Anthony Kimani Ichung'wah

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion for consideration of the Second Supplementary Estimates for the current financial year as ably moved by the Hon. Deputy Speaker and seconded by Hon. Pukose. Being an economist, Hon. Makali Mulu would have wanted more...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to reply to the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 2 of 2025) . First, I thank all the Members who contributed to the debate on this Bill. As I said while moving the debate,...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes, Hon. Speaker. As soon as the Clerks- at-the-Table share the Schedule, we can go back to Order No.11. However, I think they should have published them on the gadgets in the House so we can access them from there.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Just post them on the gadgets.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. That means they have to come to this House for approval of the additional Ksh48 billion. That is what the National Treasury should be doing. As I congratulate Hon. Atandi for his election as the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the passage of this BPS for the Financial Year 2025/2026 and the Medium Term. This BPS comes at a time when our economy is recovering from the 2022 dilapidated economy. 12th March 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move: THAT, the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 2 of 2025) be now read a Second Time. We published this Bill for the second time following the lapse of the mediation process on the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the County Governments (Revenue Raising Process) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.11 of 2023) be now read a Third Time. I request Hon. David Ochieng’ to second.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I was giving an example of a county – I do not want to name it – whose governor told me that the impasse between the RMLF and this Bill was making them lose Ksh1.1 billion that should have gone to water,...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Public Audit (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.4 of 2024) be now read a Third Time. I also request Hon. Irene Mayaka to second.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, this is a short Motion. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Orders 28 (4) (Calendar of the House) and 30 (3) (c) (Hours of Meeting) , this House resolves to— 11th March 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, further to the resolutions of the House of 5th and 6th March 2025 regarding reconstitution of Committees, this House resolves as follows: (Laughter) 11th March 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 11 Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I have asked the Leader of the Minority Party to second but Hon. Katana is distracting him. Before Hon. Junet walked in, he was in a meeting with Members of his coalition in his office, and Hon. Wamboka was seated in his place....

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise on behalf of the Chairperson of the Liaison Committee, the Deputy Speaker who has stepped out to have a sitting on the Supplementary Appropriations. I wish Hon. Omboko had raised this matter before the process moved that far. (Several...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I hope I will be speaking to those who are interested in the business of the House. Hon. Speaker, what you have said is true. The business of this House is the business of the people who gave us the greatest...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, allow me to do that when we resume from the short recess.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, allow me to move this amendment on behalf of Hon. Irene Mayaka, who went for the Kisii Consultative Meeting with the former Prime Minister. Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 8 of the Bill be amended in subclause (2)...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I do not want to buttress what the Leader of the Minority Party has said. Under the current dispensation and in line with our Standing Orders, it is true that both parliamentary and non-parliamentary parties are represented in the Committee on...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg your indulgence before we move to the next Order, which is the Committee of the whole House. As I indicated in the usual Thursday Statement on the business for next week, one of the Bills we are considering is the Public...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) The Member for Murang’a has taken over the seat of the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party, and the Member for Laikipia is in the Whip of the Majority Party seat. I am used to sitting with gentlemen here, but the two gracious ladies have...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, at times you run into problems when you sit next to Members who are very engaging like the Members for Murang’a and Laikipia.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give the following Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee, which met on Wednesday, 5th March 2025, to prioritise business for consideration during the week. As Members are...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) In two weeks.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) I will do that, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, House resolutions are in writing and are given to the National Treasury upon approval. When they receive them, they should start to count the days up to 31st May and 31st July for actualisation of the TSA. If they do not, they...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, the Member for Kajiado North Constituency is my very good friend who served as a Member of the County Assembly of Kajiado. He has clearly read out the Standing Orders. I will choose to ignore the invocation of my name, which is now...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your indulgence. The Deputy Speaker is saying I never have a card. I usually have one but I lost it in the crowd that was here. I do not know who took it. 5th March 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. (Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose spoke off the record) Hon. Pukose says Hon. Kangogo is very mobile today. I do not know whether there are cows that have disappeared somewhere in Marakwet East. I was saying that during the last Parliament,...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is not up to me to say what will happen to them. But if the appointing authority has publicly pronounced himself...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you. I rise to second. As the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party has said, these nominees enable all the 100 constituency NG-CDF Committees to start functioning after approval by the House, as is required by the law. I beg to second. (Several Members...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) I will do that.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. With your indulgence, I would like to clarify a matter concerning the document tabled here in the form of a letter from the national Treasury. Members may have noticed an error reported in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS) sent to the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) I wish to draw her attention to this because it is important for her to understand the basis of the letter we received from the National Treasury. It addresses a correction of an error in the BPS submitted to us. The Departmental Committee on Finance...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I agree with you that Hon. Ruku is completely out of order. He seems to be requesting for a Statement under the disguise of other things. First, Hon. Ruku has not filed any Question or request for a Statement for the Cabinet Secretary...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, with your indulgence, I am being told to repeat. If a cabinet secretary of the national Government is not a Member of the county executive committee (CEC) , particularly this one who has a letter dated 25th February, has an invitation from the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, the issue raised by Hon. Kangogo Bowen is quite important. To directly answer Hon. Bowen, the Senate’s role in the 27th February 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 10 Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA)BPS is restricted to only one Ministry, the National Treasury and Economic...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Most obliged. I will make sure we get a Statement from the Kenya National Examinations Council and the Ministry of Education because as you rightly say, students have already paid for the exams. Most of those in private schools, as you...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes, they are also criminal acts under the National Environment Management Act and criminal acts touching on economic crimes. They dumped garbage and sewer deliberately on a road. They spent public resources to dump and later clean-up, which is an abuse of public funds.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I heard what Hon. Jack Wamboka raised. I agree, to an extent, with the response by Hon. Omboko. For Hon. Wamboka’s benefit, this is not the first time the Speaker has directed that the budget process, whether it is the BPS...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to inform the House and jog your memories a bit. You know we have come from a very long recess. Last year, we published the County Additional Allocations Bill for Financial Year 2024/2025. The Bill went to the Senate...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) I am not asking Members of Parliament; I am asking Kenyans. They can tell us which governors are constructing any roads anywhere. If anything, the roads are maintained by KeRRA and then governors duplicate the same projects so that they loot from public coffers. We...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also join Hon. Junet Mohamed, the Leader of the Minority Party, to condemn that act by the County Government of Nairobi. I ask the County Government of Nairobi and Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) to get into a negotiation...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Therefore, we should not allow this kind of behaviour to go unchecked. These are the same governors who sometime back, were asking to be given some security officers under their command. You can imagine if these governors had policemen under their command, they would trample...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Precisely. You narrated that story at another forum—the House Business Committee. It is indeed true that one of the most abused cultural practices of Kenya is the Maasai culture. You can imagine Nigerians pretending to be Maasais in London. It is, therefore, important to have...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, let me commend the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Health and all the Members of the Committee for the excellent work they did following your instructions in Naivasha. Indeed, the Committee and the Ministry officials have gone to great...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, let me talk to the Chair— because I have not seen him today—to see whether we can bring it on Thursday.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, it disadvantages very many people, especially professionals like teachers, who work in those areas. I also have the same issue in my constituency. I told the Chair that in my constituency, there is one sub-location within the same location, which is a hardship...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In replying, allow me to thank all the Members. You and I were away on Thursday afternoon, but I watched online as this Bill was debated. We must thank the Parliamentary Service Commission for 25th February 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 20...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) When you register your cultural practices—for instance, the Maa Community registering their Maasai dances and cultural practices—and anybody uses them, they have to pay for them. Otherwise, you have seen the brand and property rights of things like the Kikoi that were made largely by...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Yes, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much. On behalf of the Member for Kilifi North and the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Owen Baya, who has just stepped out to prepare for the funeral of Speaker Kingi’s father in Kilifi, let me...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to join you in condoling with the families of the late Hon. Cheptumo and the late Hon. Malulu Injendi. I happen to have joined this House at the same time as the two Members in the 11th Parliament. I...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Cheptumo served as a Member and later as Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation with a lot of diligence. For those who were with us in the 12th Parliament, considering the numerous regulations for approval in the House, we...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: RECALLING THAT, the African Union (AU) , the successor of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) , was launched in 2002 as a continental body consisting of the 55 member-states that make up the countries of...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) If we do not, he will make it a habit. Tomorrow, he will make all manner of allegations against any one of us here or the President. They have made it a sport to move around the country in funerals insulting the President. I hear...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 171 (1) (f) , this House approves the appointment of the following Members to the House Business Committee in addition to those specified under paragraphs (a) , (b)...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Hon. Speaker, as Hon. Members may be aware, this is a very critical Committee. The other Members of the Committee sit there by virtue of their offices. With those few remarks, I beg to move and request Hon. Adan Keynan to second.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. In replying, the House Business Committee is properly and duly constituted, with or without the participation of the four Members of the Azimio Coalition, and it will sit. Hon. Speaker, as the Chairman of the House Business Committee, you will advise...