Ichung’wah Antony Kimani

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Maybe, just to correct Hon. Opiyo Wandayi, the people demonstrating yesterday over the Chinese issues are not on things being manufactured in Kenya. It is unfair trade practices by Chinese business people who have denied Kenyans access to the Chinese market but we allowed the Chinese...

He wants to defend those media houses.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I understand that the Leader of the Minority Party has to defend the ownership of that particular media house by virtue of the fact that the owner is the outgoing chairman of the Azimio council of elders or something like that but truth be told; if...

Hon. Temporary Chairperson, for the benefit of Hon. Nzengu and other members of the Departmental Committee on Blue Economy and Irrigation, this is a matter that has been raised by the leader of the Committee. We were inducted on Committee business just the other day. I do not think the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to contribute. This is not just a matter of faith, but one that touches on our national morals, values and culture as a people. From the outset, I want to state that I am a Presbyterian. I heard the Member for Funyula...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was saying that if there is anything that I support President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni for, it is the issue of LGBTQIA+. I will not go to the extreme way of dealing with them but we must be forthright as a nation to protect our...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First, apologise to the House. My apologies. We had a bit of consultation with the Whip. Which you should always do before time. As you can see it was necessary for the Whip to whip our Members. Okay. Order No.5. Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me, as I congratulate Hon. Babu for the good performance, and also correct him. What he was describing is called bottom-up economic model and not trickle-down. I know he has a problem with bottom-up. I want to encourage him because he is now doing what...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah is on a point of order. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you know I have tremendous respect for Hon. John Mbadi, and he knows that statements of fact are a prerequisite in our Standing Orders. We are debating this Report by...

Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: Legal Notice No. 2 of 2023 relating to Energy (Revocation) Regulations 2023, from the Ministry of Energy and Petroleum; Legal Notice No. 3 of 2023 relating to the Petroleum (Importation) Regulations 2023, from the Ministry...

Mtaona tu. Ulizeni Mhe. Babu kwa sababu anawajua! (Laughter)

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I rise under Standing Order 44 (2) (a) to make a Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee which met on Tuesday, 21st February 2023, to prioritise the business for consideration during the week. As Members are aware, yesterday Wednesday, 22nd February 2023, the House commenced...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of the Standing Orders 175 (3) and 212B Committee on Members’ Services and Facilities: Committee on Powers and Privileges that is on Order No.11. The term of these two sessional With those many remarks, I...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, besides being irrelevant, Hon. Junet Mohamed is grossly misleading the country. He knows he is on live national television. He is talking about the Leader of the Majority Party sitting in meetings. He knows that the only meetings I sit in are the House Business Committee on...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Section 15 (1) (a) (ii) of the Parliamentary Powers and Privileges Act, 2017 and Standing Order 175 (3) , this House approves the appointment of the following Members to the Powers and Privileges Committee,...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, further to the resolutions of the House of Thursday, 27th October 2022 and Wednesday, 9th November 2022 appointing Members to various Committees; and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 173, this House further approves the appointment of the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. It is good that the Minority Whip has raised that very pertinent issue regarding the Committees of this House, including the Committee on Selection that I Chair. This is the only Committee that I Chair and sit in other than the House Business Committee (HBC)...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following papers on the Table: NOTICE OF MOTION DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL POLICY

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I was just restraining myself from speaking about schools, but let me also take this opportunity to welcome the indomitable Kabare Girls High School and also the boys’ school. There has been a lot of accolades to the girls from Kabare Girls High School, but...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to support this Petition by Ms. Cherono. The scheme, as envisaged, was to benefit our students. Some of them are seated in the Speaker’s Gallery and Public Gallery. If this system is unable to identify students when they visit public hospitals, it is...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: Information on Programmes Outputs, Performance Indicators and Targets for the FY 2023/2024 and the Medium-Term Strategy from the National Treasury and Economic Planning. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the...

Hon. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to give a Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee which met on Tuesday, 14th February 2023 to prioritise business for consideration during the week. Hon. Speaker, allow me to once again welcome Members...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, noting the contents of the memorandum submitted to Parliament by His Excellency the President asking Parliament to consider initiating amendments to the Constitution; acknowledging that actualisation of the proposals which relate to, inter alia, the composition of...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I take this opportunity to thank Hon. Nyikal. We are a House of procedures and precedence. It is, indeed, true that with respect to any Motion other than those sponsored by individual Members, we ought to seek leave of the House. My apologies for that...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, you know I have a lot of respect for Dr. Nyikal. He knows his famous definition of the word “Government”. Therefore, I do not like to rattle the “Government” and Hon. Nyikal knows what I mean. However, Hon. Nyikal is completely out of order because he does...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I hope that our good friends, the new Members of Parliament, are learning from experienced legislators like Dr. Nyikal because there are many ways of skinning a cat. You could see that his sole intention was not to have this continue. It is only fair that we...

I was saying that this proposal will enrich and deepen our democracy, and make the structures of the governance of our country only stronger. I know there are those who would want us to imagine that we need to go into a referendum and therefore the push to go back...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: A Notification of Presidential Action on the Recognition of the Pemba Community as an Ethnic Community of Kenya. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the year ended 30th June 2021...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on any Sessional Paper shall be limited as follows:- A maximum of two-and-a-half hours, with not more than twenty (20)...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in debate on Reports of Constitutional Commissions and Independent Offices be limited as follows: – A maximum of four hours with not more...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on Budget Estimates contemplated under Standing Orders 239 and

Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for your indulgence. I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) and notwithstanding the resolution of the House made on Wednesday, 15th February 2023 during the morning sitting relating to limitation of debate on Motions, this...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 28, this House approves the Calendar of the National Assembly (Regular Sessions) for the Second Session (2023) as contained in the Schedule to the Order Paper. I am doing this on...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, taking into consideration the recommendations of the Parliamentary Service Commission in its Report on Recruitment of the Parliamentary Service Commissioner who is not a Member of Parliament, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 14th February 2023, and...

On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. What is your point of order, Leader of the Majority Party? Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I have tremendous respect for the Leader of the Minority Party. I rise under Standing Order 87 (4) , which states that no Member shall impute...

Even without naming them, the Hon. Members are already naming them. I want to dissuade Hon. Members from discussing our officers on the basis of their ethnicity. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is only fair that Hon. Opiyo Wandayi sticks to the facts. I do not want him to name officers,...

Hon. Speaker, as you alluded to earlier, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: Report of the Parliamentary Service Commission on Recruitment of a Male Report of the Auditor-General and financial Statements for the National

Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion, on behalf of the Parliamentary Service Commission. THAT, taking onto consideration the recommendation of the Parliamentary Service Commission in its Report on the recruitment of the Parliamentary Service Commissioner who is not a Member of Parliament, laid on the...

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) , (c) , (d) and accommodate these two Members into Committees of the House...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for your indulgence. Let me join the great people of Kiambaa Constituency in Kiambu County and our nation at large in condoling with the family of the late Hon. Stanley Munga Githunguri. It is indeed true that the late Hon. Stanley Munga Githunguri was a...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the passage of these Regulations and thank the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation for the work they put in within a very short time to ensure that these Regulations are considered by the House. As the Chairperson has said, these Regulations...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to second. The County Governments Additional Allocations (No. 2) Bill (Senate Bill No.4 of

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The business listed as Order No.13 on the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.42 of 2022) is listed for second hearing today. Sorry, Second Reading. I am surrounded by too many lawyers that I am getting accustomed to hearings instead...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am sorry the Leader of the Minority Party thought I wanted to interrupt him. I wanted to inform him. The Leader of the Minority Party is a ranking Member of the House Business Committee, which sits every Tuesday. We, indeed, had a meeting this...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Pursuant to provisions of Standing order 44 (2) (a) , I rise to issue a Statement on behalf of the House Business Committee, which met on Tuesday, 29th November 2022 to prioritise business. As Members are aware, the House is scheduled to proceed for a long...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I think the Leader of Minority is within his rights to make such a request, but I want to, vehemently, oppose it. Hon. Speaker, as I indicated in my Statement, all Members put a lot of time in their respective committees vetting the Principal Secretary nominees....

Hon. Speaker, before we move to the next Order, we are well guided by your directive on the point of order raised by Hon. Junet. I am told that those in the legal profession say that if you seek equity, you must do so with clean hands. This being a...

Hon. Speaker, as I move this Procedural Motion, allow me to also join you in commending the team of Senior Counsels and our very good lawyers who have represented us. For the record, it is important to mention that Senior Counsel, Hon. Otiende Amollo, and other lawyers are not representing...

Hon. Speaker, I beg your indulgence because this is the last Motion in the approval process for Principal Secretaries. Members are aware this process has been very rigorous for many people who had spent a lot of time in committees. I can hear Hon. Pukose from behind me say many...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg Members’ indulgence on this matter because this follows a petition by members of the public. Even as I rise to support, in a very special manner, allow me to thank the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for the good work that they...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 42 of 2022) be now read a Second Time. Hon. Speaker, the principal object of this very short two-clause Bill is to amend the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) Act...

Thank you Hon. Speaker. I beg to reply. I want to thank the many Members that have contributed for appreciating the need to have a panel that is balanced, that represents all shades of opinion, those who have been nominated by the Parliamentary Service Commission, Public Service Commission, those that...

Hon. Chairperson, I beg to move that the Committee do report to the House its consideration of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.49 of 2022) and its approval thereof without amendments. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to) (The House resumed) [The Speaker (Hon....

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee in the said Report. I also request Hon. Njeri to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House.

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 42 of 2022) be now read a Third Time. I also request Hon. Makilap to second.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker for your indulgence. I want to take this opportunity to profoundly thank all these Members who sat from (Applause) Thank you very much, Members, for your sacrifice and time.(Applause)

Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker. I just protected you from the Hon. Member for Emgwen, Josses Lelmengit. Hon. Josses is my very good student. He usually seeks to understand what is the next business and why you had to rearrange business. I was just trying to explain to him. Hon....

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Since I did not get a chance to contribute on the other one, let me also take this opportunity to appreciate the delegation from Baringo County Assembly led by their Leader of the Majority Party, Hon. Tallam, and their Whip, Hon. Kibet, whom I worked with...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your indulgence. The Deputy Whip of the Majority Party was well-briefed and was ready to move the Sessional Paper.

Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was following up on some papers that we were waiting for. With your indulgence, I beg to lay the following papers on the Table:

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to second this Sessional Paper No. 2 of 2021 on the National Agricultural Policy. As has been clearly articulated by the Deputy Whip of the Majority Party, Hon. Naomi Waqo, this policy speaks to one of the key areas of our economy -...