OWINO, MARTIN PETERS

I heard her clearly. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Much has been said about this Bill and I just want to add my voice to it. Disaster Management is a process. It starts with prevention. I emphasise that we need to focus more on prevention to avoid getting caught unawares....

Hon. Chepkong’a, we want this to be good, but this is very dangerous. For example, if a court is satisfied, where is the mechanism that will tell us that between these two Houses…? Sometimes, these things are driven by interests. Delays can also be there. We are talking of a...

Hon. Speaker, I appreciate for the opportunity. I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Youth Affairs, Creative Economy and Sports the following Question:

Hon. Speaker, just a quick supplementary. The CS has talked about a master plan and I was hoping that he could pinpoint when we will have the beneficiaries. He has just said within the framework and that is a bit discouraging. We also do not have the privilege of having...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I appreciate you for giving me this opportunity. At the outset, I support this Bill and say kudos to my Chair, Hon. Yussuf. The Chairman and the whole team have been very passionate at looking into issues of disabilities. In the 2019 census, 2.2 per cent of...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I want to support this Report. There are some idioms that teach us. For example, debt is slavery to those who are free. If those who are free are grossly indebted, they become slaves of the lender as is in this case. Hon. Sir George...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Question 203/2023 SUB-DIVISION OF NDHIWA CONSTITUENCY INTO THREE ADMINISTRATIVE UNITS Hon. Speaker, I beg to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and National Administration the following Question. Considering that the 2019 Kenya Housing and Population Census reported that Ndhiwa Constituency with seven wards and a population...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate the acknowledgement and merit that Ndhiwa deserves this. But as he said earlier, prevention is equally important. Even if the resources are scarce and we all acknowledge that, Cabinet Secretary, I would also ask when it will be gazetted. That does not take a...

The reason I am supporting this is for the headquarters to remain in Nairobi. Only branches can be established elsewhere, as stated in the amendment. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Hon. Pukose, kindly summarise this matter.

If Hon. T.J. and the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs could not get that, this is highly technical. You cannot have anyone without a basic degree in pharmacy doing this. I, therefore, support. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Hon. (Dr) Gogo.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, when you have resigned, you are not a Member of Parliament. That is out of question. I wanted you to give us guidance. With all these amendments coming from the Floor all the time, we will not finish this. If they were submitted as the Speaker said,...

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I also rise to support this. The Authority is not going to work in silos; it is going to follow the global practice. Clause (b) (aa) is important because it talks of adapting and implementing good and internationally recognised regulatory practices. I support. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon....

I think we are missing the point here. The current Pharmacy and Poisons Board (PPB) does not regulate traditional medicine. If we want to regulate traditional medicine, let us think of another Bill. It is not in this one. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Thank you, Member of...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am a very happy man today because I have been fighting for this proposed law since I joined the healthcare delivery system. Where have you been fighting? I have been fighting for it internationally and nationally. It is very interesting. We started working in...

I just want the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock to explain the harm of having a representative from private growers. In Ndhiwa, which I represent in this House, we have a private one and their participation in sugar issues is very helpful to farmers. Just help...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. Clause 2 (b) does the counter-productive to the whole thing. Chairman of the Committee, I want you to listen to this because you mean well. However, you take away the power of the board by what you have put here that the importers report to...

If you want to know where farmers lose, it is this one. I support it only if we can add something like “technical” in sub section (g) where it reads “technical nominee of the sugar research” especially on the sugar sucrose content. That is the main thing why the pricing...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Sugar issues are very emotive. I am a product of sugarcane farming back when sugar was sugar. As the Leader of the Minority Party mentioned, the enactment of the Crop Act was a disaster for the sugar industry, which nosedived. Many children dropped out of...