Robert Pukose

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you Hon. Speaker for allowing me to join Hon. Mule in congratulating the Hon. Members from the African region for attending the Nairobi Summit on TB. Hon. Speaker, just for your information and for the information of the House, we had Members from...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. As Hon. Rozaah Buyu puts it, some of those victims were shot at the back. I asked myself who was shooting them on the back when they are throwing stones at the police? Was there somebody armed with guns...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for protecting me from Hon. Otiende Amollo. We have seen what has happened. The court made a ruling giving stay orders on the petition on the Finance Bill. So, whenever the issue of demonstrations comes up, I wonder what...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I saw some of the Members of the minority coalition putting on white clothes while holding the vigils. To me, that was shedding crocodile tears. If they had not called for demonstrations, we would not have lost those lives....

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon Atandi has made a very serious allegation. He claims that 90 per cent of the people who were killed are members of the Luo community. That is wrong. It is profiling a community. He is out of order. We should...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) On a point of order.

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you. Hon. Temporary Speaker, you were being distracted when Hon. Junet was making this allegation that I said the people who were shot were shot from the back. It was Hon. Buyu in her statement who said that they were shot from the...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Is the Member in order to justify the fact that people were called to demonstrate and, therefore, they had a right to be there, and had a right to be shot by police? I think that is what I...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I support the amendment on the regulations as brought by Hon. Chepkonga, the Chairman of the Committee on Delegated Legislation, to approve the Value Added Tax (Electronic, Internet and Digital Market Place Supply) Regulations, 2023, as published in the Legal...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Having lived and worked in Baringo, there is no forest in that area of Mukutani. It is very unfair that the Government can gazette community land as a forest area. It will be very important that the Committee, once they...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Speaker, the Solai Dam tragedy occurred in December 2018. The Government that is in place was elected in 2022. I am rising on a point of order on facts. The Member for Budalang’i Constituency, Hon. Wanjala, is not being factual. I think a...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to ask the Cabinet Secretary to explain to us the benefits to the people of North Rift, especially those on the upper side of River Nzoia like Sabwani and Kimoson, which are in Endebess. How will the people...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Petition by the Member for Kilifi North. I want to join my colleagues to welcome the Speaker of Kilifi County Assembly, Hon. Teddy Mwambire, who was a Member of this House in the...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I want to support the amendment by the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on this. The Housing Fund is, as the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party has put it,

Hon (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Supplementary Budget II. From the outset, I want to thank the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and join Hon. Mbadi in saying we have a very efficient and...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) (Inaudible) .

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Babu Owino has not voted.

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Chairlady. If the amendment by the Chairperson passes, all other amendments fall. That is the order of precedence. You cannot amend the clause twice. (Loud consultations)

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this Bill. At the outset, I support the Finance Bill, 2023. Hon. Speaker, if you look at the Finance Bill, especially on the medical side, vaccines, medicaments – that is pharmaceutical drugs – are...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Speaker, these are the results of the Division. The Ayes have 176 votes and the Nays have 81 votes. The total number of Members who voted is 257. There was no abstention. RESULTS AYES

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand to support the appointment of Hon. Isaac Kiprono Rutto as a member to the JSC. He is a distinguished member having served as a distinguished Governor of Bomet, a Minister in the past and a Member of this...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose On a point of information, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I just wanted to let Hon. Chepkonga know that we used not to call it chapati, but “dialogue”.

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairlady. I stand to support the allocation of Ksh7.3 billion to State House. Some Members who are contributing cannot differentiate between the Office of the President and State House. State House is the seat of power for the country and...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I support this allocation to the Ministry of Health. I want to inform my colleague that, as much as health is devolved, the Ministry of Health houses the national referral hospital like the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) , Moi...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. For the first time, we can see that the budget for the Judiciary has been increased. I think this is a very good move in terms of making sure that the Judiciary can expand into more areas. We expect...