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Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, this House resolves to exempt the business appearing as Order Numbers 11 and 12 (ii) in today’s Order Paper from the provisions of Standing Order 40 (3) , being a Wednesday Morning,...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I will inform the Chairperson.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank the Leader of the Minority Party for moving with passion the adoption of this Report. Notably, during the interview, he was really impressed by these two ladies. Hon. Speaker, I second this Motion very strongly that...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I want to vehemently, oppose this Petition. In the Constitution, life is described as sacred. It should be preserved. It is illegal to take away one’s life same as another’s. Why would you want to jail someone for taking or attempting to...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. This is a very important discussion because many students have despaired. They will neither fill these forms nor work on it. The initial forms they received scared them off university places. I know there was a circular by...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North UDA) Hon. Speaker, I have heard Hon. Susan say that 80 per cent of the Cabinet has no competence or competencies or whatever. Then she comes and tells us that we are being selfish because we did not nominate the youth – the youth who,...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move that the Committee do report its consideration of the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 38 of 2024) , and its approval thereof without amendments. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to) (The House...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that this House do agree with the Committee in the said Report. I request Hon. Junet Mohamed to second.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2024) be now read a Third Time. Hon. Speaker, this is a very important piece of legislation that is awaited to ensure that we enable the...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The office of a cabinet secretary is a high office. Any person that this House approves to sit as a cabinet secretary must rise above board. They must rise above politics and all other prejudices that they have to serve...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) It is not Hon. Alice Ng’ang’a.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Is it the Chairperson of the Committee on Regional Integration?

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) It is Hon. Alice.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North) Much obliged, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North (UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 28 (4) , this House resolves to further alter its Calendar as adopted on 14th February 2024 and amended on 25th and 26th June 2024, so as...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, instead of all this, why can you not order that the NG-CDF CEO to appear before this House and clarify this matter. Those are some of the people who sleep on their job and pass the buck. They kick the can...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much. Our Standing Orders are clear that not even a written newspaper can be admissible as evidence in this House. When we go on a trajectory of hearsay information while discussing the high office of a Head of Public Service, it...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I come from a priestly lineage. The Bible is very clear that forgiveness is divine. If forgiveness is divine, and upon seeking it, we are obliged to forgive. Dostoevsky in Crime and Punishment says that sometimes punishment may not be the execution...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) It is very true that the Budget has money for political parties. The money comes from a source which is the Finance Bill, 2024. I am still within my limits of speech. We have a budget that we must finance to ensure resources, services...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Much obliged.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Much obliged.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House resolves to exempt the business appearing as Order No. 12 in today’s Order Paper from the provisions of Standing Order 40 (3) , being a Wednesday Morning, a day allocated for business not sponsored...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I beg to move and request Hon. Osoro to second. You can only say “I second” if you want.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Speaking on the Finance Bill on the heels of my counterpart from the Minority Party is interesting. I tried to get something from what Hon. Mbui said that was useful on the Finance Bill, but I could not...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. I am happy with this debate and the information that is coming out. I rise under Standing Order 9. I would like my friend, the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party, to substantiate his remarks. He said...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Okay.

Hon. Owen Baya No, Hon. Deputy Speaker!

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon Deputy Speaker. Issues and matters of children are very delicate and complicated. Therefore, they must be handled that way. When we bring many pieces of legislation on matters children, we continue to expound the problems that bedevil them. That...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You know I also serve as a Chairman of Minority Groups. Through your guidance, my advice is that you select an Ad Hoc Committee of Parliament consisting of Members from those areas so that they can sit and find an...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Legal Notice No.96 of 2024 relating to the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (General) Regulations, 2023, including the Explanatory Memorandum, Executive Summary and Synopsis of Stakeholders Engagement from the Independent Policing Oversight Authority...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. The Member for Kericho asked me when I completed my university education. I told her that I finished in 1996. She thinks that was when Hon. Martin Owino was in Kindergarten. (Laughter)

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to contribute to this. I graduated from Kenyatta University in 1996 with my first degree and with a master’s degree in 2007, but do I say! I used to see Hon. Rachael Nyamai. She was a pretty...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much. I am one of the proponents of this Fund because it is one of the very important Funds in the Constitution. The Constitution is very clear. It talks about how funds should be given to county governments, the national Government,...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) How do you contradict your party leader? (Laughter)