not strategic goods. This is because some might be very simple electronics like drones that people use to shoot videos and take photos, but one that can be used to convey weapons that can destroy humanity. Others could be simple things such as sensors and lasers. The lasers you see our fundis using to measure distance could also be used as weapons, or used to trigger bombs. Even sensors can be used to trigger bombs that could destroy the security and safety of our people. Therefore, we have a list of these things.

Clause 4 and the Schedule of the Bill list all the strategic goods. That will allow Kenyans to be aware when trading in them and to seek all the relevant approvals to shield them from being caught unawares.

Clauses 5 and 6 of the Bill propose the establishment of the Strategic Goods Control Committee, a multi-agency body which will coordinate and oversee strategic trade regulation in Kenya. Again, this Committee will bring together key Government institutions responsible for national security, trade regulation, law enforcement, and international cooperation. It will bring together defence, finance, ICT, health, trade industries, as well as the Solicitor-General, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF), the National Intelligence Service (NIS), the National Police Service (NPS), the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), as I had mentioned earlier, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA), the private sector through the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KNCCI). This is meant to ensure that all stakeholders within the trade spectrum are factored into the Committee, so that items that are not necessarily strategic goods are not classified as such and curtail trade. That is why the KNCCI and KEPSA have been incorporated in that Committee.

Clauses 7 and 8 mention the Secretariat and the Director who are also hosted in the Ministry responsible for internal security. The Secretariat maintains a database, monitors strategic trade and inspects the end use of such strategic goods.

I do not want to belabour all these things because as I said, this is a huge Bill. Therefore, I do not need to go into every item provided for by each clause in the 1,700-page Bill. However,

consequential amendments in Clauses 44 to 53 align firearms, explosives, nuclear regulatory, pharmacy and poisons, mining, fertilisers, animal foodstuffs and the pest control products acts with this law. As I said before, many statutes were touching on potentially strategic goods. Therefore, consequential amendments are necessary. We will incorporate them during the Committee of the whole House, over and above what has already been provided for in the Bill.

During public participation, the Committee engaged with the public on many key issues. I will allow my seconder, the Chairman of the Committee, to touch on some of the issues that were raised by the public. Going through the Report, I could see that Kenyans in Nyeri, Laikipia, Kisumu, Uasin Gishu, Mombasa and Kwale counties supported this Bill. I raised several issues, which they also raised. Part of what stood out was the public asking whether the Bill would raise the cost of living and that of doing business. They asked whether the cost of items such as gas, fertiliser or electronics would go up. I just want to assert to Kenyans that the Bill does not seek to set any new taxes or prices on these strategic goods. It is basically just seeking to control and regulate what and how we trade.

The Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB), the Kenya Nuclear Regulatory Authority (KNRA) and other regulatory bodies feared the overlap with existing regulators. During public participation, the Committee assured them that there would be no overlap once we consolidate all these regulations into one parent Act.

This is a huge Bill, and I know Members will debate it. I urge all of us to support it. It is a very important Bill, because as I said, dual-use items are strategic goods that, on a day-to- day basis, may look very harmless, but have the potential to be militarised and become weapons of mass destruction that could destroy humanity, and in return destroy the peace and tranquility that we enjoy. That includes some small aviation items.

As I was watching CNN or CBC News last night, I came across the unfortunate incident of the attempted hijacking of the Flydubai Airline flight. The criminal co-pilot or First Officer who attempted to injure and kill the captain of that flight used a very simple gadget that is usually behind the captain’s seat. That highlights the danger that small items that are otherwise meant to be put to good use can pose. The item that I saw looked like a small axe and is supposed to help you get out of a plane if you get stuck in a cockpit or if there is an emergency landing or an unfortunate crash and you are unhurt. It is supposed to enable you to break out or even break a window. However, an insane person tried to use it to kill many people.

We all use public transport, whether it is aeroplanes or buses. Small items can be used to break the window of a bus. For those who use buses that do not have windows that can be opened, a weapon can be used against a driver to cause an accident. We must be very careful to ensure that we guard the people that we represent.

Now that I have spoken about the aviation sector, I will also speak to our brothers and sisters in the Gulf Region. Many of us use Gulf Airlines like Emirates, Flydubai, Etihad and Qatar Airways. They are good. In fact, I was a very regular and frequent flyer on Qatar Airways until this summer, when I was confronted by a very unfortunate incident. It was very careless of that airline, and I have since written to them. We were booked on a flight from Nairobi through Doha and onwards to Los Angeles.

As we were leaving Nairobi, there was a slight delay, whose cause the airline did not inform us about. We were told that we would have to stop in Doha for 24 hours to connect to our flight to Los Angeles. I asked the airline staff at the airport whether they had an immediate connecting flight. We were to land at about 5.00 a.m. or 6.00 a.m. and take off for the United States of America (USA) at 7.30 a.m. However, they told us that we had to spend a whole day and night in Doha and take off the following day. I told them not to take off from Nairobi if they were not sure that they would get us a flight out of Doha in the morning. I was with my entire family. To my dismay, I found out that the Qataris had information that there would be

missile attacks in Doha. In fact, there were missile attacks in Doha, yet they were putting all of us in jeopardy because they wanted to protect their country and the image of their airline.

We flew from Nairobi, and it took us another painstaking eight hours in Doha before we got a flight out of Doha. It was not until I was in Doha for four hours that I found out that the delays were due to missile attacks the night before. They knew about it, but they did not inform their passengers. That was very irresponsible of Qatar Airways. I ceased flying with Qatar Airways since then. I have written to them because it was irresponsible. It is okay to protect your economy, but it is not justifiable to put other people in danger.

Yesterday, our country reported its first Ebola case. A responsible administration, government or entity shares information. Today, Jambojet Airlines, which ferried that passenger from Uganda to Nairobi, is helping the authorities with contact tracing. That helps in stemming the spread of the disease. I wondered if Qatar Airways were this careless that they could jeopardise the safety of over 200 passengers on one aeroplane from Nairobi, how many other airlines were flying into and out of Doha that night? They want to remain silent because the negative news would affect the Qatari economy. I must say it is not fair to the rest of the world. We sympathise with them because they are a friendly nation, but we must ask them to treat other people in the world, including Kenyans and other Africans, with the respect for human life that they would want for their own nationalities.

I sought to divert to that because it is not a weapon of mass destruction in terms of strategic goods, but to say there could be strategic information there. If you know you are about to be hit by the Iranians or others, it is only fair to share that information with your passengers so that you do not jeopardise their safety. Therefore, when you talk about strategic goods, that is why we are saying it is not just items, it also speaks to software, to technology that can be used and to information that can be used to destroy humanity or to encourage the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, allow me to move and request the Chairperson of this Committee, who put in a lot of work moving around the country explaining to Kenyans what these strategic goods are and why it is important to control their trade, to second this Bill.

I beg to move.

because of the lack of a centralised framework. There is also a lack of regulation; I mean, of course, there are obvious and glaring regulatory gaps which this Bill intends to cure.

There are also weak inter-agency coordination, inconsistent enforcement standards and reduced capacity to detect and respond to emerging threats involving strategic goods, among many others. The Strategic Goods Control Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 15 of 2026), which is being considered, having been sponsored by our able Leader of the Majority Party, seeks to address these challenges by establishing a Strategic Goods Control Committee to facilitate inter-agencies coordination, information sharing and harmonisation of regulatory measures, strategic monitoring and national oversight over strategic goods activities.

Strategic goods, as earlier alluded to and rightfully put by the Leader of the Majority Party, include dual-use technologies, advanced communication systems, hazardous materials, military equipment and sensitive software, which may pose significant national security threats if inadequately monitored and issues highlighted by the stakeholders are many. During the public participation process, the Committee, beyond engaging the public, had very extensive and productive engagements and interactions with key stakeholders. Among them was the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, the Office of the Attorney-General (OAG), the Embassy of the United States of America, Kenya Airports Authority (KAA), Kenya Airways (KQ), Public Benefit Organisations Regulatory Authority (PBORA), Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), Kenya Law Reform Commission (KLRC), the State Department for Trade, State Department for Mining, Kenya Nuclear Regulatory Authority, which is among the state agencies that have been managing such strategic goods that will be directly affected by this law, Pharmacy and Poison Boards (PPB), Kenya Association of Manufacturers (KAM) among many others.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, through the deep interaction and discussion with these stakeholders, very many critical and important security issues of this country came out that buttress that this Bill is long overdue. Among them, just to mention a few, were issues of the proliferation of dangerous technologies, terrorism financing and support, illicit trafficking, cyber threats, diversion of strategic materials and unlawful cross-border transfers. Different regulatory authorities oversee strategic goods independently under separate statutes and this creates overlapping mandates, inconsistent regulatory standards, weak coordination and regulatory loopholes exploitable by criminal actors. Considering the era we are in, that becomes an issue of urgency that needs to be addressed.

The Bill establishes a national coordination framework without interfering with sector- specific mandate, and I say this without fear of contradiction. We were very keen lest we interfered with the issue that was already assigned to another institution; probably, assigned by the Constitution and governed by the statutes of this House. We were also very clear from the start that we wanted to coordinate the performance of these strategic goods and services in an efficient manner. Technological evolution in Artificial Intelligence (AI), cyber-crimes by chemicals and drones, quantum technologies, and digital trade expanded the scope and complexity of strategic goods regulation. The Bill creates institutional mechanisms for coordinated monitoring of this emerging threats. Therefore, we all have to appreciate the era that we are in.

Kenya has an obligation. I heard very clearly the Leader of the Majority Party trying to explain in length, the obligations that we are assigned to as a country, and which we must at all times comply with. Kenya has an obligation under various international instruments relating to non-proliferation, anti-terrorism strategic goods controls, customs cooperation, and trans- national crimes prevention. The Bill that is being considered before this House strengthens Kenya’s capacity to meet these international obligations through a coordinated national implementation framework.

A coordinated framework enhances efficiency, transparency, investors’ confidence, trade facilitation, and administrative accountability. The overall intention of this Bill, to just emphasise, Hon. Temporary Speaker, is to regulate the end-use and the end-users of the strategic goods for a safety and security perspective. This does not in any way stifle trade. I also heard the Leader of Majority Party talking about increased cost of living and so on.

This Bill is long over-due. It is extremely critical and important at this time in this era. Therefore, we need to pass it as a House so that our strategic goods, explosives, and other products can have a framework that is wholistic in terms of control. That way, we can ensure safety at all time as we meet our obligations as a country. Of course, I do not want to belabour too much because the Report is available. It is voluminous; about 700 pages. I call upon this House to take time to read it and interrogate the Bill.

With those few remarks, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I second.

You must recognise the status that Hon. Dido Raso carries to this Floor. Hon. Dido Raso will contribute.

still be converted for another use that may eventually harm the population. With the current wars in the Middle East and Europe, particularly in Ukraine, the issue of strategic goods control has become more pronounced and important than ever. Today, drones that farmers use to apply fertiliser in their shambas can also carry payloads and be weaponised. There are parts of an aircraft that can be used in the making of missile technologies and in the manufacture of warlike material. This Bill is important because it seeks to safeguard many things.

The Bill also talks about licensing, regulation, transit and transshipment. Kenya today is a gateway to East Africa, Horn of Africa, and many countries through our airports and ports. Strategic goods arrive at our airports which are entry points into the region. Therefore, we have to be concerned that these materials are not diverted by non-State actors. The Chairperson also talked about terrorism, where, at any point, non-State actors will try to prey on States to see whether they will lax their controls on the movement of these strategic goods.

Emerging technologies, AI, supercomputing, and supply-chain security all bring alive the need for us to do things differently from the way we have been conducting trade. We tend to look at the Ministry of Trade, the National Treasury, and the ports in a very simplistic manner, yet as far as national security is concerned, many things could go wrong if we have criminal elements and syndicates involved.

I wish to talk about the law, particularly the United Nations Security Council Resolution

1. 1540. Kenya is a signatory to the Biological Weapons Convention, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and the African Nuclear Weapon Free Zone. The United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 is the genesis of the strategic goods control system or structure. Its attempt is to make sure that proliferation weapons of mass destruction to non-State actors is not compromised by any State. For that reason, the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 is an obligation for all States to implement it. Having signed it at the United Nations Security Council, Kenya has no alternative but to ensure that the resolution becomes part of the municipal law of this land. What are the economic benefits of this law? First, we have trade flows. Countries that have signed the Specific Trade Concern (STC) are able to trade with each other. There is confidence, predictability, security, and accountability of those goods. Bilateral trade flows are reported by different States that have signed this law. Second, Hon. Temporary Speaker, is about Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Recently, we have had the case of…

conglomerates that can invest in our country are not likely to bring their resources here. That confidence must be created by all of us, as a House, agreeing to pass this Bill and have it become the law of the land.

Finally, is the emerging technologies. They are the reason why the STC is necessary. At this point in time, Kenya wants to move forward. Kenya is getting new technology every day. If we do not invest in it, and if we do not have the right laws in place, then it means we are likely to lose the country through some carelessness. That can be stopped by having clear statutes in place.

With those many remarks, I want to say that this Bill is about protection and control. At the same time, we safeguard security, but it does not, in any way, increase taxation or cause any problem in terms of the standard of living and all those things people think about. We would like to ensure that what we are doing is orderly and under one roof. We would also like to ensure that the hazardous materials that come into our country are properly managed.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is the purpose of this law? Why are we passing it? One, it will provide control in strategic goods and related services, the way I have said it. Trade in these commodities must be controlled.

Two, prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their means of delivery. We have seen that fertiliser is good for agriculture. However, you can do other things with fertiliser, like using it as bomb material. So, we need to prevent that. If you find someone with a certain tonnage of fertiliser or uranium, you should be worried. So, it is very important to control this trade.

Three, we need to domesticate the UN Security Council Resolution 1540 and meet Kenya's obligation under the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The Biological Weapons Convention, the Chemical Weapons Convention, and other treaties need to be domesticated so that we do not just protect ourselves as a country but also protect the world. We have an obligation as a country to also protect the world against weapons of mass destruction or weapons and goods that can be misused to destroy the world.

Lastly, we need to create one national framework for interagency coordination and information sharing. I heard the Majority Leader talk about what happened to him. What lacked was just one thing, information sharing. If information had been properly shared, probably it would not have delayed. That is why the Americans always issue travel advisories although sometimes people think that these travel advisories are bad.

One day I asked why Americans issue travel advisories and I was told – if you remember the Lockerbie bombing – that somebody had information that would have saved the Lockerbie bombing, but because he was bound by law not to release the information to any other person apart from his government and the people on his chain of command, he withheld that information. Even though he knew that the information could have saved the world, he did not share it. After that bombing, the gentleman came out and said he had the information. It is from that background that America passed a law that such information must be shared. That is why they issue travel advisories. Even if the likelihood of danger is only 10 per cent, they must share that information. So, information sharing is very important.

I just want to say a few things that are in the Bill. One, the Bill lists the strategic goods covered under this Act which include nuclear materials, chemicals, biological reagents and agents, toxins, electronics, telecommunication and information security sensors and lasers, marine systems, aerospace and propulsions. I know someone else was looking for rice. I can see the Member of Parliament from Mwea. She was looking for rice. There is no rice here. I want to restate that what is here is nuclear materials, chemicals, biological reagents and agents, toxins, electronics, telecommunications and information security sensors, lasers, marine systems, aerospace and propulsion. These are the goods that we are talking about. These goods can be put to good use but if they fall in the hands of wrong people, they can be dangerous to the world.

In the Bill, a committee called “the Strategic Goods Control Committee” will be formed to ensure that it controls trade in these areas. That is found in clauses 5 and 6. The Bill proposes

the establishment of the Strategic Goods and Control Committee. This multi-agency body will coordinate and oversee strategic trade regulation in Kenya. So, an important body will be formed. Who will be the members of this body? The Committee will bring together key Government institutions responsible for national security, trade regulation, law enforcement, and international cooperation. It will also bring together defence, finance, ICT, health, trade, the Solicitor-General, KDF, the NIS, the National Police, Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the private sector through the KEPSA, and the National Chamber of Commerce. This is what will form the Strategic Goods Control Committee that will regulate trade in strategic goods.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Secretariat is actually provided for in Clause 7 and is hosted by the Ministry responsible for internal security. That is why the Hon. Tongoyo's Committee took care of this Bill. The Secretariat will maintain the database, monitor strategic trade, and inspect end-use.

I can see the red light is on, Hon. Temporary Speaker, but you can see I am doing something good. And any man doing something good deserves a favour.

permits that. They can come to your house and find out what kind of equipment you have, and this law permits that.

goods, weapons of mass destruction, or nationally controlled goods. The most important aspect, in my opinion, is the matter of dual-use goods, as military and security-related items are easy to identify. This is where the challenge arises. There are goods used for civil purposes and others for military applications.

The same Bill, therefore, defines the end-user as any owner of the strategic goods. Literally, the objective of the Bill is to control trade in strategic goods. So, it simply means that if, at any given time, one has to do any business or trade in any of the goods that have been defined as strategic goods and have been included in the national control list, one must suffer the fate of dual or multiple licensing and regulations.

The first implication of the Bill is that, truth be told, people might want to play around or try to be very clever and speak to assuage the fears of Kenyans, but it is going to cost extra to trade goods that shall enter into the list of national control lists. If you look at clauses 9 and 43 of the Bill, they impose a fee to be paid for one to be registered and given a certificate to trade in strategic goods. That is point number one. No other story will hide the truth; my job is to tell my wananchi the truth. Nothing else but the truth.

Second, it imposes a separate additional registration level. For one to do business in any strategic good, and that could even be a walkie-talkie, they must register. If one imports such a walkie-talkie and intends to sell it to politicians to communicate when they are trying to escape from genocide, as happened to some of us a few months ago, then it means one must register, prepay a fee and go through a rigorous and onerous process.

That very onerous compliance requirement is going to make it extremely difficult for local small businesses to get involved in any of the businesses. Even in the case of state capture, even a basic tool could be included in the national list and be termed a “control list” or “good of dual use”, so that they prevent, curtail, or create a kind of monopolistic trade environment.

Third, it imposes some conditions for end-use control. The way the Bill is created, even a mobile phone could easily enter into the national control list. It imposes regulations and conditions, as contained in clauses 12 and 15 of the Bill.

I urge Kenyans to get the soft copy of the Bill, and train their eyes on Part III and Part IV since it is very voluminous. That is where the devil is. They will tell you the “angel” is how they want to control to make sure Kenyans are safe by ensuring there is no proliferation of nuclear materials, all those very sound words, but the devil is in the details, which are contained in Part III and Part IV.

One can easily be shut out because the vetting committee is the one that reviews you. Such committee can deny one a licence to operate a business simply on the grounds that one is a threat to national security. Just because one was seen throwing a stone at a rally somewhere, so one is declared a threat to national security, and they are denied!

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Bill also proposes to amend a plethora of existing legislation. In some of this existing legislation, we are becoming overcautious. The Pest Control Products Act is being amended to make all the items listed there to become strategic goods. The Fertilisers and Animal Foodstuffs Act is also being amended. The subsidised fertiliser that we are normally given will also have to go through this process. An importer, distributor or end-user might be required to register, obtain a certificate, and get licensed.

On the Mining Act, when you mine gold or the basics in Nyatike or Siaya, you will be required to register. The Pharmacy and Poisons Act, the Nuclear Regulatory Act, the Explosives Act and the Firearms Act are also affected.

I admit that I have not read the Committee Report. I do not know what members of the public said or what comments they gave. Unfortunately, Chairperson of the Committee has left, but I hope and pray that they listened to Kenyans and that public participation is not in vain. From where I sit and having had interactions, this is being driven by foreigners, not Kenyans per se. The fear is that some of the technologies we can develop locally can be used

to engage or deter them and therefore want to control, so that we Africans and Kenyans have no opportunity to develop those items.

As usual, many of the provisions in this Bill… The Bill, in general, is not a generic Bill generated by Kenya to solve any imminent danger. As we stand, we have enough laws to manage all these strategic goods. They simply want us to come together so that they can control how we manage all these items. It is just akin to the agreement we signed in December to share medical records with the United States of America (USA). We find ourselves where we are now because we have been forced to come from Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF), and to now go to something else so that the Americans can have easy access to the medical records of Kenyans.

The most alarming thing, again, is that some items of technology have been placed on the strategic goods list. For example, wireless local area network. If you wire your office to do internal communication and email, or print wirelessly, that again can constitute a strategic good. They literally want to strangle and control our lives. I hope they will manage weapons of mass destruction so that we do not see the same weapons we saw in the Homa Bay on 16th August, of the year of the Lord, 2026.

With those few remarks, I support and I hope the views of Kenyans will be incorporated in the final Bill. Thank you.

Japan, New Zealand, and Australia. These are some of the countries that have done it before. Why do I think they have done it and they are successful countries? It is because there are certain goods and services that are of value to their states.

This Bill is very clear. What do we define as a strategic good or service? This has been articulated by many of us. In as much as we have said these goods and services, we must be very careful because we need to state whether they are in raw material form or finished products. That is a deficiency in this Bill. This is because if we are talking about gas, we need to know whether it is raw material or refined. If it is about gold, we need to know what state of gold falls in this category. Same thing for diamond.

All in all, it is very important because people have taken advantage of Africa, specifically. Anybody can operate in Africa, and even in this country where we are. Some of these strategic goods are the focus of all businesspeople, both professional and unscrupulous businesspeople. It is, therefore, very important that we have regulations. We must have mechanisms and a deposit of all the important ingredients that we need to put in place so that we have a stable environment for doing business.

It is true that we need to be careful about our security. I was listening to the contribution about drones and one of their importers is right beside me. I am wondering what would happen if I imported unassembled drone and came to assemble it locally. This Bill also lacks a clause on assembling because I can assemble items like drones here, but you are waiting for me to go and register it with the regulator. We need to be very careful about this issue. We can rush to control the fertiliser, but we are not rushing to control the ingredients used to produce it. The fertiliser can be used as a weapon at any stage. It only depends on the technology that is being used to manufacture it. So, it is very important we control weapons.

However, if we do not have strict border controls, this might be an issue. This is because the assumption is that everything passes through Namanga, Malaba, the ports or the airports. I do not know how this will be implemented. It is good to say that we will pass the border control regulation in the Bill, but we are not saying how and where we are going to do it. It is good that we are obliged with international regulations. However, who are the biggest businesspeople in this country? Majority of them are foreigners. They are the ones controlling many of the strategic goods and services.

In the ICT sector, for example, the internet is not being controlled from Kenya. Unless we develop it ourselves, how are we going to control Artificial Intelligence, Starlink, and other facilities and services that are being provided by somebody else? These are very serious issues the Bill needs to address.

The other issue is: our local manufacturers control the goods, but can they control the money being used? We have gold, diamond and aluminium, but are we in control of the money? Yes, we can control the goods but once we import and export strategic goods, the Bill must state clearly how the money movement from these strategic goods will be managed and controlled. I agree that there is multi-agency involvement, but we also need to be very careful. Where do we place money? It is a very strategic good but, in this case, I do not know at what point we define money as a transaction value. That dollar is a good by itself. As we control gold, we should remember that money is also a valuable and strategic good. Money in a vault, it is paper, but when it is in circulation, it is a very important good. Therefore, the Bill must revisit that.

As I said earlier, there are items and even animals that face extinction, particularly rhinos and elephants. Are they defined here? The game park and other animal conservancies need to be protected and regulated. That is why my colleagues are saying, there are certain things that we need to look at because we can pass a Bill that is going stifle other institutions which are doing similar activities.

In Kenya, we are known for penalties. We will ask you to say a penalty of, say, Ksh5 million, or Ksh10,000 and all that. However, the penalties in this need to be revisited because we are dealing with very strategic items. I support the Bill, but we need to bring in some amendments to incorporate those omitted.

Even dumping is another thing. Sorry for going there. We can dump certain things here, and it is a very serious economic issue. Once those goods come here, because they are being dumped here, we do not think much about them, but they are very strategic. It is, therefore, very important that as we go through this Bill, we look at items like those ones.

The Bill is good, but we need to rethink some of those items. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

to engage in business without any problems. We should be very careful and pass this law because it will help us with security.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the establishment of the Strategic Goods Control Bill (National Assembly Bill, No. 15 of 2026) of which I note in Clause 5, is very important so that we bring coordination. What I love about this is the fact that it has been made too broad, that it brings various agencies of Government; whether you are talking about the Kenya Defence Forces, NIS, ICT departments, finance, health, trade, Kenya Revenue Authority or National Police Service. The other interesting bit is that it is bringing in the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) and the Kenya National Chamber of Commerce and Industry. I have heard some of my colleagues, Hon. Temporary Speaker, speak as if this could be a way where legitimate businesses people might be strangled. I do not think that is true because we are bringing in the business community representations into this Committee. We will make sure there is fairness in it. I do not think anyone should feel that this Bill is meant to strangle anyone; I think it is right and positioned in the right place at such time as this.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have also noted that the Secretariat will have a director to manage its operations, with representatives from Government and the private sector. The coordinator will have a secretariat headed by a director and placed under the Cabinet Secretary responsible for internal security. The Secretariat will essentially maintain a database to monitor strategic trade and inspect end use. This is critical because when we undertake these importations, we need to understand their ultimate end use. This must be monitored.

Earlier when making this introduction, I said that Kenya is well positioned globally. When benchmarking against other countries, you will note that Singapore has a Strategic Goods Control Act, while Malaysia has a Strategic Trade Act which was passed in 2010. In fact, we are way behind. The United Kingdom (UK) enacted its legislation in 2002, while the European Union has a dual-use regulation. Countries such as South Africa have non- proliferation and arms control legislation. Equally, the USA has the Export Control Reform Act and the Arms Control Act.

What does this mean? We are positioning ourselves globally as a country where people can come and trade with confidence. We have put in place safeguards to ensure secure trade. We will also become one of the countries that others benchmark when developing similar laws.

Once this Bill is passed, the business community will have a year to align its operations. Individual licences will run for three years. This gives businesses sufficient time to operate without frequent licence applications, provided they maintain good conduct and comply with the requirements. For global companies, general licences will run for five years.

In my view, this Bill is well positioned and is addressing the issues at hand. We welcome persons with different views and perspectives. However, I believe the Bill is in the right place, and we welcome it.

I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

(The Bill was read a Second Time and Committed to Committee of the whole House) Next Order.

MOTIONS

ADOPTION OF 10TH REPORT ON AUDITED ACCOUNTS OF SPECIFIED STATE CORPORATIONS

1. 1. National Youth Service for the Financial Years 2019/2020, 2020/2021, 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024 and 2024/2025.
2. 2. National Syndemic Diseases Control Council for the Financial Year 2024/2025.
3. 3. Child Welfare Society of Kenya for the Financial Year 2024/2025.
4. 4. Public Benefit Organisations Regulatory Authority for the Financial Year 2024/2025.
5. 5. Communications Authority of Kenya for the Financial Year 2024/2025.
6. 6. Kenya Medical Supplies Authority for the Financial Year 2022/2023.
7. 7. Agricultural Finance Corporation for the Financial Years 2012/2013, 2013/2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016, 2016/2017, 2017/2018 and 2018/2019.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, in the examination of the financial statements of the various

State corporations, we relied on the following instruments: the Public Finance Management

Act, 2012; the Public Audit Act, 2015; the State Corporations Act, 1986; the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, 2015; the National Assembly Standing Orders and the National Assembly Powers and Privileges Act, 2017.

We considered this Report in various strata. At the first level, we considered the specific and general observations and recommendations that cut across the seven agencies. One major issue that remains a thorn in the flesh of our various agencies is the lack of ownership documents, especially for land and buildings. The Communications Authority of Kenya, the National Youth Service, the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority and the Agricultural Finance Corporation have many parcels of land spread across the country. However, they do not have title deeds or other documents of title for various parcels of land. Some of these parcels of land have disputes.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would like to be specific. The Communications Authority of Kenya (CA) does not have the title documents for the land that hosts the Modika Radio Monitoring Station in Garissa County. The National Youth Service had not fenced its parcels of land measuring approximately 2,247 hectares located in Yatta, Mavoloni, Athi River, Mombasa Technical Institute and Mwatate, exposing them to encroachment. This is

contravention of Section 72(1) of the Public Finance Management Act, especially Cap. 412A where the accounting officers are required to manage assets and liabilities in a manner that ensures value for money in their acquisition, use and disposal.

The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority could not provide the original title documents for six parcels of land located in Nairobi, Eldoret, Garissa, Mombasa, Kakamega Greenside and Kakamega Depot PGH. The Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) has a parcel of land located in Kisumu Municipality, valued at approximately Ksh25 million, which has been encroached by a private developer who acquired ownership rights over the property. The matter is under investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), pending determination.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is also a parcel of land in Kakamega Municipality measuring about 0.9852 hectares, valued at Ksh7.5 million. It was exchanged for a parcel of land whose value was Ksh3.3 million. However, the details of the exchange were not provided for audit review, although both parcels of land were disclosed in the financial statements.

Agricultural Finance Corporation does not possess ownership documents for the parcel of land, LR No. 110348/3, measuring 0.0622 hectares, located in Busia County. With those details, we had to make some decisions on the findings. Within a period of six months, upon adoption of this Report, the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Lands should conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the ownership of all parcels of land owned by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs). The objective of the inquiry is to ensure that all public land vests in the respective government entities, with the legal title deeds and possession. In this respect, the Departmental Committee on Lands shall propose a Bill for enactment that provides for the vesting custody of the public land title deeds in the National Treasury.

This is a practice, but it is not a law. In practice, we vest the public land title deeds in the National Treasury. MDAs have title deeds in their own names. For clean and neat National Registry, we propose the National Treasury to have it. We also propose that a comprehensive land register for all public land shall always be maintained by the National Treasury, with regular updates, when necessary.

There is also the second cross-cutting issue on the delay in availing documents to the Auditor-General. We noted and observed that the KEMSA and National Youth Service failed to provide complete and reconciled financial and accounting records and documentation in time for audit review and verification during the exercise, leading to unnecessary queries. The documents were there. When they appeared before the Committee, they produced them. However, they were missing during the audit. When they came before the Committee, where did these documents come from and why were they not availed to the auditors? This is provided for in law.

Article 226 of the Constitution constitutes the office of the Auditor-General. Failure to submit documents to the Auditor-General contravenes this Article and the subsequent Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. Section 68(2) of PMF Act, 2012 requires that financial and accounting records be presented within three months after the close of the financial year. Therefore, it is an obligation of the accounting officers to present the accounting documents. All the documents that the Auditor-General requires must be presented within three months, after the closure of the accounting period.

We made a recommendation on this. We said that all accounting officers should always comply with Section 68(2) of the PFM Act. They should submit all the required information for audit within the stipulated timelines. We also said that an accounting officer who fails to provide the required information for audit, pursuant to Section 62(1) of the Public Audit Act (Cap. 412B), should be prosecuted for the offence.

Another cross-cutting issue was on long outstanding receivables. We noted that some of these State corporations experience challenges in recovering outstanding debts. This is

coupled with the lack of collection or recovery mechanisms. They do not have any recovery mechanisms on how to recover or collect the money. There is lack of effective debt management policies, poor record systems and coordination between the debtors and recipient entities. Some of the entities which I want to highlight did not have the corresponding documentation to link the dates to the various agencies. For instance, Child Welfare Society of Kenya had long outstanding receivables amounting to Ksh6.1 million which have been outstanding for over three years. The KEMSA received Ksh1,653,753,790 which had been outstanding for more than 360 days. For an agency like KEMSA to have an outstanding figure of Ksh1.6 billion for 360 days is enormous. It has an impact on the transactions and daily running of the organisation, and therefore, KEMSA is required to up its game on the collection of funds.

Further, Communications Authority of Kenya has challenges, and up to now, as we speak, they still have challenges in recovering from Telkom Kenya Limited a whopping Ksh5,695,935,298 or US$ 40,079,861. There was explanation, and despite all the several attempts by the Authority to pursue the debt with Telkom Kenya Limited through demand letters, emails, and holding meetings with Telkom Kenya Limited, the amount remains outstanding. This recovery is turning into a mirage, and it is upon this House to take a very strong step forward and help CA to recover this money.

What we have just been talking about in terms of security, and even what we talked about before regarding the Bill which has just been discussed now, Telkom Kenya Limited hides behind the issue that this is a security matter, claiming that it is offering a security service to CA while it is accruing Ksh5.6 billion worth of liability to pay to CA. Therefore, we made a recommendation that the accounting officer should ensure that all proper and robust debt collection mechanisms, effective debt management policies, and proper systems for the recording of the debt are put in place. There was a communication from Telkom Kenya alluding to miscalculation of figures, but it was not good enough to warrant that. These were delaying tactics towards paying the amount owed to CA. Also, we did not see that the matter had been escalated to court or arbitration. That in itself, is an indication that the mechanisms of debt collection have not been explored to the letter.

We also said that within three months upon adoption of this Report, the entities with outstanding receivables should initiate recovery mechanisms within the statutory provisions and identify any such debts that would be deemed irrecoverable.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, you do recognise that the Government of the day has explained that there should be no court cases, but that does not stop the issue of arbitration. Arbitration should be pursued so that discussions on how debts will be paid are made clear before the auditors. The other issue that cuts across is the issue of long outstanding payables. What is outstanding to the various entities to pay? For example, the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act (Cap 412A) provides that any pending bills form the first charge in the subsequent financial year of the budget. Some of the said corporations had challenges in paying outstanding debts. This was occasioned by poor budgetary controls and lack of proper documentation to support the payables. You can only pay when documentation is clear, but when documentation is in doubt, it becomes tricky. You realise that the current budget is being uploaded or has been uploaded in the last few weeks. You find that most of the Government entities are paying pending bills, but if documentation is not proper, it ends up not being paid.

We observed that the National Youth Service had an outstanding payable amount of Ksh500 million which had remained outstanding for over three years, with no evidence provided on measures taken by management to settle this obligation. KEMSA had trade payables amounting to Ksh3,989,600,611 which were outstanding for a long period for the time contrary to Regulation 42(1)(a) of the PFM National Government Regulations, 2015 that states:

“Public debt service payments shall be a first charge on the Consolidated Fund, and the Accounting Officer must ensure this is prioritised to the extent possible so that the Government does not default on its debt obligations.” Having considered that, we said that within three months upon adoption of this Report, all the entities with outstanding payables should prepare a report detailing how the payables arose, reasons for non-payment and the measures taken to repay, and report to Parliament.

The fifth issue that cuts across the seven agencies was non-compliance with the one- third basic salary rule. It is important to note that provision of Section 19(3) of the Employment Act, 2007 states: “Total wage deductions cannot exceed two-thirds of an employee's wages at any one time.” We noted that the National Youth Service had 156 employees who received a net salary of less than a third of their basic pay in June 2023. This contravenes Section 19(3) of the Employment Act. 22 Child Welfare Society of Kenya employees earned a net salary which was less than a third of their basic salary. This also contravenes that regulation. Therefore, we made a recommendation that within three months upon adoption of this Report, the accounting officers of the two agencies should submit to the National Assembly documented measures undertaken to strengthen payroll controls through automated payroll validation checks designed to flag salary processing that violates the one-third rule prior to disbursement.

Allow me to look at the various individual cases on the seven agencies. Most of the issues are in the Report but I want to sample a few peculiar issues that the Committee came up with. I want to begin with the National Youth Service, especially regarding the Financial Year 2022/2023.We noted underutilisation of land as a peculiar issue that came up in the report. The Committee observed that the NYS has 96,124.62 hectares of service land, out of which only 2,456.5 hectares, which is just three percent of that land, is under productive use. That means that approximately 97 percent of the land remains idle, despite the NYS having the necessary manpower. This raises serious concerns about whether value for money is being realised, as there is no effective utilisation of the land. In our submission to you, we recommended that within three months upon adoption of this Report, the Accounting Officer should submit to the National Assembly a comprehensive plan demonstrating how the Service will effectively utilise its land to generate additional income and improve liquidity.

In the Financial Year 2023/2024, in the same agency, there was an issue on sustainability of service. The Committee observed that the agency recorded a deficit of Ksh211,675,213 during that year. That eroded the retained earnings resulting in a negative working capital of Ksh550,179,508 without the inclusion of historical pending bills amounting to Ksh16,390,237,695. This financial position indicates that the Service is technically insolvent and its continued ability to discharge its core mandate is heavily reliant on creditors and Government grants. These are the figures from the Auditor-General. Therefore, it is important to note that, where need be, this is a very important Government agency, and all Kenyans look upon NYS. My people from Navakholo are observant and would want to see NYS grow.

This is an issue that even the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning should consider sitting down with the Director-General and discuss how to clean up the balance sheet of NYS. Let this fund get its status improved but not in this kind of situation. Therefore, we made a very conclusive recommendation that within three months upon adoption of this Report, the Accounting Officer should develop a comprehensive turnaround strategy to improve its financing and budgeting process that will ensure the Service operates efficiently. As you can see from the figures, even after subtracting the pending bills which have already been incurred, the Service is already in the red at Ksh550 million. It requires total support, and the Director-General, who is a very strong officer whom I observed, needs a lot of support.

The National Syndromic Disease Control Council, especially in the 2024/2025 Financial Year had one peculiar issue of unutilised deferred revenue. My Committee observed that the Council received Ksh100 million on 4th December 2017 for the purpose of acquiring and developing the Maisha Plaza Project. However, the construction of the Plaza had not commenced seven years after receipt of the funds due to the challenge of acquiring land, implying a lack of feasibility study. The management did not demonstrate how the Council received the funds before acquiring the land.

We did make a recommendation as follows: that the accounting officer ensures at all

times that a robust feasibility study is undertaken before a capital renewal project is budgeted for. This was after the Chief Executive Officer tabled the roadmap to acquisition. The initial plan for this agency was to get land from a sister agency, Kenyatta National Hospital, whose work did not go well, and now they are in procurement mode to get a proper site to build the head office.

On the issue of Child Welfare Society of Kenya for Financial Year 2024/2025, there was an issue on deposits held in collapsed banks. The Committee observed that the recoverability of the Society’s deposit amounting to Ksh14,374,766, held in Imperial Bank, which went under receivership in 2015, remained highly doubtful. The management had lodged claims with the Kenya Deposit Insurance Corporation (KDIC). However, the progress made to recover the deposit since 2015 had been minimal. Consequently, this exposed the Society to the risk of losing public funds.

We now make the following recommendation. The Committee recommends that within three months of the adoption of this report, the accounting officer should liaise with the Chief Executive Officer of KDIC in order to fast-track the recovery of the Ksh14.3 million held in Imperial Bank, which collapsed. This was because there was no evidence of communication other than explanations that were there at one point, an engagement between them to get the funds back. In the case of the Public Benefit Organisations Regulatory Authority (PBORA), there was one issue in the Financial Year 2024/2025 regarding non-compliance with affirmative action on persons living with disabilities. It is by law that members of society living with disabilities should be considered in our formal employment. The Authority does not have any staff members with special needs, which is contrary to Section 21(2)(a) of Kenya’s Persons with Disabilities Act, 2025, which requires that at least five per cent of staff, be persons with disabilities.

This is the law, and we need the PBORA to enforce it. We recommend that the accounting officer ensures compliance with the provisions of this law and the relevant applicable laws and regulations herein. Our persons with disabilities must have a place and must be supported by all of us, especially in this House. Regarding the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA), I would like to cite an issue for the Financial Year 2024/2025 concerning long-outstanding receivables. The issue of Telkom Kenya having an outstanding balance of Ksh5.6 billion with respect to spectrum fees is significant. We must all support CA in recovering this money. The National Treasury wrote a letter to CA, Reference No. TNT/ZZ/331/02, dated 28th June 2020, on behalf of Telkom Kenya Limited, regarding frequency spectrum fees, suggesting that they continue utilising the frequency spectrum. However, to date, between the time of the audit and my time of reporting, that money has not been settled. We recommend the following.

That within three months of the adoption of this Report, the Accounting Officer at CA, the Principal Secretary at the National Treasury, the Principal Secretary for the State Department for Broadcasting and Telecommunications, and the Attorney-General should form an ad hoc committee comprising representatives from the four entities. This committee should aim to develop legally binding and documented modalities for settling the outstanding amount and addressing future obligations that may arise from their engagements. The legally binding

memorandum signed by the parties should be presented to the National Assembly and the Auditor-General for review.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, we pushed CA to provide us with any binding memorandum reflecting their relationship with Telkom Kenya, but none was forthcoming. We felt it is now important to involve the mother ministries and state departments to formalise engagement aimed at recovering this money.

Having considered the several issues raised in the six agencies, the last being the

Agriculture Finance Corporation (AFC), I wish to report as follows: Agriculture Finance

Corporation has an issue concerning land and buildings that we must examine and support. The balance reported on land and buildings excludes from the financial statements land located in Busia, Nanyuki, and Kerugoya, whose ownership has been disputed, thereby exposing public assets to the risk of loss through repossession by the respective county governments, legal disputes, and the misstatement of assets in the financial statements.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, AFC mainly engages in providing funds for agricultural purposes, including the purchase of land. If AFC can prepare a financial statement and still fail to capture the figures for the land in Busia, Nanyuki, and Kerugoya, this raises concerns. We are on the verge of legislating the financial position of AFC as a whole. The repossession of land in Nanyuki and Kerugoya indicates weak monitoring of development conditions, exposing the corporation to avoidable loss of public assets.

The third issue is the delayed titling of land affecting valuation and financial reporting. There are various parcels of land belonging to the Agricultural Finance Corporation (AFC) that were presented to us without valuation and were also not reflected in the financial statements. Failure to secure ownership documents in a timely manner prevented the inclusion of the assets in the revaluation exercise, potentially understating the value of the assets and weakening the reliability of the financial statements.

When we look at the financial statements of the AFC, and there is no valuation of its assets, particularly the land, it presents the land with a value dating back approximately 10 to 14 years. That means that the financial statement is not correct.

Further, the risk arising from continued non-compliance, with 16 parcels of land still untitled, the Corporation remains exposed to future disputes, repossession and audit queries if corrective action is not taken. This is a serious issue. Imagine having 16 parcels of land without proper valuation; that position becomes very dangerous for the Government to have such an investment in our agency.

Therefore, we recommend as follows: That within six months of the adoption of this

Report, the National Assembly Departmental Committee on Lands should conduct a comprehensive inquiry into the ownership of all parcels of land owned by the Agency. The objective of this inquiry is to ensure that all public land is properly vested in the Government entity. This is also in light of the earlier conditions of inquiry into the land issue.

Why should this responsibility be assigned to the Departmental Committee? It is because the law provides that Ministries, Departments and Agencies should report to the National Assembly on a quarterly basis. Therefore, if the Departmental Committee supervising this Agency can undertake this exercise, rather than leaving it entirely to the Audit Committee, we will gradually ensure that all the assets of the Agency are properly captured in its books, as required.

With that, allow me to conclude by saying that I thank you and your Office, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would also like to thank my colleagues, the Members of my Committee, including my Vice-Chairperson, Hon. Caleb Amisi, and the very able Bishop Jackson Kosgei, who is with us here today, for the tireless time that he devoted to this work. He is a very great Member, a serious Kenyan and a very good Member of the other side of the House.

I also wish to thank the Hon. Joshua Kimilu, and my great friend and Member for Nandi Hills, for sitting for long hours to draft and evaluate this Report. I also wish to thank the Clerk of the National Assembly, through the Directorate of Committees. My Committee Clerk made a significant input in terms of manpower and excellence. I wish to register my appreciation, as the Chairperson, for the good work.

I also wish to thank each and every person who supported this course until we were able to come up with this Report, including the agencies, for making themselves available whenever we invited them. They provided us with the information, and all that information has been incorporated into this Report. It is a well-discussed Report between the Committee, the Agencies and their Chief Executive Officers (CEOs).

I submit this Report to the House. I request Members to support me in passing this Report. I further request Hon. Jackson Kosgei to second.

committees. Hon. Wangwe, would be coming in on time. We would sometimes start sitting at

1. 8.00 a.m. all the way to almost 6.00 p.m. continuously, analysing these reports and the discussions. Equally, allow me to really thank the officers of Parliament. Those are the clerks and the secretariat of that Committee. They would really burn the midnight oil to be able to work with the speed with which we were carrying them through. In fact, I would challenge the leadership of Parliament, that if today a record of performance is placed, I am very sure the

in the top two in terms of work delivery.

The Report that has been presented today is about the audit of the NYS for the Financial Years 2019/2020 to 2024/2025; the National Syndemic Disease Control for Financial Year 2024/2025; Child Welfare Society for 2024/2025, Public Benefit Organisations Regulatory Authority for the Financial Year 2024/2025; Communications Authority of Kenya for Financial Year 2024/2025; KEMSA for Financial Year 2022/2023; and of course AFC for Financial Years 2012/2013 to 2018/2019. There are issues that we found cross-cutting in all of them. I love the way the secretariat and we, under the leadership of our able Chair, were able to cluster the issues that came up. The guiding principles were the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act of 2012, the Public Audit Act 2015, State Corporations Act 1986, Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act, National Assembly Standing Orders, and the National Assembly Powers and Privileges. These were the nets that we used to craft this Report that we brought here today.

The cross-cutting issues were as follows. One, we noted that a couple of the land and buildings in these institutions do not have title deeds. This is a very serious issue because in the past and even in the present, we have witnessed the land corruption that involves taking of Government properties by individuals. There is no active action towards recovery of those properties. That was our key concern. We noted that the Communication Authority of Kenya, NYS, KEMSA and AFC had several parcels of land spread across the country that did not have documentation.

I will touch on the NYS. It will interest the House to note that they have comparatively about 2,000 hectares that are not fenced and have been encroached upon. Only 2,400 acres of the National Youth Service are being utilized out of the over 96,000 acres of land. The entire over 93,000 is fallow, and yet, NYS has young people whom they can engage to participate in various activities whether they want to lease those lands, grow food, or carry out other productive activities. They have these huge tracts of land but they have not protected or secured them. It is, therefore, open that these parcels of land can easily be stolen from them.

At the same time, the utilisation of such huge tracts of land should be a concern of this House. In fact, based on some of the recommendations that have been provided here, I would be keen to see if the Committee on Implementation will be able to follow up. I also like the proposal that Hon. Wangwe gave. That at some point, he would want the Departmental Committees to also participate in this audit. This is because at the Departmental Committee level, you can demand to know how they are utilising this huge truck of land that they have. Generally, we noted that most of these organisations have not been able to title all their land.

Something that will also interest this House is the issue of KEMSA. They have a title deed worth Ksh220 million that has been cancelled by National Land Commission (NLC). They are now in court spending a lot of public money in a dispute between the NLC and KEMSA. At some point, there was a government position that government institutions should not take each other to court; they need to resolve such issues amongst themselves. They are now in court spending a lot of public money between NLC and KEMSA. At some point, there was a government position that government institutions should not take each other to court. They need to resolve such issues amongst themselves. I call upon this House to affirm itself

that such high value properties should not have a tussle in between where one is cancelling the title deed while the other it still claiming ownership of the property. That is a concern that I was able to pick on the aspect of land ownership.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the other serious issue that happens is where the Auditor- General goes to audit an institution, but is not provided with all the documentation required. Of course, this is contrary to the provisions of Article 226 of the Constitution and Section 68(2) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. There are institutions that we found to have not provided the necessary documentation so that the Auditor-General could do proper audit of the institutions. These institutions include KEMSA and the NYS. I want these recommendations that have been tabled here to be taken extremely serious by the accounting officers. Let it also be known by all other government agencies that they need to provide documentation for audit because public money has been used in the projects.

We need to have zero fault. If you know the parameter, why are you not able to provide these documents? Are you trying to hide something? Up to this moment, they have not been able to provide the documents when it is clearly stated that within three months, at the end of the financial year, you are supposed to provide these documents for audit. Therefore, this House must take this Report seriously so that there is a serious follow-up on the recommendations that have been tabled by this Committee.

I would also like to pick on the issue of non-compliance with one-third of the basic salary rule. There were two institutions: the NYS, which had 156 of its staff being paid less than a third of what they earn, which is contrary to Section 19(3) of the Employment Act, 2007, and the Child Welfare Society (CWS). Government institutions must know that they should not pay their staff less than a third of their basic salary because the staff will be suffering with a little salary to take home. Therefore, this is a serious issue. They know the requirement, but they still go against it.

As I rush to conclude, I also note that the National Syndemic Disease Control Council (NSDCC) had a proposal where they were given…

(The microphone went off) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I ask you to add me three more minutes to finish important points that I want to make.

to be done so that we do not keep having huge debts believing that they will be recoverable, yet there is no future in the same.

With those few remarks, allow me to salute Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe and the team that participated in doing this fantastic Report. I encourage the House to adopt it and the Implementation Committee to follow up on every recommendation that has been made to the letter.

our children. The Ministry should not underfund an organisation that does such good work for our country. That is why we also recommended that the Ministry takes immediate action to ensure that this organisation is well funded. Child welfare should not be taken lightly.

I had a case in my constituency - Kaiti, where a 12-year-old child was raped. The CWSK faced challenges in handling the issue because of limited funds. When I followed up, I discovered the organisation was struggling. This Parliament approves huge budgets for ministries. You cannot tell one hand not to support the other because both hands are parts of the same body. Likewise, we need to ensure that ministries take care of the SAGAs which fall under their mandate.

I do not want to take much time because I also want my colleagues to contribute to the Report. I request this House to adopt this Report so that action can be taken and implementation can take place.

1. (1) (a) of the PFM Act. We need to do something in the future. Otherwise, we are going to lose too much; we will be crying that no infrastructure is being done well, and that we do not have money to pay workers, yet a few people will be enjoying it. I am even surprised that Telkom owes the Communications Authority of Kenya over Ksh5.6 billion in spectrum fees, yet Telkom goes scot-free and fails to pay. How would they expect a parastatal like CA to continue? We have also raised more serious issues, and that is why I applaud the Committee.

Although the National Treasury has committed to pay the money, it has not. These are not small amounts. We are not talking about a few thousand shillings or millions, but billions.

The PBORA and all the other authorities mentioned require attention. It is time to strengthen safeguards against encroachment on public land. We have heard that much public

land lacks title deeds, leading to encroachment. How can we become a developed country if basic matters such as the issuance and accountability of title deeds remain unresolved?

I, therefore, support the Committee’s recommendations for their full implementation. This will also help other entities avoid wastefulness. Kudos to the Committee.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

1. (2) The Committee shall scrutinise the resolutions of the House (including adopted Committee reports), petitions and undertakings given by the National Executive and examine –
2. (a) whether or not such decisions and undertakings have been implemented, where implemented, the extent to which they have been implemented; and whether such implementation has taken place within the minimum time necessary.” Having seen this Report, I note that the Committee has proposed enacting certain legislation in some sections. Standing Order 209(1)(b) reads: ‘‘(b) whether or not legislation passed by the House has been operationalised and where operationalised, the extent to which such operationalisation has taken place within the minimum time necessary.’’ Most importantly, Standing Order 209(3) provides that:
3. (3) The Committee may propose to the House sanctions against any Cabinet Secretary who fails to report to the relevant select committee on implementation status without justifiable reasons.

My understanding of the importance of House resolutions in our Standing Orders stems from Article 125 of the Constitution, which gives the Committee on Implementation powers similar to those of the High Court. Therefore, if you interpret it progressively, a House resolution is equivalent to a court order, which is why the Standing Order has been framed in line with Article 125 of the Constitution. This House must never pass a resolution in vain. We must ensure that the highest office in a ministry, held by the Cabinet Secretary, is accountable. In fact, the Cabinet Secretary is in charge, not junior officers or accounting officers of the ministries. As we adopt these House resolutions, I must commend the Committee. They have done an excellent job in compliance with the Constitution of this Republic and the Standing Orders. We must ensure that House resolutions, which are equivalent to court orders, are implemented to the letter.

That said, I want to state that the NYS plays a very important role in this country. Of the 96,124.62 acres of land held by NYS, only 3 per cent is currently utilised. We must think beyond fencing. We must use that land productively so that we can lease it out. We have very progressive Kenyans in this country. My friend, Hon. Kanchory, the Member for Kajiado Central, is a progressive mind in agriculture. For instance, we could lease 10,000 or 20,000 acres to him for agricultural production. This would help us find ways to utilise idle parcels of land within our country.

I have also noted that the Committee is reviewing the AFC's audited report for the 2012/2013 Financial Year. Why are we discussing an audited Report that is 14 years old? We must find a way to fast-track these reports so that they are considered within a timeframe, while remaining relevant to the accounts of the State corporations audited. In essence, as I conclude, we must implement House resolutions. This House cannot pass or adopt Committee resolutions or reports in vain. We must ensure the Committee follows up so that we find a mechanism to act on them.

Thank you. I rest.

of numbers when it comes to what is happening. Allow me to thank my colleagues in their entirety, without mincing words.

Allow me to thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving us ample time to prosecute the seven agencies. As Hon. Toroitich said, some agencies' audit reports date back to 2012. I must thank the Constitution of Kenya that, finally, the Supreme Court has given us a ruling on timelines, which we now have to enforce under Article 229(8). This must be complied with, which is why you can see most of the agencies have pulled them all through. Now we are in the Financial Year 2024/2025, a case which was not there. Allow me to thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Secretariat, and everyone for making it possible for our 10th Report to be read and passed.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply.

ADOPTION OF 4TH REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT DIVERSITY AUDIT IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

THAT, this House adopts the Fourth Report of the Select Committee on National Cohesion and Equal Opportunity on the Employment Diversity Audit in Public Institutions.

ADOPTION OF REPORT ON PUBLIC PETITION ON REDUCTION, DISTRIBUTION AND CONSUMPTION OF ILLEGAL ALCOHOLIC BREWS

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1. 1. Investigate the status of implementation of regulations in place to curb the production, distribution and consumption of illegal alcohol.

1. 2. Determine the cause of the rampant production, distribution and consumption of illegal alcohol in the country.
2. 3. Recommend a multi-agency approach to curb the production, distribution and consumption of illegal alcohol and make any other recommendations it may deem appropriate to address the plight of the petitioners.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Committee undertook a comprehensive examination of the Petition. We received both oral and written submissions from various stakeholders. The submissions received formed the basis of the Committee’s observations and recommendations, as outlined in the Report.

The Committee made several key observations. The alcohol industry is a significant contributor to the economy, accounting for about 4.1 per cent of Kenya's nominal GDP in 2024, valued at approximately Ksh660.01 billion and a major contributor to tax revenue through excise and import duties, with alcoholic beverages generating approximately Ksh48.61 billion in excise revenue in 2024, beer contributing Ksh29.07 billion and wines and spirits Ksh19.53 billion.

In 2025, the total size of illicit trade in Kenya was estimated at Ksh826 billion, having risen from Ksh726 billion in 2017. Illicit alcohol comprised about 59 per cent by volume and 21 per cent by value, equivalent to Ksh67 billion of Kenya's total alcohol market in 2022.

The fiscal loss attributable to the illegal alcohol economy was estimated at approximately Ksh71 billion in 2022, with the greatest leakage emanating from distilled spirits. Worth noting is that it is not only the fiscal loss that we are having but also a generation loss through consumption of illicit alcohol. We have a generation lost through lack of procreation because of loss of procreative prowess. Somebody said that, apart from losing those who consume illicit alcohol through death, some of them lose procreative prowess, and they end up sleeping under their beds instead of sleeping on top of them.

On average, 18 per cent of products in surveyed sectors are counterfeited, with alcoholic beverages experiencing a prevalence of 19 per cent, which is second only to automotive spare parts, which is 21 per cent. Within the alcoholic drink segment, gin and vodka emerged as the most affected products at the firm level. In contrast, at the consumer level, wine, beer, whisky, and vodka were the most counterfeited categories, at 50.12 per cent for beer, 44.44 per cent for whisky, and 36.95 per cent for vodka.

Illicit alcohol is rampant due to tax evasion and illegal ethanol smuggling through porous borders with multiple recognised illicit entry points, including Isibania, Shimoni, Busia, Mbale, Malaba, Lwakhakha, Namanga, Lunga Lunga, and Moyale, and also across counties where those who brew local brews do the koroga’s using inter-county illicit smuggling.

Retail licensing was fragmented across the 47 county governments, with uneven enforcement of the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act, 2010, and respective county Acts, creating arbitrage opportunities for illicit traders, compounded by overlapping mandates among regulatory and enforcement agencies. The primary driver of the current crisis in Uasin Gishu County is smuggling and diversion of ethanol intended for industrial manufacturing use. However, statistics show that the matter cuts across and is a national pandemic.

In light of the observations made, the Committee recommends implementing the following within 90 days of adoption of this Report.

The Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury and Economic Planning, in liaison with the KRA, fully operationalise the Excise Duty Remission (Remission of Excise Duty Regulations, 2026). That will generate revenue for this country. You realise the revenue lost, at Ksh71 billion, could fund about 10 counties.

The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and National Administration, in liaison with the Council of Governors (CoG), should submit to the National Assembly proposals to harmonise the national and county alcoholic drinks control regime on licensing.

The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and National Administration submits to the National Assembly draft amendments to the Alcoholic Drinks Control Act, prescribing higher penalties for breaches of the law commensurate with economic crimes. It is unfortunate that even with the loss of very many young people in this country through illicit consumption, when these people are taken to court, very many of them are released on a mere Ksh2,000 fine or a penalty of only Ksh2,000. So, we need to give penalties that are commensurate with the people who are destroying this country and causing this country to lose revenue.

The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Investments, Trade and Industry, in liaison with the Anti-Counterfeit Authority (ACA), submits to the National Assembly draft amendments to the Anti-Counterfeit Act, prescribing higher penalties for breaches of the law commensurate with the economic crimes, criminal liability of beneficial owners of offending companies, and addressing enforcement gaps.

The Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development, in liaison with the Kenya Sugar Board, submits to the National Assembly draft amendments requiring reporting by sugar millers of all molasses-based ethanol production and mandatory disclosure of buyers and users, as well as the movement of ethanol consignments, to KRA, KEBS and the SEA, and prescribes minimum quantity thresholds for sale.

The Committee further recommended that within 90 days of adoption of this Report, the Inspector-General, National Police Service and the Commissioner-General, KRA, report to the National Assembly on action taken to increase surveillance at identified and other ethanol- smuggling border points, including Isebania, Shimoni, Busia, Mbale, Malaba, Lwakhakha, Namanga, Lunga Lunga and Moyale, and on the crackdown within Kenya.

The Managing Director, KEBS, submits to the National Assembly a strategy paper on reformed enforcement, quality assurance and inspection, and market surveillance measures.

The Committee also recommended that, within 90 days of adopting this Report, the Cabinet Secretary for the Ministry of Interior and National Administration submit to the National Assembly draft legislation to anchor the multi-agency task force in law.

This task force should comprise the ministries, National Government Administrative Officers (NGAOs), NPS, NIS, KRA, KEBS, NACADA, ACA, COG, Ministry of Health, ODPP, EACC and any other relevant Government agency.

The Committee further recommends that the House debate this Report as per Standing Order 208(2)(c). This report remains open for further debate because it is a menace and a concern across the country that must be debated and addressed. I wish to express the Committee’s gratitude to the petitioner and all stakeholders for their invaluable input through their submissions, which enabled the Committee to compile this crucial Report.

I also extend my sincere appreciation to your Office and the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly. Furthermore, I thank the Members of the Public Petitions Committee for their participation in the deliberations and their commitment to the Committee's work, as well as the Committee Secretariat for their professional support in preparing this Report.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I now call upon Hon. Paul Biego to second the Motion as I urge the House to adopt the Report.

I thank you.

(Hon. Janet Sitienei consulted with the Hon. Temporary Speaker)

Like any other Report laid before the House, we really want action to be taken. As the Chair has rightly put it, this topic needs maximum attention. With those remarks, I beg to second.

I thank you for the opportunity.

ADOPTION OF REPORT ON INSPECTION VISIT TO KENYAN EMBASSIES IN FRANCE AND THE UNITED KINGDOM FROM 7TH TO 15TH APRIL 2026

On the strategic importance of the missions, the missions in Paris and London are important platforms for advancing Kenya's bilateral, multilateral and economic diplomacy. The Paris mission is accredited to Portugal, Serbia, Monaco and the Holy See, while also covering the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) and other international organisations based in France. The London mission is accredited to the United Kingdom and has multilateral responsibilities involving the Commonwealth Secretariat, the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) and other international organisations.

The Committee observed that both missions have achieved significant milestones, including strengthening defence cooperation, supporting Kenya's international candidatures, facilitating high-level engagements, and promoting trade, tourism and investment.

Key findings in France. France and Kenya have maintained diplomatic relations since 1963, and the report identifies France as Kenya's fifth-largest investor. The mission has also supported Kenya's international engagements and facilitated business, tourism and multilateral activities. The mission has improved consular service delivery through an online appointment system, direct payment arrangements, and mobile consular services. It has also undertaken mobile services in Portugal and Serbia and maintains an emergency line for Kenyans in distress. The Committee, however, found that the Chancery and official residence require substantial renovation. The report estimates the renovation requirements at approximately Ksh145 million for the Chancery and Ksh88 million for the official residence.

The Chancery inspection identified structural cracks, blocked drainage, basement dampness, and general deterioration due to inadequate maintenance funding. The Committee further observed that the balance of trade remains in France's favour, with Kenya exporting US$113 million and importing US$235 million. This underscores the need for sustained economic diplomacy and targeted promotion of Kenyan products and services.

Key findings in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom remains an important partner for Kenya in trade, investment, defence and security, tourism and development cooperation. The London Mission also serves a substantial and well-organised Kenyan diaspora and has multilateral responsibilities through the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Maritime Organisation.

The Committee found that acquiring the London Chancery represents a significant government investment, with benefits including asset appreciation and reduced operational risks. However, the Mission continues to face delayed and inadequate exchequer funding, foreign exchange losses, high maintenance costs and challenges arising from differences between Kenyan procurement requirements and the United Kingdom operating environment.

The Committee also noted that coordination with Ministries, Departments and Agencies in Nairobi affects the timely delivery of some consular services, including processing of national identity cards, police clearance certificates, birth certificates and other centrally processed documents. The Mission also faces shortages of promotional materials and protocol gifts required for trade, tourism and public diplomacy engagements.

Of particular importance to the Committee is the status of the 2021 Defence Cooperation Agreement between Kenya and the United Kingdom. The Report notes that the agreement remains unratified because of unresolved issues, raising legal concerns about the framework governing BATUK training activities.

Following the inspection, the Committee made six principal recommendations:

1. 1. The State Department for Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the National Treasury, should ensure timely release of exchequer funds to Missions abroad.
2. 2. The State Department for Foreign Affairs and the National Treasury should provide adequate funding in the financial year 2026/27 budget for renovation works at the Paris and London Missions.

1. 3. Within six months of adoption of the Report, the National Treasury and the State Department for Foreign Affairs should amend the budgeting framework to cushion Missions against foreign exchange losses.
2. 4. Within six months, the State Department for Foreign Affairs and the National Treasury should initiate measures to harmonise Public Finance Management and Procurement Laws with the legal frameworks of host countries, to facilitate compliant and efficient financial and procurement operations.
3. 5. Through Parliamentary Diplomacy, the Committee should engage its counterpart in the United Kingdom to resolve outstanding issues and facilitate ratification of the 2021 Defence Cooperation Agreement.
4. 6. The Ministry of Foreign and Diaspora Affairs should spearhead implementation of the recommendations and apprise the National Assembly of the implementation status within 90 days of adoption of the Report.