Thursday, 18th June 2026

Sergeant-at-Arms, ring the Quorum

Leader of the Majority Party represented by Hon. Chepkonga.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. On behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Very well. Next Order.

We have a few requests as indicated in the Order Paper. We will begin with the Member for Suba South, Hon. Caroli.

Hon. Caroli, I have given you the chance, but you are on your phone.

That is out of order.

You are totally out of order.

My apologies, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was on a call with one of my constituents with ventricular heart problem. He was just updating me on his progress.

Member for Suba South, you know we have many rooms for that here.

My apologies. It was an emergency. I do not want him to die before he votes for my re-election.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock regarding the importation of refined sugar into the country and its impact on the local sugar industry.

Reports indicate that in January 2026, a consignment of approximately 27,839 metric tonnes of sugar were imported into the country from South Africa for supply to the local market. Further, it is alleged that the imported sugar benefited from tax exemptions. Section 25 of the Sugar Act, 2024 requires any person importing sugar to obtain a valid import licence and pre-import approval from the Kenya Sugar Board. The Act further requires an importer to demonstrate that the sugar intended for importation is not available in the local market.

In addition, Section 26 of the Act provides that sugar imports shall be subject to applicable regional and international trade agreements and that sugar should only be imported where there exists a domestic sugar deficit and for a specific tonnage. There is concern as to whether the importation in question complied with the requirements of the Sugar Act, including the statutory licensing and approval procedures, particularly in light of reports that the Kenya Sugar Board was not fully constituted at the material time. There is also concern regarding the impact of the imports on local sugar producers and farmers, who continue to face challenges relating to market access and competitiveness.

It is against this background that I request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock on the following—

Very well. This goes to the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock. Chairperson. Give, Hon. Justice the microphone.

Hon. Justice Kemei (Sigowet/Soin, UDA) : Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to respond. The Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock, including the Chair, are on duty in Mombasa and I am holding brief on behalf of the Committee. That is a fairly weighty matter and we need to consult both the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and the Kenya Sugar Board on the circumstances sought by Hon. Caroli Omondi. We wish to request for two weeks so that we can do our work properly and give a response that satisfies the question asked by Hon. Caroli Omondi.

Hon. Caroli, two weeks is pretty reasonable.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I just want us to be alive to the parliamentary calendar so that the question does not go beyond this session.

We are still in session all the way to December.

We are going for a break, are we not?

Yes, we have a recess but two weeks is reasonable. I have listened to your request for Statement and it is not a straight…

Provided we get an answer before we go for recess.

Take two weeks,

I am much obliged, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

The next request for Statement is by the Member for Tiaty, Hon. Kamket.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (c) , I wish to request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning regarding the operationalisation and implementation of the Equalisation Fund.

Article 204 of the Constitution establishes the Equalisation Fund for the purpose of providing basic services, including water, roads, health facilities and electricity to marginalised areas to bring the quality of those services to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation. However, the operationalisation and implementation of the Fund has been characterised by delays in approval and disbursement of funds, and delayed commencement of projects in marginalised areas.

Notably, in many instances, funds appropriated for identified projects remain unutilised for prolonged periods despite the projects having already undergone the requisite identification and approval processes. This points to structural inefficiencies within the current implementation framework or administrative ineptitude on the part of the county governments as the procuring entities. Consequently, substantial public resources continue to lie idle, thereby frustrating the timely realisation of the objectives of the Fund.

Additionally, the implementation framework under the Public Finance Management Act, Cap. 412A, and the Public Finance Management

Regulations, 2021 involves institutional overlap by various agencies, including the National

Treasury, the Commission on Revenue Allocation, Parliament, county governments and the Equalisation Fund Advisory Board. This has resulted in bureaucratic bottlenecks, delayed project approvals and slow execution of development initiatives. Consequently, many marginalised communities continue to experience inadequate access to essential public services despite the existence of this Fund.

It is against this background that I request for a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning on the following:

Hon. Justice, are you a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning?

Hon. Justice Kemei (Sigowet/Soin, UDA) : No.

Do you want to ride on it?

Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Okay. I will indulge you.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Equalisation Fund, as passed by this House, was meant to benefit the marginalised areas of this country which have remained behind for a long time, in terms of development. The implementation of the Equalisation Fund by county governments has left out a critical player in the exercise, namely; the representatives of the people. The county governments have implemented the projects without involving representatives of the people at the constituency level. As much as the request for Statement by Hon. Kamket centres on Baringo, I would wish that using your authority, you extend the expected response to cover the implementation of the Equalisation Fund in all parts of the country, where the Fund is meant to serve.

You have made your point. Hon. Ngikolong, proceed.

Nicholas Ng’ikor

: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The request for Statement by Hon. Kamket, and the way Hon. Justice has put it, reminds us of the reason as to why the Equalisation Fund was included in the Constitution of Kenya, 2010 and why Kenyans fought for the decision to be adopted. In areas where the Equalisation Fund was meant to serve, people voted for the Equalisation Fund because it was meant to make marginalised areas equal to other areas that had already developed.

From 2010 to date, we have not felt the Equalisation Fund in our areas. My constituency is one of the constituencies which are supposed to benefit from the Fund. However, we have not received the funds. For that reason, we request that when the Committee brings a response to this House, they bring the entire report of the Fund from 2010 to date. This will help us to see how far it has helped the people of this country.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Raso.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Statement by Hon. Kamket.

Article 204 of our Constitution is very clear on the purposes of the Equalisation Fund. It addresses electricity, water, education and health issues. The idea is to bring those marginalised and underprivileged areas, which have been excluded for a long time from mainstream development in this country, closer to those areas that are already developed. The Equalisation Fund is no longer what is prescribed in the Constitution. It is something else because nowadays, other areas within cities like Mathare, Kariobangi and Kariokor receive funds from the Equalisation Fund, yet the Fund was meant to address underdevelopment in 15 Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASAL) counties.

We are the budget makers and lawmakers. We have no reasons to complain. The Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Leader of the Majority Party are present in the House. We must decide how to go forward with the Equalisation Fund. It is marginalising more those areas that are already underprivileged and underserved.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Members, I know this is a thorny issue. That is why I have indulged a few of you. Please, do not make long speeches.

I will give opportunity to Hon. Lochakapong.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. The Statement sought by Hon. Kamket is timely. Equalisation Fund projects are mistaken for county government projects. In some areas, there are lots of bureaucracy. Since the counties are the procuring entities, they treat them as their projects. There are delays in implementation. The county governments claim that they own the projects as if they are the ones who fund them, which is not the case.

I wish the Cabinet Secretary came here to address this issue. If this House agrees, I propose that we amend Article 204 (3) (b) of the Constitution so that projects and programmes under the Equalisation Fund can be funded directly from the national Government rather than going through the county governments. The current arrangement is very bureaucratic, thus the delays in implementation.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker.

Member for Elgeyo Marakwet.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this Statement request. There is need for frequent reviews. For example, in Elgeyo Marakwet County, the Equalisation Fund resources are given to only one constituency, yet all the four constituencies have similar problems. The poverty index in all the four constituencies is similar. They receive only Ksh65 million, while the neighbouring counties receive up to Ksh1.6 billion. Therefore, there is need for a review. We also need to know the criteria they use. I know that they use data from the 2019 Census Report, yet things keep changing. They need to be a little bit thorough, so that they give an accurate poverty index.

Very well. Next is the Member for Ndhiwa.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We cannot talk about the same issue the same way and expect different result. I have five wards which get resources from the Equalisation Fund, but we do not see any development project. We can revert this Fund to the NG-CDF where it was before to make it effective because we hardly see any development that this Fund does.

Thank you. Member for Endebess.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the request for Statement by Hon. Kamket. In line with what the Member for Sigowet/Soin said, we would like the response to include all the areas that benefit from the Equalisation Fund. I urge my colleagues who are still stuck in the 15 counties that things changed after the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) reviewed and used the second formula. The unit of implementation is the sub-location. Endebess Constituency is one of the beneficiaries. There is a sub-location in Endebess which borders West Pokot. It has the same environment with West Pokot. It cannot be denied those services. It is Kaptega Sub-Location in Chepchoina Ward. It is a location now. The CRA needs to review its allocation criteria since Kaptega is now a location. When it was a sub-location, the allocation was Ksh20 million.

The procurement process and awarding of contracts is slow. You can relay that information to the Cabinet Secretary concerned, together with the Chief Executive Officer of the Equalisation Fund, so that they appear before the Committee that oversees the Fund. All Members who have raised issues are ready to appear before that Committee and prosecute them to ensure that the Fund works. We allocate money for the Equalisation Fund in every financial year. We want it utilised so that people get services.

Member for Chepalungu, are you holding brief for the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning?

No.

Are you a Member of the Committee?

I am not a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. Two of my sub-locations in Chepalungu Constituency, namely; Nogirwet and Cheptagum have benefitted from the Equalisation Fund. This is the first time the Fund has financed projects in that area since its inception. The residents, together with the Deputy County Commissioner (DCC) and the constituency manager, agreed on the projects that were to be implemented. Hon. Kamket has brought up the issue of delays in implementation of projects. Truly, almost one-and-half years down the line, nothing has been done despite public participation having been done. Whenever I go to the field to oversee implementation of NG-CDF projects, I am asked questions because the residents there believe that Members of Parliament are answerable whereas we all know that the procuring entity is the county government.

As Hon. Justice Kemei requested, I also request that the response covers the delays in implementation of Equalisation Fund projects in Chepalungu Constituency and in any other constituency that benefits from the Fund, so that the residents we represent know what is delaying implementation of their projects.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Very well. Member for Tharaka.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. In terms of climatic conditions, aridity, marginalisation, and everything else, Tharaka rivals Baringo. I recollect that about two years ago, when I saw this Equalisation Fund being allocated by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) , only three sub-locations in Tharaka got refunds, and the total amount was only Ksh22 million. No other sub-location benefited, so the entire county had Ksh22 million, against Baringo's Ksh600 million. If we are

equalising areas, we cannot go with the formula of CRA. It is high time we looked at the law to see whether, indeed, this money is taken to constituencies through the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) because it does a better job. Even the projects they identified two years ago have not been implemented, which means either the money was not utilised, it went back to the National Treasury, or whichever. The Equalisation Fund is meant for areas that are marginalised and have been left behind, for example, Tharaka, Kitui, Baringo, and all the others. We cannot go the way we are going. We have to re-look at the law and ensure that there, indeed, is equalisation as contemplated by the Constitution.

Thank you very much.

Hon. Members, I have indulged many of you, and I know this is a thorny issue. I still see some interest. Please, keep it very short because I want you to ride on the question by Hon. Kamket so that we get to the end of this problem. It has come here not once.

Let me hear Hon. Yegon, Hon. Shakeel, Hon Emathe and Hon. Timothy, who will be the last one.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to also ride on this matter. I think this is something which needs a broader discussion. We would also like to think of inviting the Cabinet Secretary who is concerned so that he can broadly give us details of which areas are being covered by the Equalisation Fund.

In my constituency, I have two wards, Kipreres and Longisa wards, which are totally in dire need of the Equalisation Fund. In fact, we have too many teachers who are working outside my constituency, and when they want to return, they always refer to me. They keep requesting that they be transferred to a neighbouring constituency, Narok West, where this Equalisation Fund is working. I request that we look at the whole country and identify those areas to which the Equalisation Fund should apply. This is something that needs to be addressed once and for all because it is affecting the whole country.

Thank you.

Very well. Hon. Shakeel, proceed.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me inform the House that I was on the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission since 1998, and we worked very closely and spent a lot of time discussing the Equalisation Fund. It is a special constitutional fund created under Article 204 of the Constitution to finance basic services such as water, roads, health facilities, and electricity in historically marginalised areas. The point is that the Equalisation Fund has been suppressed. Politically, the core purpose was to bring basic services to the historically marginalised areas. There is also the Marginalisation Fund that was created under the Constitution of Kenya to address the issue of the marginalised counties. If you look at the Equalisation Fund, the major issues addressed are water, health facilities, and electricity. We know that the current Government, under the Last Mile Electricity Programme, is doing well. On health facilities, we are not doing well because that falls under counties.

Hon. Shakeel, do not debate.

I am not debating. I am informing the House that we were there during the constitutional review. We created the two funds so that they could support the marginalised. I am now finding that both these funds have been suppressed and have not been activated in the manner that was proposed. Had they been activated in that manner, rather than disseminated in little amounts, we would have been in a much better situation. I plead with the House that we try, in the last year of this term, to see what we can do. I would like the Ministry of Finance and National Planning to inform the House the amount of money we have in the Equalisation Fund and the Marginalisation Fund,

and what we have done with those funds in the past five years. I will be asking a question on that.

Thank you.

Hon. Emathe.

Thank you, Hon Temporary Speaker. A kamukunji is growing up here, led by the Whip of the Majority Party.

Hon. Emathe, you have the Floor. Kindly prosecute your issue.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Article 204 of the Constitution on ensuring that historically marginalised areas are also equalised in the development agenda is critical to our discussion. Allow me to raise two issues. One is the delay in the implementation of Equalisation Fund projects. I want to thank Mheshimiwa for Tiaty for raising this matter. I am holding a report for Turkana Central on the Equalisation Fund, and when I look at it, only two projects out of 10 have been implemented since 2023. This delayed implementation will not help our country and will not help these historically marginalised areas to develop.

Again, if you look at what has been implemented, some projects have been duplicated. For example, there is a project that I am already implementing under the same fund that we received in 2018, yet another project has been targeted for the same place. I am sure the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) is ready to pick up on this duplication. A project was created, and then another project on the Equalisation Fund was created in the same place! I think the most important thing here is to see how the Equalisation Fund can be fully legalised and we get it to the right office for implementation. As it is now, it is just owned by the county government, and in some areas the county government has just gone to sleep.

You have made your point.

Thank you.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As a country, we must reflect and ask ourselves what the purpose of Article 204 of our Constitution is with respect to the Equalisation Fund. A keen reading of that provision shows that it was meant to provide basic services, including water, roads, health care services, and electricity to marginalised areas, to the extent necessary to bring the quality of the services in those areas to the level generally enjoyed by the rest of the nation.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, this Fund was meant to bring equality in this country but we lost its intent and purpose. Currently, we do not have proper implementation mechanism of this Fund. Imagine Hon. Kamket tried to bring a legislation on Equalisation Fund to this House but it never saw light. Therefore, for us to properly implement the Equalisation Fund in this country, we need a comprehensive legal framework in terms of an Equalisation Act. We need a statute because currently this Fund is being implemented through regulations. We do not have a clear framework. So, we need a clear legal framework to implement this Fund.

You have made your point. I had already directed that you will be the last one. Hon. Members we have had enough representation of the Members. This matter has become repetitive. Hon. Kamket, you are the owner of the Statement. What is out of order?

Thank you for indulging me. There is nothing out of order. Given the interest that this Statement has generated among Members, would I be in order to request that we not only deal with the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, but we also bring the Cabinet Secretary?

We are headed there, Hon. Kamket, because we have indulged very many Members and I see there is still a lot of interest in this matter. This Statement will not do justice if it is just going to speak about Baringo or to

Hon. William Kamket’s question. So, even as the Committee prosecutes, is the Chairperson or the Vice-Chairperson in the House? The leadership is here. Hon. Osoro, on this matter of equalisation, we cannot speak about the same thing over and over again for years. Call the Cabinet Secretary to appear specifically for this matter of the Equalisation Fund. It is because even if we say the Committee should call Members to its sittings, surely, they cannot even fit in a Committee room! So, call the Cabinet Secretary to appear as soon as possible to respond.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We will, indeed, do that because this is a matter that many Members have raised over the years and it is about time to get him to appear before this House. It may not be possible as soon as you have said because I think there is a lot of business to be handled next week even before we proceed for recess. Let us commit that we will make it the first agenda in the first or second week upon our resumption.

That is reasonable so that we do not get any excuse for him not to appear. The first, or, latest, second week after recess will do. Hon. Members, let us also endeavour to be in the House when that is communicated. Those questions that you are asking, that will be the right forum to get the responses and get the way forward.

Next Order. Hon. Makali Mulu, I have already said we go to the next order. Okay, proceed.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you very much for this opportunity. I have looked at the Order Paper and I see that there is Order No.9, which is the Committee of the whole House. Part of that will be on the Finance Bill but when I look at the Order Paper, I do not see any amendments. I am aware the Committee said there will be amendments and on our side we will also bring amendments. Can you guide the House on that matter?

Hon. Makali Mulu, that is a fair question. Give me some time as we move to Order No. 8. We will give you a response on the same.

Next Order.

Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2026) be now read a Second Time.

Yesterday, the House robustly debated the Supplementary Estimates II. Most Members were able to participate in that debate. It is now time for this House to give Government powers and authority to withdraw funds from Consolidated Funds for implementation of the projects and programmes that are listed in this Bill.

This Bill is basically the same as what we discussed yesterday. Just to recap for the Members who may not have been in the House yesterday, we intend to withdraw Ksh18.8 billion in the Supplementary Estimates II for purposes of fulfilling a number of programmes that are listed in the Bill. One of the programmes has to do with development of sports. We are preparing to host the African Cup of Nations and we have been preparing several

stadiums for the purpose of the forthcoming event. To us, we have allocated Ksh4.1 billion that will be used to improve various stadiums across the country. Some will be used for training for the teams that are going to participate. Others are going to be used for the live matches. For example, we have the Talanta Stadium which is one of the stadiums that will be used. We have allocated resources here to ensure that the stadium is completed in time for the games.

We have also allocated resources for water programmes, for example, the Mwache Multipurpose Dam which is in Kwale. This is a donor funded programme that will need to spend about Ksh2.3 billion. The funds are ready with the donors to be disbursed, just awaiting the passage of this Bill. There is Ksh3.847 billion that will go towards the National Youth Opportunities Towards Advancement Programme (NYOTA) that we intend to appropriate. We have Ksh1.4 billion which is going for invigilation services. During the last exams, our invigilators across the country were employed and the resources to pay them did not come so we are allocating Ksh1.5 billion that is going towards payment of invigilators. We also have security concerns and yesterday I said that we need to always take care of our security situation. Therefore, there are security needs that need to be sorted out. To address this, we have resources that we have allocated here that will be used to take care of our security in the country.

This is a very small Bill. I just want the House to help us by giving the Government authority to spend these resources. It is going to happen by the House passing the Supplementary Appropriations Bill as is in the Order Paper. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I would like to ask the Vice-Chairman, Budget and Appropriations Committee to second.

Hon. Member for Endebess.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to second the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2026) . This is to allow the Government to now withdraw funds to fund the projects as ably substantiated by my Chairman. Therefore, I second.

Very well.

Put the question

Hon. Members, I see there is a lot of interest in the Bill. Allow me to give this opportunity to the Hon. Member for Moiben Constituency. Is she in the House? Go ahead, Hon. Member for Kajiado North Constituency.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is just two weeks to the end of the financial year with a Supplementary Appropriation Bill that wants to give the Deputy President Ksh200 million and Ksh1 billion to the State House. When are they going to spend this money? At what point are they going to spend it and on what? I can see Ksh6.5 billion allocated for general expenses. Public service, where we know very well we have increased the number of employees, has been awarded only Ksh198 million.

My problem is lack of priority in this Administration. Hon. Members, it is important for us to note that at the end of the financial year our National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) has not been 100 per cent up to this point. What we should be talking about is 100 per cent for NG-CDF resources, and resources that are pro-people. It is important for Hon. Members to know that when we bring Supplementary Appropriation (No.

Member for Baringo North.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Before I deal with the Hon. Member and the issues raised, I rise to support this Motion.

Please, do not deal with Hon. Members. Deal with the Bill.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this last Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill for the Financial Year 2025/2026. The intention of this Bill is to finance programmes that may not have been captured or whose resources may not have been allocated in the main Budget and subsequent supplementary appropriations. It does not mean that other programmes that have been budgeted and procured for are not being funded. It means programmes that were not captured, for example, even in Kajiado North, where Hon. Ngogoyo comes from... Teachers who invigilated and marked examinations were not paid, but have now been resourced. Does it mean that the Hon. Member for Kajiado North does not want the teachers who invigilated and marked examinations to be paid? These are Kenyans who have already worked and need to be supported so that they can carry out the next invigilation and examinations.

Second, as a country, we have the privilege to host the African Cup of Nations. If we do not work on our stadiums, including Talanta Stadium we stand to lose. How do we restore confidence of other African countries to come to our country to participate in sports? Does it mean that Hon. Members who oppose this Supplementary Appropriation Bill do not want this country to host the African Cup of Nations? Let us differentiate between politics and propaganda and deal with issues that affect our people. Let us remain patriotic. Even if one is in the Opposition, there is need to be patriotic. When good things are done in our country, we

need to be patriots and not play politics of hate and propaganda all the time when issues are raised in our country that require the support of all of us.

With the Ksh1 billion for State House and many other resources, we have seen the development that has taken place. There are Kenyans who supplied goods and services who need to be paid.

On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Do you want to be informed by Hon. Osoro.

Yes.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to inform Hon. Makilap on the question of State House and the presidency budget in general, even as we talk about the Supplementary Appropriation (No.

Order, Hon. Osoro. Do not debate. You were to inform Hon. Makilap, and not to debate. Take your seat, Hon. Osoro. Hon. Members, I will give all of you a chance to speak. Hon. Makilap.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is no point of order on my side.

There is no one on his feet who has said anything. Finish your submission.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am winding up. Government offices, including that of the Deputy President, when there are programmes and development projects that have been done in those offices, the people who supplied goods and services require to be paid. This money is going to be put to good use. It is going to bridge the gap as far as those things that are necessary for the development of our country are concerned. Let Members not see that when there is an allocation for State House that the money will go to one President William Ruto. State House belongs even to generations to come. Even my good friend here will one day become President and he will use that house. He will have a very good place. My good friends Hon. Ochieng and Hon. Clive Gisairo can become presidents and I am sure they would like to live in a very good place. I, therefore, support this Supplementary Budget. Let us approve it and move forward with it.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Order, Hon. Members! Hon. Gisairo, what is out of order?

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Makilap has said that I want to be a future president.

Is that out of order?

It is.

For Hon. Makilap to say you will be a future president?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have not expressed that intention. My future president is, Hon. Matiang’i. So, let us be very specific.

Order, Hon. Members! Hon. Gisairo, Hon. Osoro is not on his feet. You rose on a point of order to say that Hon. Makilap should not say you will be a future president. That is not out of order.

Hon. Makilap, kindly wind up.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was saying, and this is for posterity, that if each one of us can find favour from God, we can be presidents in this country, and I mentioned him. Let us also appreciate that God will reward us in many ways. One of us in this House may become a president and he will need to use a State House that is properly done. So, let us approve this Supplementary Budget to meet the expenditure of those programmes which are very critical to the people of Kenya at this particular moment. I call upon all of us to be patriotic for their country. This country belongs to all of us regardless of where you come from.

Members for Funyula and Kajiado West, your interventions are not on this. Hon. Members, if you want to speak to this Bill, indicate in the intervention button because Hon. Members have logged in. Use the intervention because so many of you are listed and you do not intend to speak to this Bill.

Hon. Emaase.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute to the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2026) . It is a very important Bill in the sense that it gives power and authority to The National Treasury and Economic Planning to draw funds from the Consolidated Fund to finance the various programmes specified in the votes and programmes of ministries. Yesterday, I never got an opportunity to contribute. However, while listening to the debate, we were advised that it is important to read. I want to educate the Member for Kajiado, Hon. Ngogoyo who while debating, referred to the Supplementary Appropriation Bill as not addressing issues touching on the people. It is not pro-people.

When I look at this Supplementary Appropriation Bill, there is an allocation of Ksh2.3 billion for water and sanitation; Ksh1 billion for capital development expenditure in the State Department for Sports; Ksh1.9 billion for youth affairs and creative economy; and Ksh3.8 billion for the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) development. These are all pro-people programmes that have been prioritised by the Supplementary Appropriations Bill. In any case, this is just a supplementary re-arrangement of the Budget that moves funds to where they are needed the most. Otherwise, all the programmes that the Member has referred to, have been factored in the main Budget.

Thank you, I support.

Very well. Hon. Engineer Nzengu.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I want to contribute on matters Mwache Dam. As I address it, I want to ask for a clarification. I want to be guided on whether the money that is appropriated to the presidency is the same that is supposed to honour the pledges that he gave. In 2023, the President came to my Constituency and promised to buy a school bus for a school called Tharaka Girls. He also promised that he is going to build another school in Kakombe and so many other promises.

Hold on, Hon. (Eng.) Nzengu. Take your seat for a minute. There is a point of order from the Member for Endebess.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand under Standing Order 81 on relevance. We are talking about the Supplementary Appropriation Bill which is about allowing Government to withdraw funds to finance programmes. The only relevant thing he has talked about in that Supplementary Appropriation Bill is paying teachers and examiners. So, is Hon. Nzengu in order to bring up the issue of a promise of a school bus in this debate?

Hon. Nzengu.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not have any other opportunity to request for fairness for my constituents. So, I stand by my demand that if we are appropriating money for the presidency, then that money should be directed to honour that pledge. I stand corrected.

The Departmental Committee on Blue Economy, Water and Irrigation visited the community where the project is and unfortunately, it is not benefiting from the Mwache Dam Project. The water is collected from Mwache area but it goes to Mombasa County. We insisted as a Committee, that the host community be considered in that project. I hope that part of this money will be used to provide water for the host community because that has been the story over and over.

On the Karimenu II Dam Water Supply Project in Murang’a, the host community is also not benefiting from the water.

Is Karimenu in Murang’a?

It is in Ruiru in Murang’a.

It is not in Murang’a. Get your facts right.

Hon. (Eng) Paul Nzengu

: Let me correct myself. It is the Northern Collector Tunnel, which is in Murang’a. When we visited that project, it was the same story of the host community not benefiting from the project and its water benefiting other communities downstream. That is what is repeated in Mwache. So, I want to urge the planners of this water project to take care of the host community before it benefits other communities.

Thank you.

The Member for Tharaka.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Today, we are debating the Bill. Yesterday, we were on the Estimates and Statements that were made and are to be repeated this morning. It is important that I also respond to them. One, we were given areas where this money is actually being appropriated to, and we debated on those areas. On the repetition that there is money being allocated to the presidency, as it has been said, the presidency is as important as any other facet of this Government. To prove that, you can see what the Office is doing as we speak. The Chief Executive Officer of the country is out of the country, busy working for this country, in matters that are going to benefit us.

Two, we must admit that we have one of the best Deputy Presidents since the era of the late President Moi. He was the only person who could rival Professor Kindiki. You can see the way he is running the country in the absence of the Chief Executive Officer. I repeat, without any quibbles whatsoever, that we...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker?

What is out of order, Member for Kigumo? Hon. Murugara, take your seat.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We must be truthful and factual in this House. All statements must be verifiable.

Which Standing Order?

Standing Order 83. How can Hon. Murugara claim that the current Deputy President is the best we have had since Moi’s era? What criteria did he use?

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Let me give you the right scale…

Order, Members. The Member has just taken the Floor. He has not even finished a sentence. Give him a minute to say something.

Yes, I have not said anything. The scale I have used is my own. I am entitled to debate and express my opinion here.

Order, Members. We agreed that shouting will not sort out our issues. I am very fair and I will give every person a chance to speak.

Order, Hon. Ngogoyo. Take your seat.

Hon. Ngogoyo, I have not given you the Floor. Take your seat. Hon. Members, let us maintain decorum. We were doing very well. Even now, there is no reason to be agitated. We will hear each other.

Send him out.

No, I am not sending anyone out. Do not do the Speaker’s work.

Hon. Ngogoyo, I will give you an opportunity.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Kalasinga, what is out of order?

It is not only you, Hon. Ngogoyo, who is raising a point of order. Other Members are also raising points of order. I will indulge Hon. Kalasinga first.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, is Hon. Murugara in order to insinuate that the current Deputy President was elected by the people of Kenya? He was not. He was appointed by a few executives. How can he purport to tell us about a Deputy President who was not elected on the ballot?

Hon. Murugara.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is important that I remind the House that I am a seasoned lawyer in this country and everybody knows it. Nobody would ever point a finger at me. My friend, in this country, you do not elect a Deputy President. Deputy Presidents are nominated. Read your laws. We never cast any votes for a Deputy President. And we will never do so. We did not cast a vote even for Rigathi Gachagua. We only voted for the President, but his name appears with a nominated Deputy President.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Ngogoyo, what is out of order? Shouting at the Speaker does not add to your course.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have a lot of respect for you. I rise under Standing Order 97 (1) which provides that a Member cannot speak on a matter twice. Hon. Murugara spoke yesterday to this matter.

On what?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Murugara spoke to the Supplementary Budget. He is speaking for the second time. You cannot speak on a matter twice.

Hon. Ngogoyo, I know there is a lot of confusion about what happened yesterday and what is going on today. Be guided that yesterday was the Report which is very different from what we are dealing with today. This Bill has just been moved today. Yesterday, it was something different. Hon. Murugara, do not explain that. The Speaker has guided that you did not speak yesterday. Kindly finish your submission so that we make progress.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was called upon to substantiate what I said. I am also a student of history so I know what President Moi did when he was the Vice-President to Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. So, when I draw the comparison and analogy, I have the facts at the fingertips. If you wish to get them, I will give them to you one by one.

First, we have said that we are allocating Ksh200 million to the Office of the Deputy President. You cannot question that, I am sorry, because we passed the estimates yesterday. If you were not here, you have yourself to blame. Second, it depends on whether this Bill will carry the day or not, and it will. Therefore, we must appreciate the important work that the Deputy President is doing for the country. I must also laud the ODM Party. When they gave us the experts, we, from Mt. Kenya East, also gave this Government an expert in that name of the Deputy President of the Republic of Kenya, Prof. Kithure Kindiki.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Members, I need to clarify to the House on something. Yesterday’s Motion was: The Consideration of the Supplementary Estimates for the Financial Year 2025/2026, general debate: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the consideration of the same. So, even the Members who spoke yesterday, still have a chance to speak because this is a different Bill. What we did yesterday was a different Motion. Are we together, Hon. Members?

Yes.

We are doing very well. I will now give the chance to the Member for Suba South, Hon. Caroli.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What we are witnessing here is the long list of examples of poor planning in this Administration. A Government that is very good in promises and short on delivery that exhibits unprecedented confusion, impulsive expenditure, and limited transparency and accountability. We have before us a Supplementary Budget concentrating resources in the Office of the Deputy President for what they call operations; State House for what they call operations; Department of Internal Security for what they call general administration; and National Intelligence Service (NIS) for what they do not even describe what it is.

We know why this money is being allocated to these particular offices. It is to provide resources for political campaigns. We know that. They do it all the time. Confidential expenditure that nobody can verify and it goes on a long list, including the failed Kisumu rally that was financed by the State.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Order, Hon. Caroli, there is a point of order from the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Affairs.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. My good and learned friend, Hon. Caroli, is misleading the House. I challenge the Members who are making noise on this. We should delink the Office of the Presidency from the individuals. We should not use the Floor of this House to do our cheap politics.

It is my Committee that appropriates and allocates funds to these offices, and I can confirm to the country and this House that these funds are well-spent, justified and for the good of the country, not individuals.

Order, Members.

Hon. Kiborek, order.

Is it your business to ask him his point of order?

Order, Hon. Ngogoyo. Hon. Tongoyo, you were on a point of order. Proceed.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. My learned friend, Caroli Omondi, should not mislead this House.

Are you a lawyer?

I am not.

Only lawyers can call one another “learned friends”. Proceed.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, he is my friend, but he is not learned. The solution being offered is as bad as the problem itself. Wise men have told us before that life under a good government is rarely dramatic, but life under a bad government is always so.

We have been told that these funds are being allocated for the completion of stadia that are being built for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) . The Talanta Stadium, which they want to name after our great leader, Raila Amolo Odinga, is itself an example of how corrupt and inept this Government is. The original cost of that stadium was Ksh18 billion. It was revised to Ksh32 billion by the University of Nairobi. Today, that stadium costs US$342 million, which is about…

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point of order, Hon. Dawood?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Caroli should substantiate his statement that this money is being set aside for political campaigns. Can he substantiate which political campaigns he is talking about?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, there is an attached Schedule to the Bill. The Ksh200 million allocated to the Office of the Deputy President…

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Order, Hon. Caroli. The Leader of the Majority Party is on a point of order.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not want to interrupt Hon. Caroli. He has a right to say whatever he wants to. We are degrading the image of this House. Hon. Caroli has stood up in his place to contribute, but the best that other Members can do is engage in a shouting match. Hon. Rahim has a right to interject. He will do so for a minute and then Hon. Caroli continues with his contribution. The Member for Kajiado North is shouting at others to sit down. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you have rightly told the Member for Kajiado North, Hon. Ngogoyo, that you are the presiding officer of the House. I want to beseech Members not to degrade themselves to a level worse than county assemblies. We should allow….

Order!

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the inability to argue one’s points soberly speaks volumes about a Member’s maturity level.

Order, Leader of the Majority Party. Hon. Members, this House should maintain its dignity. Yesterday, I told you that I will not send anyone out of the House because they will appear in the headlines seeking sympathy from Kenyans. This House’s dignity must be protected. If anyone starts a shouting match without deferring to the responsibility of the Chair to maintain order in the House, I will send them out of the House. I have done that many times before and I am willing to do it again.

Hon. Members you will all get an opportunity to speak.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I thank the Leader of the Majority Party for those wise words. Unfortunately, he has set a bad precedent himself in this House. He spends a lot of time addressing imaginary enemies and wasting our time.

I was looking at the breakdown of allocations in the Schedule. If this was a serious Government, they could have anticipated some of these additional expenses when they were making the main Budget. There is no special emergency. Large amounts of resources are allocated to areas traditionally known for big expenditures and lack of accountability. Close to Ksh8 billion is being allocated to programmes that are used for politics. Around Ksh200 million is being allocated to the Office of the Deputy President to enable him to continue travelling around the country engaging in politics. Around Ksh1 billion is being allocated to State House. We do not know what happens there. We just see yellow colours adorning State House. It has become a party headquarters. It is no longer a house that is supposed to unify the entire Republic.

If you look at the National Intelligence Service (NIS) …

Order, Hon. Caroli. You are a lawyer. You understand the traditions in all democracies. There are some institutions that cannot be discussed in the House. If you must discuss them, you must do so in camera. You cannot discuss the NIS, the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) , the Navy or the Airforce.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was the top constitutional lawyer in my class. Let me remind the House…

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point of order, Member for Gem?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Caroli has been a beneficiary of many visits to State House. When he visits State House, he must have some tea. It is an important institution. I have visited State House with him many times in the night. He cannot say that he does not know what…

Order, Member for Gem. That is a point of argument. It is not a point of order. Proceed, Hon. Caroli.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, our Constitution places all security agencies under civilian oversight of this House. Section 23 of our Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act clearly states that all documents, whether from the NIS or the military, are to be brought to this House for scrutiny. What I am doing is correct. There is no law that says that we do not have oversight. Our Constitution is clear. Parliamentary powers and privileges are clear.

Order. I do not know if you are in your first term or second term. You are in your first term.

Viva! One term!

Who was on the Floor at the time?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, the interruptions continue but I am still soldiering on. Let me strongly oppose this Supplementary Budget for the reasons I have stated. I have given the example of the Talanta Stadium, where a whopping Ksh42 billion is being spent without a tender and without sufficient public scrutiny. We know why. We know what is happening there. However, at some point in the not-too-distant future, there will be accountability, and we will make sure it happens.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Leader of the Majority Party, followed by the Hon. Otiende Amollo.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Supplementary Budget II for the FY 2025/2026. Let me begin by reiterating what I said when we were considering the Report of the Committee. Ordinarily, a second supplementary budget is intended to realign expenditure from one State Department that may not be able to absorb its allocation to another State Department that can utilise those funds within the same fiscal year. Alternatively, as is the case with some of the items before us, it is intended to provide for urgent and emergency funding that had not been budgeted for. I wish to point out a few issues.

Hon. Members…

Yes, I am of the view that any Member, from either side of the House... I wish I had the power to send anyone out. Hon. Members, I was serious when I said that we must uphold the decorum of this House. Hon. Caroli Omondi will stand in his place and make his point. If there is anything he says which I disagree, I will correct the situation like I will be responding to what he has said about the Talanta Stadium.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am happy that you have guided the House on the allocation to the NIS. The NIS is receiving an additional Ksh3.5 billion, while the State Department for

Internal Security is receiving an additional Ksh1.5 billion for security operations. Those of us who come from areas affected by insecurity, and Members from Marsabit, will tell you the problems they have had in the recent past... One cannot wait until the next financial year to appropriate funds for security operations because if anything was to happen and our security agencies stated that they were unable to respond because they lacked resources, the discussion in this House would be very different. What exactly are we providing for? Ordinarily, I would not have gone into these details but because some of us wish to politicise this matter, it is good to point it out.

Let me begin with matters that directly affect you as Members of Parliament. In this Supplementary Budget, if Hon. Yegon and Hon. Benjamin Lang’at would listen, they would know that an additional Ksh110 million has been provided for Members’ medical cover. I do not need to mention names or recount what some of our colleagues have had to endure in the recent past and the support they got from this institution. It may happen to anyone of you before the end of this financial year or the next.

Hon. Rahim Dawood, standing where he is, may interject Hon. Caroli Omondi because he wishes to be seen on the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC). For him to be seen on KBC, Parliament must pay KBC. Accordingly, we have provided an additional Ksh200 million to facilitate continued live broadcasts of parliamentary proceedings so that Members who wish to be seen on television may continue to be seen.

With regard to sports stadia, I do not wish to dwell on the politics introduced by Hon. Caroli Omondi. He even said the University of Nairobi had its own figures, as if the University of Nairobi is a procurement authority. For those of you who fly, if you listen to your captains, they have been referring to the monastery as geographical coordinates as you come to land in Nairobi. Today, particularly when approaching Wilson Airport, because one of the runways that faces the monastery is closed, I hear them referring to the new landmark in the city and the country—and indeed in East Africa and across the African continent—the Talanta Raila Odinga International Stadium.

Hon. Caroli Omondi does not want to hear anything to do with the Talanta Raila Odinga International Stadium because it bears the name of Raila Odinga, a great statesman and national leader. I know some Members may not conceptualise what Appropriations-in-Aid (A-in-A) is. Under A-in-A from the Sports Fund, we are allowing them a further Ksh4.1 billion for sports stadia.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I said yesterday, these Supplementary Estimates II also realign areas where a State Department may not absorb everything. If you look at it, there is a reduction of about Ksh700 million to align the Budget with the actual institutional requirements. Ksh1.8 billion comes from the Contingency Fund. When you budget, you provide money for the Contingency Fund. Hon. Samuel Atandi can tell you that we allocated money for the Contingency Fund in the Budget we made for the next financial year. What does this money do? If there is any emergency that you did not provide for in the budget, you utilise it. We are now taking Ksh1.8 billion because we are coming to the end of the year, and that money has not been spent. We are taking it to more important things where we can spend it. For instance, you want to watch the FIFA World Cup broadcasting rights for KBC. Ksh150 million has been allocated for this.

The people of Kwale, entire Coast Region and parts of the Lower Eastern will give you horror stories. I do not want to say horo like someone said here that Kenyans watch in horo.

allocating money for development, you must be certain that you will get Exchequer releases. If you are aware, they have probably started strangling the system now to slow down Exchequer releases from the National Treasury.

There are Members who belittle others. I heard a Member belittling the Member for Nandi Hills. I know that the people of Nandi Hills have roads. I am sure the Member for Nandi Hills can name them. They have roads provided for in the budget because the Member for Nandi Hills is very diligent. He takes time to follow up on development projects in his constituency. I dare the Member for Kajiado North, who was spiting the Member for Nandi Hills, to tell his people a single road that he has followed up to provide for them.

Order, Leader of the Majority Party. You understand the rules very well. You cannot discuss a fellow Member's conduct both inside and outside the House without a substantive Motion.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand guided. As always, I cannot argue with Hon. Temporary Speaker because he is the only person with the power to throw me out of the House. I abide by what you have said because I want us to allow each other to debate.

When the Member for Kajiado North spites the Member for Nandi Hills, he gets an opportunity to defend Parliament because he is my Member, and I know line by line what is in the budget. I know Nandi Hills Constituency has adequate roads because of the diligence and follow up by their Member. I know the people of Kajiado North are still crying very hard. They are my immediate neighbours.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Order, Leader of the Majority Party. A Member is on a point of order.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Is the Leader of the Majority Party in order to keep referring to Members of Parliament and other people outside this Parliament? Every time we have a debate, he has to delay it by naming individuals who are not in this Parliament and other Members of Parliament, trying to degrade and demean people with his remarks.

Order, Hon. Member. I have heard you. I am listening to him keenly. The moment he crosses the boundary and discusses the conduct of the Member of Parliament for Narok North, even to say that he is not doing good enough for his people to get roads, I will rule him out of order.

Order, Hon. Members. We are in a Session. Order, Hon. Wakili Edward Muriu!

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Since my time is about to end, I have no business replying to the Member for Starehe. I mentioned Kajiado North because they are my immediate neighbours. I am working very hard for them to get access to roads. The people of Kajiado North deserve development like any other part of Kenya. I have worked very hard. I made sure that the roads that connect the Ngong Bypass are in this budget. Almost 40 per cent of the people…

Give him an additional three minutes to conclude.

As I conclude, Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was talking about the Ngong Bypass Road and the Matasia loops. Almost 40 per cent of the people who live in Kajiado North migrated from my village in Gikambura. They call me every day. As a national leader, I have to support them. I will make sure that the Ngong Bypass Road is constructed in the next financial year. It is in the Budget. We will get an opportunity to tell the people of Nandi Hills the kind of work their Member has put in because I went there. I know the roads he has seen me in my office to help him with.

Hon. Caroli Omondi

: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point of order, Hon. Caroli Omondi?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, is the Leader of the Majority Party in order to make such reckless statements? He has said that he ensured the money for the construction of the road was allocated in the Budget. He has also said that he would ensure that money is allocated for something else in the budget in the next financial year. We have a budget framework. We have a process of making budgets in this country. Are you revealing to the country that those processes do not matter? Your whims matter when you want to attend to your relatives.

Proceed.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, that was an unnecessary interjection that I have no time for. We all know how we make the budget and we live in this country. If you are not a diligent Member of Parliament to follow something up, nothing will land on your table. You must interact with the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the State Departments.

Add him more minutes.

Order, Hon. Members. Give him half a minute. Conclude.

I will conclude by saying that State House does not only mean the State House in Nairobi. We are all aware we have done a number of state lodges across the country, including in Wajir, Northern Kenya. People who felt excluded from Kenya. Even in Homa Bay there is a State Lodge. Therefore, recurrent expenditure in State House cannot be what it was last year. We just hosted the Africa-France Summit. The

President hosting all those people cost money in recurrent expenditure. We have to provide for those expenses. The same for the Office of the Deputy President. I have seen one former Member of Parliament from Mathira posting on social media. But we must…

On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Do you wish to be informed by Hon. Kaluma?

Hon. Kaluma is very intelligent. He should inform me.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I inform the Leader of the Majority Party that unlike during the times of our former presidents, nowadays one goes to State House and you are not given fanta and biscuits; you are welcomed as a Kenyan. We have a President who has opened State House to everybody; not just some top people. Anybody can go to State House and sit with their leader. We, therefore, have to budget for it.

Hon. Leader of the Majority.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was concluding. I thank Hon. Kaluma for that information. Unlike some of our former presidents who spent a lot of time in State House, our President is very mobile. In that mobility that makes every Kenyan feel as part and parcel of our country and creates inclusivity, togetherness and unity of our nation, the President travels across the country. For example, this morning the President left Paris, France and landed in Mombasa, where he is now presiding over Our Ocean Conference (OOC) . He is meeting with hundreds of thousands of delegates from around the world to grow our blue economy that is transforming not just the coast region, but also the Nyanza region, Lake Turkana and other blue economy areas. We cannot compare President William Ruto who is a teetotaller with... You know that there used to be a bar in State House. It has since been closed. This man is now going to bars. Before that there were very many active bars in State House. They are all closed. They are now building a church in State House. That church is being built by money from the President himself.

Thank you.

Hon. Otiende Amollo.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2026) , but with a caution. This is from the perspective of the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) . I see my colleagues here; Hon. Nabii, Dr Oundo, Hon. Koech and Hon. Namuar. I have two things.

The first one is the question of actual expenditure. I note that we have 12 days to the end of the financial year. I am hoping that as Hon. Atandi asks us to support this Bill and we do, that the Committee will appropriately caution all these agencies. That they had better be sure they will spend this money before the end of the financial year. This is because we routinely deal with issues of agencies that have not spent even up to 40 per cent of what they were allocated. My caution is that if any of these agencies should end up having an audit query for not having spent, then the Budget and Appropriations Committee should appropriately penalise them by reducing their budget in the next cycle.

My second caution is on confidential expenditure. I note that half of this Supplementary Budget, that is about Ksh6 billion goes to three agencies that usually have confidential expenditure. That is State House Ksh1 billion, Internal Security Ksh1.5 billion and National Intelligence Service Ksh3.5 billion. Part of what we have routinely faced are some of these agencies taking virtually every other expenditure and putting it under confidential expenditure. They say that the National Treasury has not updated or revised the regulations to indicate what

confidential expenditure is and what is not confidential expenditure. I urge the Departmental

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Order, Hon. Otiende. Hon. Kaluma is on a point of order.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I never interrupt Hon. Amollo. But there is constant mention of confidential vote through the presentations. This is a very sensitive issue. If I remember correctly, the idea of confidential votes was abolished last year. Could Hon. Amollo mention to us this confidential vote that he and the Members are referring to, so that we can make a decision with knowledge around it? As far as I am aware, there is no confidential vote here.

Hon. Otiende Amollo, proceed.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, if that was a point of order, then I do not know under which Standing Order it arises. Because that is a contribution, I want to tell you…

Order, order.

I want to respond.

Order. Hon. Otiende Amollo, you are a senior Member here. Standing Order 91 says that:

“A Member shall be responsible for the accuracy of any facts which the Member alleges to be true and may be required to substantiate any such facts instantly.” What he should have asked for is for you to substantiate what these confidential votes are.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, this is as a matter of law, not as a matter of fact. I will explain. I started by mentioning some of my colleagues with whom we served in the Public Accounts Committee, and they are here. Whenever we seek clarification on the audit queries for the three agencies I have indicated, including yesterday, they indicate that these fall under the confidential vote which cannot be responded to because the National Treasury has not developed guidelines. The only point I wanted to make is this: It is a very simple point. We do not need to disagree on this. The Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, in conjunction with the Budget and Appropriations Committee, should urge the National Treasury to develop these guidelines to separate what is confidential from what is not confidential. To the best of my knowledge and our Committee, no such distinction has been established.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Tongoyo is on a point of order.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to be very factual. I respect our senior counsel there. If you are keen to look into those specifications, there is nothing like confidential. For example, in the Ministry of Interior and National Administration it is dedicated to security operations which is totally opposite and different from confidential. In State House as well, it is just other operating expenses. There is nothing like confidential. Let us not mislead the House or misinform the country. Those are not confidential. It should be as clear as that.

You can only rise on a point of order if there is an active Member on the Floor. Wait until Hon. Otiende Amollo resumes his debate then you can rise on a point of order. Proceed, Hon. Otiende Amollo.

On a point of information, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Point of information?

I accept to be informed by Hon. (Dr) Oundo.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, we are responsible Members of Parliament. We are leaders in this country. We swore to uphold the Constitution of Kenya. Those of us who sit in the Public Accounts Committee which I have sat in since 2020 know this. Every year, there are several agencies that have a confidential vote that is never subject to being unpacked. That is what Hon. Otiende Amollo is alluding to. I sit in the Public Accounts Committee. I can even bring to this House the Report of the Auditor-General that was discussed even as late as yesterday for purposes of substantiating this issue; that there is a confidential vote in our books of accounts.

Let him rise first. Proceed, Hon. Otiende Amollo.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. My point is a very simple one. I do not know why it attracts controversy.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point, Leader of the Majority Party?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have listened to what Hon. Oundo has said. I do not know if he is a Member of the Public Accounts Committee. But I know that the Senior Counsel was a Member of the Public Accounts Committee, if not, the Chairperson, sometime back. I think we need to make clear what Hon. Ngogoyo and Hon. Kaluma have said. Before 2024, there used to be a confidential vote, but it was later abolished. We must not confuse that with classified expenditure, as you rightly guided. There are what are usually classified as expenditures, such as military operations, NIS activities and part of what Hon. Ngogoyo is speaking about regarding security operations, which cannot be discussed in an open forum.

However, on the issue of confidential votes, I would like Hon. Oundo, since he alleges it is something they discussed in the Public Accounts Committee, to appreciate that matters discussed in a committee cannot be debated here unless they are contained in a formal report before this House. Therefore, I would advise that if there is anything they wish to address through the Public Accounts Committee, they should include it in their report and bring it before the House. If the Auditor-General raises issues, Senior Counsel knows very well that the report will come before this House and we shall debate it. Let us not use this forum to send the wrong message to the public, as I can see attempts to do so.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, if I may wind up my contribution, whether you call it classified, confidential, or other vote, my point is very simple. The agencies constantly come before us and say they cannot respond because they still use the terms “confidential” or "classified". But the point is that the National Treasury has not developed regulations to distinguish what may be classified and what may not. Most of these agencies come and say they cannot respond to almost everything because it falls within that

category. All I am saying is that it behoves us, as a House, to work with the National Treasury to create that distinction.

Lastly, Hon. Temporary Speaker…

Order, Hon. Otiende Amollo. I will repeat this. I have had the opportunity to serve in the 7th and 10th Parliaments. There is intelligence gathering, counter intelligence, counter-terrorism and many other security operations. Do you expect those institutions to tell you that they used funds for espionage activities? Those things are not for public disclosure. There is military hardware and ordnance. There are officers who are there. Even the number of personnel in the armed forces is classified information. Members, let us not confuse matters of statecraft.

Order, Hon. Mbui. Without proper arrangements through a security-cleared committee, this Parliament cannot openly discuss matters relating to our security institutions; not the military. Nobody is supposed to know how many helicopters we have, how many aircraft we have, or details of such assets. That information relates to expenditure on ordnance. I want you to know that when we get to that area, it is a no-go zone for anyone. Any other area is open, but not the security machinery, intelligence or the armed forces of this country.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

On whom? Me? You see, that is why I keep saying you are a first-timer. You rise on a point of order when a Member is contributing.

Order. I am not debating; I am guiding the House. Proceed, Hon. Amollo. We do not want this basic activism to go into national security. National security is not an easy thing to mess around with. Proceed.

Thank you. It is funny that the very point you are making is the point I am making, yet you are making it by way of correcting me. My point is simple.

No, I am informing the House.

The fact that certain things cannot be disclosed to the public should not be an excuse to cover even those which should be audited. The National Treasury should develop very clear guidelines stating which matters cannot be subjected to public debate and which ones can. You cannot take the entire allocation to a security agency and say it cannot be audited simply because it is a security agency. That is all I am saying. You are actually agreeing with me, yet we have spent so much time on this for no reason.

I want to conclude with two points. First, I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point of order, Hon. Kaluma? Order, Hon. Saney. If someone rises on a point of order, I will give them. When he is contributing, that is the time to raise a point of order. What is out of order, Hon. Kaluma?

Can you give the microphone to Hon. Kaluma? Use any microphone nearby. Come to the front. Can you give the microphone to Hon. Kaluma for God’s sake? You rise on a point of order when someone is contributing and has said something that is out of order. Therefore, Hon. Wamboka, no one was contributing at the time. Proceed

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Otiende Amollo raises a valid point that if matters are confidential, there should be regulations governing them. We do not contest that point. However, my point of order is that we are debating the Supplementary Appropriation Bill (No.2) of 2026, and there is no provision relating to a confidential vote in the Bill before us. My concern is that, while Hon. Amollo’s explanation is sound, if we allow the debate to proceed in that direction, the presumption by the public will be that there are confidential provisions here yet they are not. Could we, therefore, agree for purposes of relevance, that there is no confidential vote provision in the Bill currently before the House?

Clearly, what Hon. Amollo is saying is that, whether classified or confidential, there is a need for guidelines from the National Treasury. That is perfectly in order. Proceed.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for that intervention. I am coming to my last point.

On a point of information, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Wamboka is also on a point of order. What is your point of order?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I wonder why people are panicking. Hon. Otiende Amollo is saying that as recently as yesterday, in the meeting…

Order. That is why I keep wondering why Members do not read their own Standing Orders and understand the basic rules of debate in the House. You rise on a point of order…

I said it was a point of information.

Did he accept to be informed? Wait until he accepts. It is not for me to grant that. Proceed, Hon. Amollo.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, you will realise that I have barely taken two minutes.

I will give you an additional one minute. Would you wish to be informed by Hon. Wamboka?

Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I come to my third point, on a general matter, I agree with the Leader of the Majority Party that we need decorum in this House. We can disagree but reasonably, and that includes not raising unnecessary points of order and by way of contribution which you can wait and make during your own time. That also includes unfortunately the Leader of Majority Party, not decampaigning your own colleagues, by saying what they have not done for their constituencies.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I sympathise with you, because in this House we have two sides of the aisle but this aisle is very difficult since we have both the Majority Party side and the Minority Party side. There is also the ‘minority’ on the Minority Party side and so people keep criss-crossing and you really cannot quite tell but still on the ultimate, it is the balance that will achieve the decorum in this House. As I finish and again, I agree with the Leader of Majority Party…

Give him 20 seconds.

I agree that the Raila Amolo Odinga Stadium is an icon but for the avoidance of doubt, Raila Amollo Odinga’s name cannot have another name beside it. It is not Talanta Raila Amollo Odinga, it is Raila Amolo Odinga Stadium. Thank you.

Hon. Members, order. The opportunity now belongs to the newly elected Member of Parliament for Emurua Dikirr.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Thank you for granting me this opportunity to make my Maiden Speech in this honourable House. I rise today with profound humility and deep gratitude as the duly elected Member of Parliament for Emurua Dikirr Constituency following the By-Election held on 14th May 2026 under the United Democratic Alliance Party (UDA) .

First and foremost, I thank the Almighty God for His grace. I also thank the people of Emurua Dikirr for the confidence and trust they bestowed upon me.

Proceed.

As you might be aware, this was my fourth attempt to seek the mandate to serve my people, and standing here today is a testimony that determination, patience and faith can indeed reward. I remain deeply humbled by the overwhelming support from all corners of our constituency, from Mogondo to Ololmasani, Ilkerin to Kapsasian and every village in between. I equally thank the UDA Party leadership, our Party Leader, His Excellency the President, Dr William Samoei Ruto, my family, friends, campaign team, council of elders, religious leaders and every supporter who stood with me in votes, prayers and encouragement through this historic journey. Even to those who did not vote for me, I will be a leader to all.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I stand here today, I do so in shadow of immense sorrow following the tragic loss of our beloved leader the late Hon. Johanna Ng’eno, who lost his life in the unfortunate helicopter crash on 28th February 2026.

Hon. Member, I am made to understand that you had an opportunity yesterday to address the House although you are doing it on the issue of the Late Konchellah and that was your maiden moment. Nonetheless, the Chair will give you an opportunity but you must intersperse it with contribution on the Order Paper today. Proceed.

Well guided. We lost a fearless leader, a patriot and a servant of the people who dedicated his life to fighting for the dignity and progress of our constituency. May his soul rest in peace.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I did not come here to replace the late Hon. Johanna Ng’eno for no one can replace him, rather, I come to continue the journey we began together as

comrades in the year 2007 when the quest to carve out Emurua Dikirr from Kilgoris Constituency began. By 2013, we had already succeeded to have our own Constituency as a people and so I honour this legacy through service, humility and commitment to the people he loved dearly. I pledge to carry forward his dream for a better Emurua Dikirr, and to ensure that his vision does not die with him. Many Hon. Members who attended the burial of our departed leader had an opportunity to interact with the people of Emurua Dikirr and witnessed both the progress made and the opportunities that still exist for further development within our constituency. Indeed, we appreciate the strides that have been made over the years in the sectors of road, infrastructure, education, rural electrification, agriculture, and establishment of important public institutions across our constituency. However, as the youngest and growing constituency, there remains a need for continued investment to expand road network, a matter on which I am already engaging relevant authorities. There is a need to improve access to clean and reliable water, enhance electricity connectivity through the Last Mile Programme, strengthen agricultural support programmes for our farmers. I dream of schools where every child can learn in dignity and compete equally with children from other parts of Kenya. On health care, I am committed to working closely with the county government of Narok and relevant national agencies to ensure our health facilities, including Emurua Dikirr Level 4 Hospital, are well equipped, adequately staffed and fully operational to serve our people effectively. The greatest strength of Emurua Dikirr is its people. They are resilient, industrious, and hardworking citizens whose potential, if well supported, can greatly contribute to both our local and national economy. I look forward to working with various stakeholders to open more economic and employment opportunities for our youth across the four wards. While acknowledging my legislative roles, as per Constitution, in particular Articles 94 and 95, I undertake to exercise firm oversight over National Government Constituency Development Fund (NG-CDF) to ensure that every cent allocated to Emurua Dikirr serves the intended purpose. I also commit myself to ensuring fairness, transparency, and equity in allocation of bursaries so that no deserving child misses education because of poverty or discrimination. I wish to acknowledge the resilience, strength, and determination of the people of Emurua Dikirr. For years, our people have endured hardship, marginalisation, and neglect, yet they have never lost hope. Today, they look to this House with renewed optimism and their voices shall finally be heard and their challenges addressed. I promise the people of Emurua Dikirr that I shall serve them faithfully, protect their interests fearlessly, and I commit to be a unifying factor in our bid to transform our constituency into a beacon of progress and opportunity. As I conclude, I want to thank the following Members of Parliament who came to support me way back in 2017, led by the Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah, Hon. Tongoyo, Hon. Kibagendi, Hon. Ngogoyo, Hon. Pareyio, Hon. Tonkei Rebecca, among many others. Although I found Hon. Kibagendi and Hon. Ngogoyo not supporting the Government, I wish them to cross and support the Government of the day. May God bless Emurua Dikirr and may God bless Kenya. Thank you very much.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

What is your point of order Hon. Mizighi. Give the Member for Taita Taveta, Hon. Haika Mizighi, the microphone.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise on Standing Order 95. Since we have had enough time to adequately contribute to the Motion, I request that the Mover to be now called upon to reply.

Hon. Members, take your seat.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Before you reply, I wish to draw the attention of the House to something important. Hon. Members, please read the Standing Orders. You have served for four years of this parliamentary term, but I get the feeling that most of you have not read the Standing Orders. If you are sent out of the House and you fail to do so, refuse or try to become a hero, the Speaker has no option but to call on the Serjeant-at-Arms to remove you. If they remove you, action to be taken on refusal to withdraw is contained under Standing Order 111, which states:

If any Member shall refuse to withdraw when required to do so, by or under these Standing Orders, the Speaker or the Chairperson of Committee as the case may be, having called the attention of the House or Committee to the fact that recourse to force is necessary in order to compel such Member to withdraw, shall order such Member to be removed and such Member shall thereupon without question put be suspended from the service of the House for a minimum of twenty-one days and a maximum of ninety days and shall during such suspension, forfeit the right of access to the precincts of Parliament and the Serjeant-at-Arms shall take necessary action to enforce the order. In addition, a Member loses his… You know what I am talking about. If you want to become a hero, you had better know the consequences, which can be quite severe. I have never had an opportunity to throw a Member out of the House, and I never want to. Let us maintain decorum and dignity. I will always try to be balanced. If you feel that you have not been heard, the Speaker will always ensure balance and fairness so that all sides are heard. This is a House of dignity.

Proceed and reply, Hon. Atandi.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to thank Members as this is the first time that we are discussing the budget Bills with the House almost half-full. In the past, only a handful of Members are present during consideration of finance and budget matters. I thank them again for the robust debate on this matter.

The Budget and Appropriations Committee transacts business from Departmental Committees. During the budget-making process, we meet Committee Chairpersons. They come to us with different resource requirements for each department and ministry. I wish to confirm that we have never executed a budget where a ministry receives their full resource requirements. We always give them a handful hoping that we will give them more during consideration of the Supplementary Estimates.

For example, Parliament’s resource requirement is about Ksh65 billion, but we were only able to give them about Ksh50 billion. The National Police Service requires about Ksh220 billion, but there is a funding gap of about Ksh65 billion. The Judiciary requires Ksh40 billion, but we were only able to allocate to them just under Ksh30 billion. State House requires Ksh25 billion, but they currently have a Ksh8 billion deficit, which we were unable to fund. Therefore, this debate about State House being overfunded needs to come to an end. Members, since you sit in these Committees, you should have a better understanding of the

budget compared to the public. You should have the facts before coming to the Floor of the House to accuse us of allocating more resources to State House.

The NIS has a funding gap of Ksh30 billion, which we were unable to resource. We must agree that the House will never appropriate sufficient resources for each ministry or department. Therefore, we should stop the politicisation of the Budget. There are no politics involved in the budget-making process. The allocations are proper and sufficient to run those specific ministries. Therefore, what we are doing as the Budget and Appropriations Committee is not to over-appropriate resources for particular people.

With those few remarks, I reply. Thank you.

Hon. Members, we have a Supplementary Order Paper. Now, we are going to Order No. 9 (i) . Order No. 9 (ii) is withdrawn to an appropriate time in the future.

I would like to move that Clause 2 of the Bill…

The Temporary Chairman

: Order. We are on the First Schedule.

There is no amendment.

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move:

THAT, the First Schedule to the Bill be deleted and replaced with the following new Schedule—

be inserted, put and agreed to)

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move:

THAT, the Second Schedule to the Bill be amended and replaced with the following new Schedule—

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move:

THAT, Clause 5 of the Bill be amended by inserting the expression “R1152” immediately after the expression “R1071”.

Clause 2

The Temporary Chairman

: Hon. Chair.

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move:

THAT, Clause 2 of the Bill be amended by deleting the words “thirteen billion eight hundred eighty-five million twenty-three thousand nine hundred eleven”

appearing after the words “the sum of” and substituting therefor the words “fourteen billion eight hundred one million twenty-three thousand nine hundred eleven.” (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)

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I beg to move that the Committee do report to the House its consideration of the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2026) and its approval thereof with amendments.

The Temporary Chairman

: Members on the Aisle, we are standing for reporting.

Chairperson, to report to the House.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to report that the Committee of the whole House has considered the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2026) and approved the same with amendments.

The Mover to move agreement with the report.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee on the said report. I request the Vice-Chairman of the Budget and Appropriation Committee, Hon. Pukose to second the Motion for agreement with the report and Committee of the whole House.

Hon. Pukose.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I second.

Put the Question.

Is it the mood of the House that I put the Question?

Yes.

Hon. George Sunkuyia.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Report. Supplementary budgets are an important part of public finance management. It is not always possible to predict. Even the Government needs to announce when the budget is prepared. As the financial year progresses, new priorities and urgent needs may arise. It is, therefore, the responsibility of the House to consider and approve the necessary adjustments so that Government services can continue without interruption. Additionally, the finances proposed in the Bill support Government programmes and ongoing development projects.

I support.

Member for Nandi Hills, Hon. Kitur.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to the Bill. I support this Bill, particularly because it will impact a number of programmes. One of the critical areas that affects my constituents is the issue of sports academies. Some of the funds allocated will go towards sports academies, and I have several in my constituency.

Earlier in the debate, one of my colleagues, Hon. Ngogoyo, mentioned that we may not be aware of some of the programmes being undertaken and what this Bill seeks to achieve. I want to inform Hon. Ngogoyo that, having also seen what is happening in Kajiado North, I have championed several programmes in this House and through its committees for the people of Nandi Hills.

Hon. Ngogoyo, when you took the initiative earlier to comment on the Budget and on some of the matters contained in this Appropriations Bill, I would like to point out that there are several programmes in my constituency, including roads such as the Savani-Nandi Hills Road, the Siwo-Nandi Hills Road, and the Emgwen-Nandi Hills Road. I have pursued many programmes. If I challenged you today to state what you have been able to push for as a Member of this House, I am sure you would be inclined to speak mainly about what happens to the Wamunyoro teams and stuff like that. However, that can be discussed another day.

I also support this Bill because of the allocation to the NYOTA Programme, which will have a significant impact on young people in our country. As we support this Bill, many young people stand to benefit. Finally, there is the issue of education, as regards the funds that will go towards examination invigilation and related programmes. Let me also mention the issue of ICT. I serve on the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation, and one of the matters that came before our Committee was the allocation of Ksh150 million to support the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) in broadcasting FIFA World Cup matches. This is very important because the current Government has greatly promoted talent development in our country. The allocation will ensure that Kenyans have an opportunity to watch these matches through KBC, which will have the broadcasting rights across the country.

Because of rank, Hon. Adan Keynan will have the last comment at this stage.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Allow me to make just two comments on this. This House holds the title of the “august House”. As I followed the debate yesterday and this morning, one thing that came to my mind is the history of our democracy. I do not want to delve too much into it, but my plea to all my colleagues is to remember that we are one. You can do whatever you want, but out there, we are Members of the 13th Parliament.

Budget-making is a constitutional process. Secondly, it is a political process. Thirdly, and more fundamentally, it is a party-driven process. That is why each party has a manifesto during the campaign period, which must be translated into a workable, pragmatic, Executive- driven economic agenda. I am sure there will be a lot of debate as we delve into this. I urge my colleagues to prepare an alternative argument when they want to contribute to a particular issue. That is what Kenyans want to hear. I plead with my colleagues not to turn the House into what I saw today and yesterday afternoon. That is not the kind of image we want to project.

Finally, I have gone through the Bill, and two things have been partly captured. His Excellency the President and the entire Government were in Wajir on 1st June during Madaraka Day. You heard the apology from none other than the President of the Republic of Kenya. That was the first event of its kind in our history, but it will not be the last. It recently happened in Kitui and Wajir, and I am sure it will happen in other parts of the Republic of Kenya. Given the history of our region and the circumstances, I have been yearning for a budget tailored to that particular activity and others of similar nature.

The Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill is well documented. Therefore, I urge Members to support it. However, let us act differently during this afternoon's Sitting. That will give us a better image and understanding. That is what Kenyans are looking forward to.

I support the Bill.

Hon. Members, you will be able to comment on the Bill before the conclusion of the Third Reading. Allow me to put the question.

Mover of the Bill to move Third Reading.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2026) be now read a Third Time. I request the Vice-Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee to second.

Let us have Hon. Pukose.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I second.

Let us have Hon. Charles Ngusya.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I support this Supplementary Appropriation (No. 2) Bill because I have seen

its great importance. We are hosting the AFCON next year. I am a Member of the Departmental

Committee on Sports and Culture. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) unexpectedly

Next is Hon. Japheth Nyakundi, followed by Hon. Timothy Toroitich.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I also take this opportunity to support the Supplementary Appropriations (No.2) Bill. Firstly, I have heard the Member of Parliament for Suba South Constituency, who has just left, talk about the stadia. I want to tell him that the stadiums that he has seen are being built with money from the Sports Fund, which is Appropriations-in-Aid.

I urge this House to support this Budget because initially, we did not have stadia like Talanta, Kisii and Homa Bay, where he comes from. The money in the Supplementary Budget is very important because we have seen what the Government is doing with money from sports. We did not see any money from the Sports Fund used to build stadia all over the country.

I support this Supplementary Budget because it funds many initiatives, including examination invigilators. The other day, we saw teachers who went on strike last year because they were not paid. However, this time round, money has been put in early enough so that, as the students sit for their exams this year, the teachers can get the money to support invigilation. Generally, I want to support this Supplementary Budget in totality. I thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee, especially the able Chairman, Hon. Samuel Atandi.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Timothy Toroitich, make your contribution in one minute.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand to support the letter, spirit and intent of the Supplementary Appropriations (No.2) Bill of 2026 for only one reason. I have seen that we have allocated Ksh1.5 billion towards the Ministry of Interior and National Administration. I come from the Kerio Valley Region, which has prevalent security matters. I am happy that since the Government of President William Ruto took over, we have seen the security situation in Kerio Valley stabilise. Therefore, I support the allocation of Ksh1.5 billion.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also support the Supplementary Appropriations (No.2) Bill. I support the Bill mostly for the Sports Fund and the funds allocated to it. I even spoke with the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Sports Fund. In my constituency, repair work will start at the Undugu Grounds.

Apart from that, a few roads that had stalled in my constituency, like Lang’ata Road from Galleria in Karen, all the way to Cross Road Oleshapara in South C and Muhoho Road, have also been allocated some money. I want to take this earliest opportunity to also thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Hon. Atandi, for the good job in allocating this money in the Supplementary Budget.

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Naomi Waqo, in 30 seconds.

Hon. Naomi Waqo (Marsabit County, UDA): Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support this Supplementary Appropriations (No.2) Bill. I also congratulate the Committee, as the State Departments for Water and Sanitation, Sports, Youth Affairs and Creative Economy, and Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) received sufficient funding.

Again, the Presidency is responsible for the organisation and coordination of Government business, and much of this money is allocated to it. I support this, and I congratulate the Committee. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Members, I have confirmed that we have the requisite quorum in the House for purposes of making a decision.

Thank you Hon. Members, for a good morning session. Let us be upstanding.

Hon. Members, the time being