Silas Kipkoech Tiren

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)Thank you,

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: June 2, 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 14 Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)Report of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock on its consideration of the...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for the opportunity to pursue the amendment. I beg to move: THAT, Clause 46 of the Bill be deleted and substituted therefor with the following new clause— Coffee trading. Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I beg to move: THAT,...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Hon. Sankok is a problem in this Bill. I hope he is supporting it now. I thank him. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, Clause 58 of the Bill be amended by— April 13, 2022 NATIONAL...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

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Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I had clearly explained, for it to be more punitive. Maybe you were not concentrating. I said in the justification, the proposed general penalty had provided for offences for both the individual and the body corporate. Further, the penalty was not punitive. It is very...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move for the Second Time that Clause 6 of the Bill be amended by inserting the following new paragraphs immediately after paragraph as it is on the Order Paper. The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : Hon....

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

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Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have got it. It should be, “warehouseperson” and not “warehousemen”. It should be open to both genders. So, we should amend it to cover both. I further amend it and it has been supported by a Member. The...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you Hon. Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after Clause 35— 35A. (1) The holder of a licence or permit which is revoked shall immediately surrender it to the Board. Hon. Silas...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I did not get the question. The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : Hon. Dawood you may repeat it.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Member for that point. However, earlier we had also said that when you are doing an agreement, it should be in tandem with what is in the regulations and also with the Board so that we do not have people just doing...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) It is something we deliberated at length. You need to really appreciate how coffee processing is done. It is something we deliberated on seriously because the process of dealing with coffee is very long. There are percentages that are removed at each process. That is...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after New Clause 54B— No lending by millers and marketing agents. 54C. (1) A coffee miller and a marketing agent shall not lend to farmers on interest.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) What we had actually suggested, if I may go back to when we discussed in Committee, is that for them to lend to farmers, it has to be approved by the Board. They should not be allowed to lend to farmers unless it has been...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after Clause 87— April 13, 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 55 Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)Conflict of laws. 87A. If any conflict arises between...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Let me just repeat it. Maybe, I made a mistake. In New Clause 91A, the Bill had not made a provision for a number of important offences which would have had the effect… The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : Chair, you are absolutely...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP)

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting the Second Schedule and substituting therefor the following new Schedule— SECOND SCHEDULE (s. 11, s. 23, s. 26, s. 26A, s.27, s. 28, s. 32, s.67) LICENCE, PERMIT OR CERTIFICATE Issuing Authority April 13,...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee on the said report. I request Hon. Nangabo to second. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : Hon. Nangabo. Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I also...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move that the Coffee Bill (Senate Bill No. 22 of 2020) be now read a Third Time. I request Hon. Abdikhaim Osman to second.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was caught unaware. My request is on the issue of coffee amendments. We signed them yesterday and we are not ready. I am requesting for deferment until next week.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Yes, Hon. Speaker. We signed it yesterday and I am surprised that it is on the Order Paper. March 31, 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 25

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Hon. Speaker, ours stands because it touches on very sensitive issues. Were you asking me to withdraw it?

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Yes March 29, 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 33

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following after the words “Order Paper” in sub-paragraph (v) : “Subject to – a) deletion of the words “Reduce Ksh. 1 billion (Development) from Livestock Export Zone-Lamu” appearing on...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Yes.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. There was some delay because we were waiting for some reports from the Attorney- General that we have just received. We also had some delay from the Ministry as we were supposed to meet the CS on Tuesday, but he did...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Next week.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. We will do that as we have already received the report from the Attorney-General.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker and I want to be on record, because the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has clearly stated that they took recommendations from the committees. I want to talk about the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, which we gave our recommendation...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Hon. Speaker, just allow me…

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Hon. Speaker, can I just add something that is burning?

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you I am not going to the debate. I want to talk about the Supplementary Estimates and the addendum. My interest is that when we were given, as the committee, to do the Supplementary Estimates, an addendum was brought later. So, what would be...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) No. It is hard now to be cool.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Farmers are on my case, and they want to kill me. So, they rather kill the right people who are denying them money and not me. The people who are denying them money should come out on record and state that they do not care...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. You were interrupted on many occasions. I will continue from where I reached. In Nandi, Kericho and Bungoma counties, the Committee conducted public hearings and received submissions from the following stakeholders: i) The National Coffee Cooperative Union Limited (NACCU) . ii)...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I thank Members for what they have done in supporting the Bill. We are going to make sure that the sentiments the Members have added are incorporated so that we move together. Nonetheless, I...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I wanted to provoke you under Standing Order No.95. Looking at the mood of the House, you can call upon the Mover to reply. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Christopher Omulele) : Very well. I will deal with that...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity. I beg to move that The Coffee Bill 2020 (Senate Bill No. 22 of 2020) be now read a Second Time. By way of introduction, the Coffee Bill 2020 (Senate Bill No. 22 of 2020) sponsored...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you very much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. First and foremost, I would like to thank my brother and the Member of Parliament for Nandi Hills, Hon. Keter, for the Question he has raised today. Also, I want to mention that it had been raised by...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I have not finished. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Like I said earlier, let us treat this thing of fertiliser…

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Let me proceed from there. I also wanted to add that we had talked to the Ministry and the information they gave us is that they had requested for about Kshs15 billion to be used to sort out the issue...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Please, protect me, Hon. Deputy Speaker, so that I can proceed. February 23, 2022 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 12

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank you. Please, I am normally very patient when people are talking. I have just said that in the Committee, we put Kshs1.4 billion to subsidise fertiliser for farmers as we await the Cabinet to make decisions because we had requested for Kshs15 billion. What...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Yes.

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) I just wanted to add what the Committee did the Supplementary Budget and we put in Kshs1.4 billion for fertiliser subsidy as we wait for Cabinet to make a decision. We also received an addendum from the Treasury and I think we are going to...

Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Coffee Bill, 2020 (Senate Bill No.22 of 2020) be now read a Second time. Can I proceed? The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.) Soipan Tuya) : Yes, Hon. Chair. Hon. Silas Tiren (Moiben, JP) Thank...