Passaris Esther Muthoni

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to speak. I send condolences to the family of Hon. Beatrice Nkatha Nyaga from my myself, family and Nairobi City County. It is, indeed, a sad moment when you hear that somebody you knew has passed on. With the nature...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the debate on issues of financial mismanagement at Moi University. I believe we have a problem with remittances of all deductions in payrolls. National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) was literally strangled because remittances were deducted from employees,...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, as a Member of the Departmental Committee on Lands, I congratulate Hon. Oundo for moving the Land Control Bill, 2023. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise under Standing Order 35 to bring to your attention the fact that the House has no quorum. We do...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Report of the Committee on Delegated Legislation on the inquiry into irregular and illegal grounds of tax exemption to a company under SOFA. I have looked at the Report and heard the sentiments of Members. Tax...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Community Health Workers Bill that has been brought by Hon. Martin Owino. First, I congratulate him for taking the bull by its horns and realising that CHPs provide that service, but it has not been well structured. We...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Motion on the consideration of the Senate Amendments to the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.38 of 2024) , that was brought by the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee. When he...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Senate amendments to the Food and Feed Safety Control Coordination Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.21 of 2023) . We are what we eat. Are we eating to live or to die? If we do not address...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Since Independence, this country has been managing the agriculture sector through cooperatives with the aim of coordinating production, processing and exporting the produce. In the past, people used to send their children to school without problems because they made a lot of money. The gold...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion on policy and funding for sugarcane farming in the country brought by Hon. Peter Nabulindo. Hon. Temporary Speaker, we looked at the tea industry and, as our Deputy Speaker rightly said, it is agriculture as a whole....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that Article 43 (1) as read together with the Article 53 (1) (b) of the Constitution provides that every person has the right to education and enshrines the right of every child to free and compulsory basic education;...

One more minute! It is being brought. Sorry, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for your indulgence. I apologise. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, aware that Article 43 (1) as read together with Article 53 (1) (b) of the Constitution provides that every person has the right to education and enshrines...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I commend Hon. Mishi Mboko for coming up with this Motion to discuss mental health and how we can put up facilities in all our health centres to deal with it. I know that there are many civil...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am talking about all these conditions that I have endured and had treatment because I was able to afford the treatment. I know that these conditions are not only rich man's diseases, but also for everybody. Anybody out there can have them. When you...

Sorry. I just want to correct Hon. Kailemia who says one does not have to remove clothes to be considered ill.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, you see many people nodding on the streets while walking nude. Right? They strip their clothes because of their mental condition. They have reached a point where they are on their own. They end up removing their clothes and feel free that way. That mental condition requires...

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the debate on the list of Cabinet Secretaries who were recently vetted. I commend the Committee, under your leadership and that of the Deputy Speaker, for the good work you have done. I note the transparency of airing it across...

Yes. Go ahead. Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. In the last Parliament, I was a member of the Departmental Committee on Health. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Hon. Gladys Boss, came to talk to us about the dangers of pesticides in our food, continued use of...

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill. I commend the Budget and Appropriation Committee for all their work. We have all been mentioning how we have had an unprecedented history happen in our country due to the protests by the Gen-Zs....

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. The reason as to why we have committees and chairs of committees is because we stand guided by them. I have just heard the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Administration and Internal Security, Hon. Tongoyo, tell us that both...

Hon. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 43, I wish to make a Statement regarding the commemoration of the Pan- African Women’s Day, 2024. Today, 31st July 2024, the African continent is observing the Pan-African Women’s Day 2024, under the theme: Gender, Environment and Justice. The Pan-African Women’s Day, held under...

Thank you, for giving me this opportunity to speak to this historic Supplementary Budget. Before I go to the Budget, yesterday was a very sad day for my county. There were demonstrations and we saw residential areas like Pipeline and Zimmerman in Roysambu being tear-gassed. Those are highly congested and...