WANJALA RAPHAEL BITTA SAUTI

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. The Minister for Environment said that bamboo trees are used to stop flooding. I do not want to say... Mitigate flooding. Sorry. Mitigate flooding. I do not want to challenge him. However, I want to tell him that flooding is one thing, and mitigating flooding...

Most obliged.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to this extremely important Motion. Education is an equalizer. If you ask these Members which families they come from, each one of them has a history to tell on how they grew up, how they were brought up...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the First Report of the Committee on Implementation on the implementation status of Reports on Petitions and Resolutions passed by the House, laid on the Table of the House on 26th October You have to be...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. What is your point of order, Hon. Wanjala? Hon. Mutunga, take your seat. Give him the microphone. Hon. Speaker, I would like to bring to the attention of the Chair that on page 21… Which Chair? I am sorry. It is the Speaker....

On a point of order. What is it again, Hon. Wanjala? You look restless. Hon. Speaker, recently, this country almost went into a revolution. The Generation Zoomers (Gen Zs) said that they do not want people above 60 years to hold Government or civil service offices.

Hon. Speaker, I want to give some additional information that I have just received to support her Request for Statement. On 11th July, Ugandan police operating in Lake Victoria arrested eight people from Bunyala South Location, Bunyala South Ward, Budalangi Constituency. They are:

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Thank you for responding to the several issues that Members have asked you because these were the questions that were disturbing Kenyans out there. This Bill has really cost some of the people who voted yes. Therefore, we do not want to waste time with it....

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

On a point of order, Hon. Chairlady.

Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. (Hon. Shakeel Shabir carried a placard in the House)

Hon. Chairlady, you have seen what has happened in the House. Hon. Shakeel Shabbir was very orderly, just carrying a placard. How can the Orderlies grab and mishandle an honourable Member in the House who was not violent and neither fighting anybody? You want to allow that? Kwa nini mnatufanya...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Order, Hon. Wanjala. What is out of order? Give Hon. Wanjala the microphone. What Standing Order are you standing on? Standing Order 91.

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. What is out of order, Hon. Wanjala? Can you cite the Standing Order that you are relying on? (Loud consultations) Hon. Speaker, you used the Standing Orders to call us here today.

Hon. Speaker, I am relying on Standing Order No.1. (Laughter)

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Wanjala, what is your point of order? Mention the Standing Order that you are relying on. That is what every Member has been doing. Hon. Speaker, I know you are biased against me. I am not talking... What Standing Order are you...

(Technical hitch)The issue of disaster in this country (inaudible) and what people are going through when they are affected by disaster… Being one of the victims, year-in, year-out, I would tell the whole country and world what we are going through and nobody would understand. Today, what has happened in...

Every year we have this problem. Nyando (inaudible) Nyakach, up to (inaudible) . We have all these problems (inaudible) . The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng’) : Hon. Wanjala, order! Use the microphone next to you because we are not hearing you well. Go ahead. As we move (inaudible) the...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. Today, the Member for Budalang’i, Hon. Raphael Wanjala, will have a sound sleep. I take this opportunity to thank the Leader of the Majority Party. Sometimes, we are here but our Standing Orders and some of the laws limit us in what we can do...