Gideon Ochanda

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The President carried out a very critical national duty last week in this House. It should be understood that it was a serious national duty. I only want to make two or three comments, which I ought to have made when the Leader of the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The whole idea of... (A Member spoke off the record) Hon. Kimani messed up when he was talking about the dual carriage way. He forgot about the Kiswahili bit in it. Anyway, that is why I am not using it, Hon. Kiarie. The whole idea...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I support the Report. However, I want to go on record that I am not happy about the recommendations because they are too mild. There are issues of malice and illegality in the Report. There is malice in the sense that the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We have taken a number of hours looking for water. I do not know whether we can take equal number of hours to do away with water. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation the following Question:...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I really appreciate that effort. Reclamation is basically under her Ministry. If there was a mix-up, it might not have been looked at appropriately. I need time so that I follow it up. The reclamation efforts that I am talking about here were started before...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On behalf of the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Lands, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table: Report of the Departmental Committee on Lands on its consideration of the National Rating Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 55 of 2022) .

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support given that it is a constitutional mandate for this House to support this Bill. Our sister House, the Senate, has done some good work on it. I want to bring in two new aspects that the House might not have considered...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. When the Cabinet Secretary was giving us details of classrooms that were done, all of them were in secondary schools. Grade Seven are still in primary schools. It means there is infrastructure that is basically not in use. In terms of projection, will Grade Seven and...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to be brief considering your call. If from a layman’s point of view, I was to make the Budget for this country, there are three things that I will place emphasis on. First is food, second is debt, and the third one will...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. What I am trying to illustrate is … I have tried to check on that across the board in the last three days and it is amazing that we have students in Form One who cannot read or write. I have taken that up with...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will keep this brief so that you can go to Hon. Chonga as soon as possible. Some of the things that occur in our country will shock you if you compare them to what occurs in other countries. Mogadishu has operated with light and...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am really in the last wagon of debt vilification. If you look at what we call Consolidated Fund Services, the only service that is traceable to serious investment is debt. All the others are like consumable kind of services that we have. To that...

Hon. Speaker, I want to comment on the issue of Article 223. As Members, we need to do the right things and approve the national Budget. Article 223 gives space within which the Executive is able to use monies that have not yet been approved by this House. It is...

Okay. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As I rise to second this Motion, let me make a few things straight. We are having these names in batches because they were submitted to the Board at different times. The first that have been cleared by the Board so far are 124....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, you may want to give guidance because I am going to second at the end of it. I will say ‘I Second.’ He is making his comments but he will still second at the end. My first statement was, “Before I second, there are these things that...

Thank you very much. Kiongozi, give me a moment to make this point clear for Members to understand, so that we reduce the interruptions. At the moment, we are in the process of gazetting our Constituencies Development Fund Committee members. It is one of the preconditions that we must have....

Thank you very much. What I am saying is very useful, particularly to the new Members. I want to respond to what Hon. Tindi has raised. There is no single day that the members of the Board will be here to talk for themselves. That is not the order. It...

Okay. That is fine. Some of the leaders are trying to mislead the House so, be a little bit cautious because that is not the direction.

I am supposed to make many statements within the time that I am allowed to have, when seconding the Motion. You cannot force me to say that I second the Motion and then sit down. That is not the procedure. Hon. Ochanda, you have four minutes. Hon. Temporary Speaker, I...