Kajwang Francis Tom Joseph

Hon. Speaker, the Member for Kikuyu was speaking very well. I do not know at what point he changed from being the Member for Kikuyu to being the Leader of the Majority Party. When he became the Leader of the Majority Party, he assumed certain things that should not happen...

That is not what he said, Hon. Speaker. Maybe you want to look at the Hansard when you retire. What he is saying is even making it worse. I do not want to play politics with this matter. We must never play politics with people who do not have a...

Hon. Speaker, you know, I am very keen and adept to procedure and law. Whereas the Member makes a lot of sense because we want to develop and debate this Motion properly, we have developed a practice which is now in the Standing Orders such that if a Member wants...

On a point of order! What is your point of order, Hon. TJ? Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am on a point of order not on the distinguished Member on the Floor. It is due to Hon. Osoro, the Whip of the Majority Party. He has closed the door to the...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, is it in order for the Member—I know she is a new Member—to address the people while referring to this side as the “opposition side”? The last time I checked there was only the Majority side and the Minority side.

No! No! You are speaking to The Hansard. Is it in order that this Member refers to us as opposition?

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Hon. Kajwang’ is on a point of order. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you know, according to my rank and seniority, I do not rise on spurious issues but Members on the right-hand side of the Speaker keep on speaking about leader of opposition....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As you know, trying to speak in Kiswahili will be like committing suicide in this House. Because I respect it, I do not want to start falling down - that the whole Member for Ruaraka has choked because his tongue entered in his throat. So,...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. We have dealt with the issue of two-thirds gender rule exactly in terms of how Mheshimiwa Ng’eno has said. It is not out of the question of lack of law being in the Constitution. The Constitution mandates us to make legislation to make it work,...

Article 38 deals with political rights, and political rights begin from participation in political parties. Every citizen has a right to participate in fair and regular elections, and the vote is taken by secret ballot. That is the point. Thank you for bringing up this issue. Kindly, read up to...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. There is nobody on the Floor and so, there cannot be a point of order. (Loud consultations) Yes, within the context. Hon. Speaker. I feel a little bad when the Leader of Majority Party, a man whom in other circumstances we are friends;...

Hon. Speaker, ordinarily, this kind of Motion should not receive a lot of loud opposition. However, the point we are pursuing is that this is a House of records, procedure and decorum. Disclosure is very important to Members so that we debate from a point of knowledge. No Member moving...

Nowadays, I do not understand the issue of points of order. Everything is a point of order even when nothing is out of order.

Hon. Speaker, I long for the days when I served in the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs alongside my learned friend. Unfortunately, that is not what I am seeing happening. He knows very well that I am quite in order. The House Business Committee is just a committee...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. What is out of order, Hon. Kajwang’? Hon. Speaker, there is an issue we struggled with in the 12th Parliament but it continues to give us headache to-date. You may want to make a considered ruling on this one. It is with regard...

Hon. Speaker, thank you. You know there is nothing more expensive now in this House than being a Member of Azimio. You become a favourite punch bag. To become a Member of ODM is like having gold. Everybody seems to think that good things come from ODM even when it...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, probably the Question should be proposed first before I make my comments. (Question proposed)

(Spoke off-record) Let me allow you to make a brief comment. Hon. Deputy Speaker, thank you very much for allowing me to add my voice to the Motion despite Dr. Pukose who always wants Questions to be put because he has nothing to debate when he comes to the House....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, five minutes is short I may not do justice to this amendment. I want to be the devil’s advocate here. We have agreed as senior counsel. Hon. Otiende Amollo has said that the drafting of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) is well done. We can...

Hon. Speaker, we have successfully gone through a very exciting exercise which is very important to this House. I thank you for guiding us. The Order we are going to step on is equally taxing. Some of us had researched and made ourselves ready so that we contribute positively in...