Baya Owen Yaa

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to condole with the people of Kesses. My brother and friend, we say pole for the loss of Dr Misoi. I did not share time with Dr Misoi in the Chamber, but I knew a few things about him as a young...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Yes, Deputy Leader of the Majority Party. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to commend you especially on the first issue of Private Members’ Bills. More often, Members prepare Bills and send them to Committees and they journey for four years as the...

Hon. Speaker, today, we do not have Papers.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I do not want to be seen as being part of the Executive. However, it is important for Members to know that immediately the budget and the Finance Bill are passed, IFMIS will need time to load the new budget. So, the new budget will take some...

Waziri, I want to thank you very sincerely for taking your time to prepare adequately and enunciating Government policy very well. On behalf of the leadership of this House, we want to say ahsante sana. You forgot to sit. You stood throughout the three hours. That chair is meant for...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, with the absence of many Members who are supposed to move these Motions, I would request that we stand down the businesses ahead of us. I do not want to raise issues of Quorum. I just want us to stand down the remaining businesses of the day....

I request that we stand down that too to next time.

(Motion deferred)Hon. Temporary Speaker, I suggest that we defer this Order until next time.

(Motion deferred)Hon. Temporary Speaker, I request that we defer this to the next available day.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I propose that we defer these Bills to the next available date. Thank you.

(Motion deferred)I suggest that we defer the Motion to the next available date, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

(Bill deferred)In the absence of the Member, I suggest, on his behalf, that we defer the Bill to the next available date. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table: QUESTIONS AND STATEMENTS

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to join my friend Hon. Bady Twalib, De Mabior, Fula Ngenge, Kijana Mwepesi on his Petition. 4th July 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 2 The people of Jomvu have suffered especially on compensation for land which they rightfully own as other people are compensated....

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House:

Hon. Speaker, I beg to present a Public Petition on delayed adjudication and settlement of residents of Misufini, Vibandani and Kibarani sub- locations, Tezo Location, Kilifi North Constituency. Before I do that, I would like to recognise the delegation from Kilifi which is visiting Parliament and I wish them fruitful...

Thank you very much. On behalf of the Mover of the Motion… 29th June 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 37 Order! There are two Members standing. Hon. Baya, you may continue. Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker. These Regulations as tabled are important because they will give our peacekeepers an opportunity to...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I thank the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for considering the aggregation centres and allocating them Ksh250 million and also fertiliser. For the first time, Kilifi County and other coastal counties have money for fertiliser. I also note that it is only the...

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the Appropriations Bill. In supporting it, when I was in the Opposition with my brother, Hon. Mbadi, we used to be very critical of Article 223 of the Constitution and why it should not be used by governments. We always...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is out of order? Hon. Mbadi, please take your seat. There is a point of order. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The distinguished leader, Hon. John Mbadi, is the Chairperson of PAC. It behoves on him to bring a report to...

On a point of order.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I would like to implore among us as Members… We have the Finance Bill that starts in the afternoon but we have two very important Bills that have timelines. The County Allocation Bill and the Appropriation Bill. We have to manage these between now and 1 O’clock....

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Owen Baya. Hon. Temporary Speaker, in the spirit that we get more people to contribute to this Bill, and the fact that we are almost coming to the end of this Sitting, I propose that we do four minutes or three...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table:

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This Procedural Motion gives us time to debate the Finance Bill conclusively. Therefore, I second and ask Members to support it. Thank you. (Question proposed)

Hon. Speaker, as we come away from the entertainment by Hon. Donya, we would now like to get to serious business. When I was a teacher, I used to teach the Systems Theory. When you look at it, you needed to look at the input and output.

Thank you very much. You need to start paying digital content tax for your new job. (Laughter) 14th June 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 12 Chinese contractors have built roads with imported cement and yet, this country has the capacity to produce cement, employ many people, and use the local people...