Julius Kipbirwot Meli

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This Bill is very timely and important. It will ensure that accounting officers at the two levels of Government are accountable to the people. The Bill explicitly explains the relationship between a transferring entity at the national or county Government and the responsibilities conferred to...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to thank the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning for bringing this important Bill. It will go a long way in promoting national development, transparency, competitiveness and more importantly, allow local contractors to really thrive. As the Leader of...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise under Standing Order 53 (1) which states: “53. (1) When a motion has been moved and if necessary seconded, the Speaker shall propose the question thereon in the same terms as the motion, and debate may then take place upon that question.” Thank...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The Member for Soy did not hear what I said. I rose under Standing Order 53 (3) requesting you to defer the putting of the Question.

We deliberated the proposal by the Hon. Chair of the Committee in the 12th Parliament. It is more than being specific with fields. Management in coffee and running an institution has to have a bias in agriculture to make sure that the sector grows well. This amendment is quite in...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. If you look at the sub-clauses the Chairman is amending, he is denying county governments their own dues. Agriculture is a devolved function. We are deleting sub-clause 4 yet the county government officer has also been given permission to inspect warehouses and issue licenses or...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I support what the Chairman has said. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai) : Thank you very much. Hon. Wamuchomba. Please, give her the microphone.

I would request the Chairman to explain again why he is deleting the whole of Clause 48. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai) : Hon. Chairman, please, give the justification to the House.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, this is one of the most progressive amendments by the Chairman. Liquoring, as we speak right now, depends on the whims of individuals. There is no specific method. That is why, at times, some coffee is said to be of high quality, but when you ask the...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beseech the Chairperson that this levy is supposed to promote coffee growing, development and more importantly to incentivise new areas to grow coffee. The 12 per cent for coffee development is the money that we levy the crop. Thirty-five per cent is for the institute, 20...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I agree with the Chairman on the issue of the Mwongozo Code of Conduct, but the CEO need not be a PhD holder. It has been known and seen that a number of very competent first-degree holders are very good CEOs in the banking sector....

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to speak on the State of the Nation address by His Excellency the President. This is a constitutional requirement the Constitution of Kenya 2010 requires of every President. On 21st of this month, the President came to the House and reported on three...

Hon. Speaker, I also rise to contribute to this discussion. The chairpersons and leadership of this House, like any other human beings, can err. They also have many commitments. Therefore, a blanket condemnation of the chairpersons and the leadership of this House is inaccurate. We have so many chairpersons who...

Hon. Speaker, I do not have the answers now. However, we all know that chairmen of committees deliver information to this House on behalf of the Cabinet Secretaries. I will endeavour to find out what is happening because that is very bad. Can you report back on Wednesday afternoon? I...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. This is a very important Bill for our country and, more importantly, for the socio- economic development of our nation. The co-operative movement in this country was a very powerful movement in the 60s, 70s and 80s. Its contribution...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I want to agree with the Chairman that retaining Clause 64 will be an overlap. The specifications of the penalties have been provided for. The Chairman and the Committee are right. Therefore, we need to delete that clause. Thank you. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. (Dr) Rachael Nyamai)...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I really want the Chairman to come out clearly especially on what is devolved and what is not, so that we can be clear on this particular thing. This is the amendment in Clause 3 (a) specifically, so that we...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The two Members have put it very candidly. In the coffee industry, a large-scale farmer is anyone who owns more than five acres of land. They do not always have an association, nor do they co- operate with small-scale farmers who are in the co-operatives....

Hon. Temporary Chairman, there is an amendment to delete Clause 7 (1) (f) and substitute it with a new paragraph (f) that talks about one person nominated by coffee co-operative societies. Smallholder farmers are always in co- operative societies. Therefore, the estates and the large-scale farmers are missing. The Temporary...

Hon. Wamuchomba, that is well said. Hon. Temporary Chairman, to understand the deliberations, to understand board minutes and even to go into international meetings and forums on coffee, we need people who understand. Hon. Wamuchomba has put it very clearly.The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim): Hon. Muthoni.

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : What is your point of order, Hon. Melly? Hon. Temporary Chairman, as a matter of procedure… The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : Yes. Hon. Temporary Chairman, as we go through Bills in the House,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I support the Chairman because this Bill does not lock out the standards that Hon. Oundo is talking about. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : It is, in essence, locking them out. It is not locking them out in the sense that it is in corroboration....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, as I hear the intentions of Hon. Oundo and other Hon. Members because Kenya sells almost 95 per cent of its coffee in the international market, it is the KEBS and others that set international standards. We have the Kenya Bureau of Standards and many other local...

It is the Member for Luanda.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I stand on behalf of the people of Tinderet to convey my sincere condolences to the late Hon. Suleiman Murunga, whom I served with in the 11th Parliament. As indicated by my colleagues, Hon. Murunga was a humble leader, an astute politician and more importantly,...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand here to respond to your direction of yesterday. Indeed, Moi University is in a crisis. I submitted the request for statement from Hon. Wamboka on the issue of the university. However, I received an inadequate response. It does not address the issues that Hon....

Hon. Speaker, I agree with you wholeheartedly. I also agree with what Members have said. They have raised pertinent issues. When a Principal Secretary gives a two-paragraph statement on such a serious matter, it is belittling the House. I forwarded the Member’s request for statement to the Ministry; only for...

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to commend Hon. (Dr) Pukose, the Chairperson, and the Members who have raised this particular issue. It is a very pertinent issue. As the rule requires, mid-level colleges and university students in the Republic should get loans and scholarships through the Higher Education...

Thank you. I have two responses, but I will start with the response on Moi University, which we had deferred in the morning because of an inadequate response from the Ministry. I also want to thank Hon. Wamboka and the Members of this House who showed much interest in the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The issues raised are very pertinent. I would like to inform the House what the caretaker committee will do. It should be a very efficient and proper caretaker committee. My Committee shall visit the university in the next two weeks. One of the things we...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I join my fellow Members of Parliament in mourning the late Hon. Opore, whom we served together in the 12th Parliament and in the Public Accounts Committee. He was a great debater and a very calm Member. More importantly as said, he had a lot...

On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. What is your point of order Hon. Melly? Hon. Deputy Speaker, the Whip of the Majority Party is demeaning my county, which is the source of champions. The county is known for tea and sugarcane. It is even where the nationalist Koitalel...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I laud the sponsor of the Bill, Hon. Wangwe, and the Chair of the Committee, the Member for Tigania West. Hon. Temporary Speaker, as representative of farmers in the sugarcane-growing areas, I want to state that we have waited...

Yes. It is Hon. David who does not understand the issues at play. He is excited about the issue. There are a number of issues that I want to bring to the attention of Members. First, is the issue of the Infrastructure Fund. It is the considered opinion of farmers...

I would like to be informed because he was a Member of the Mediation Committee.

Yes, I have adequately been informed. Do you still want to be informed by the Member for Soy? You can choose not to be informed. On what issue? What is the information?

I want you to guide the young legislator that this is a House of debate. This is a House where we ventilate on issues affecting our people. We do not just deposit legislative proposals in this House and pass them unanimously without critique. It is in order to inform the...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to thank Hon. Boss Shollei for bringing this Statement. Our country, and more importantly, Nandi, Uasin Gishu and Elgeyo Marakwet counties, have been a powerhouse across the world in terms of athletics since the 1950s - the days of Ben Jipcho and the others....

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I will give a response in two weeks.

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I give an undertaking that I shall return the report to the House in two weeks. However, on the issue of El Molo, because the examination process is actually due or has already started, I promise to undertake that I bring the report before Thursday,...