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Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Chairlady, Hon. Oundo, the Professor, needs to be educated on how a Bill starts. It is the Office that is mandated to liaise with Parliament. The Bill bears the name of the Leader of the Majority Party. The only mandate of the Leader...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following procedural Motion: 10th June 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 13 Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA)THAT, pursuant to Standing Order 30(3) (a), this House orders that, should the time appointed for adjournment of the House be reached...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I want to respond to the Member for Kwanza and contribute to the general debate. The Committee of Supply has three documents: The first document is what we can see here; the second document is the Second Schedule. Then, there is the Third Schedule....

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Chairman, the current IPOA is a new one. Hardly six months in office. I look forward to them discharging their duties better than the previous one. The previous one just sat and did nothing. We have a new Authority, which this House...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) A little bit, Hon. Temporary Chairman. This is the last Vote we are doing. I want to thank you for a good job. On this Vote for the Senate, I want to say this, and I want the Senators to listen to me as...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. A budget is either a tool of equalising or marginalising a country. That is a key principle when it comes to national budgets. You can use a budget to marginalise certain areas and boost others. However, you...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) We need to move many Government programmes to the private sector. That will ensure growth. Everybody today wants to join the Government because you can afford to be lazy. You may skip work, do other things and still get a salary. The private sector...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. A budget is either a tool of equalising or marginalising a country. That is a key principle when it comes to national budgets. You can use a budget to marginalise certain areas and boost others. However, you...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) We need to move many Government programmes to the private sector. That will ensure growth. Everybody today wants to join the Government because you can afford to be lazy. You may skip work, do other things and still get a salary. The private sector...

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 Papers on the Table:

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

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, looking at the mood of the House, I request that the Mover be called upon to reply.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Everybody is supporting the Bill along the same lines. Therefore, it is okay for the Mover to be called to reply so that we can close debate on this Bill.

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

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Alright. Probably we could do two weeks on the same. I will let them know.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will inform him to bring the Statement in the next two weeks. Much obliged.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will inform Hon. GK, the Member for Ndia who is the Chairperson. So, that he can bring a response in two weeks’ time. Thank you.

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 heard the honourable teacher say that they perished and are recuperating in the hospital. How does someone who has perished be in a hospital recovering?

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I found that statement very interesting. I do not know whether he needs to buy spectacles.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to say that the issues of fire in Nairobi City County are just too many. The County Government of Nairobi, knowing that management of fires and fire brigades are devolved, should be proactive. First, they should...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I thought I saw Hon. Mutunga here.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to support my brother, Hon. Bowen, who crafted his name from mine. 3rd June 2025 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 37 Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA)Anything to do with fisheries touches on the Coast. The coast of...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Kangogo was not in the 11th Parliament that passed the Fisheries Management Act. (Hon. Kangogo Bowen spoke off the record) Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Okay, you were here. The law banned the use of monofilament nets yet people have used them...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move that the Political Parties (Amendment) (No.2) Bill (Senate Bill No. 26 of 2024) be now read a Second Time. By way of introduction, the Bill seeks to amend the Political Parties Act 2011. As I set off,...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, you cannot allow a point of order because I am moving the Bill. We want those parties, even if it is a village party with only three Members of the County Assembly in that village, to account for every cent they receive....

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Alright. Probably we could do two weeks on the same. I will let them know.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will inform him to bring the Statement in the next two weeks. Much obliged.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I will inform Hon. GK, the Member for Ndia who is the Chairperson. So, that he can bring a response in two weeks’ time. Thank you.

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 heard the honourable teacher say that they perished and are recuperating in the hospital. How does someone who has perished be in a hospital recovering?

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I found that statement very interesting. I do not know whether he needs to buy spectacles.

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to say that the issues of fire in Nairobi City County are just too many. The County Government of Nairobi, knowing that management of fires and fire brigades are devolved, should be proactive. First, they should...

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) I thought I saw Hon. Mutunga here.

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

Hon. Owen Baya (Kilifi North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to eulogise the late Ngugi wa Thiong'o. I am a student of literature, and I have taught literature at different levels. I remember the late Ngugi wa Thiong'o as a pioneer of the African...