Mathenge Duncan Maina

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee recommending that we regulate social media platforms, including TikTok. I would like to correct the impression that may have been created by previous speakers on the Floor of this House who referred to banning TikTok. Nowhere...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113 (2) of the Constitution and Standing Order 150 (3) , this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Coffee Bill, (Senate Bill No. 10 of 2023) , laid on...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following paper on the Table: Report of the Mediation Committee on the Coffee Bill (Senate Bill No.10 of

Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Article 113 (2) of the Constitution and Standing Order 150 (3) , this House adopts the Report of the Mediation Committee on the Coffee Bill (Senate Bill No. 10 of 2023) , laid...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I may be a bit disadvantaged because both Hon. (Dr) Oundo, yourself and Hon. Marianne, the Vice-Chairperson who has moved this Committee Report, are more senior Members. However, I am sure that, as a member of the Committee, once I am aware that the Committee...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The debate in our country now, is on the affordability of healthcare, ability of Government agencies in the healthcare sectors like the Social Health Authority (SHA) and the Social Health Insurance Fund (SHIF) to pay for health services, and the cost of healthcare....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Health and I support this Bill, but I have some reservations. This Bill does not go far enough in dealing with the issues surrounding maternal and newborn health. As we debate here today, there is a...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I have heard the Cabinet Secretary say that they have not had funds for infrastructure, but this year, they got some money. The Ministry is running a program known as the Expansion of Infrastructure under the Secondary School Education Equity and Quality Improvement Programme. I...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to pose one question to the Cabinet Secretary on free and compulsory basic education. Is he aware that the school feeding programme has become a barrier to the achievement and delivery of free and compulsory basic education in this country? If he is...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What is it? What is your position? Are you asking a follow-up question, Hon. Mathenge? Or is it a point of order? Are you not satisfied with the answer? Hon. Temporary Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary has to be very categorical on this...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I support the Report by this Committee. It is sad that some of the institutions that we see being audited here include the National Syndemic Diseases Control Council that is responsible for the affairs of Kenyans suffering from HIV and AIDS. I notice that in...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Jane Kagiri. Besides being the Member for Nyeri Town Constituency, I am also the Chairman of the Parliamentary Coffee Caucus. Coffee is one of the key export earners in this country. It supports a...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to add my voice by saying pole to the families that lost their loved ones because of the demonstrations yesterday. Yesterday was a sad day for Nyeri. This nation must have its leadership and citizens rising up to the occasion to save this country....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Budget. However, I must dissuade some of the Members of this august House from deciding that because I come from Mt Kenya region now, I am guilty of what my forefathers did. At the time of Independence when the...

Hon. Speaker, the Cabinet Secretary is treading on dangerous grounds. He has asserted that the TSC is an independent Commission. It is not under the direction of anybody, including the Ministry. Yet, he has answered Questions that are under the mandate of the TSC. Therefore, it is important that this...