Robert Pukose

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this Motion by the Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee on the consideration of the Reports of the Auditor-General for the Financial Years 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, for the counties of Mombasa, Kwale, Kilifi, Tana River,...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following papers on the Table: Reports of the Departmental Committee on Health on:

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have keenly listened to your ruling. Normally, once the Speaker has delivered a ruling, a Member cannot appeal it directly but may be allowed to make some comments. In his comments, Hon. Speaker, I expected the Leader of the...

Hon. (Dr) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to the Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill of 2022. This Bill was considered before our Departmental Committee on Health. We conducted public participation and we got several memoranda. We made the following observations: First, the...

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

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, with all due respect to my colleague, I think he is misleading the House. The Bill is an amendment of an Act of Parliament. It seeks to amend Section 79 of the Act. It introduces a new section after Section 79....

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

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to refer the House to Section 79 of the Health Act on referrals. It says: “The national Government Department for Health shall develop policy guidelines for referral mechanisms and a system of referrals from practitioners of traditional and alternative...

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

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Since the Majority Whip has asked why I am against this proposal, I want to state as follows: Clause 79 of the parent Act, not the amendment, provides that the national Government Department of Health shall develop policy guidelines...

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

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA Hon. Speaker, the Majority Whip is a leader. As a leader, he must be able to address other professionals with decorum. You cannot make a blanket statement with reference to doctors who are practising and saving lives in this country. The doctors have taken...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to ask the Cabinet Secretary about the registration of new schools in some of the areas, particularly in Endebess where we have new or young schools without TSC teachers. What is he doing about it and what is...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. For the last two financial years, many constituencies have not been connected to electricity, both in terms of transformers and the Last Mile Connectivity Programme, which covers 600 metres. We were told that it was because REREC was not...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I ask under Standing Order 95 that the Mover be called upon to reply.

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for allowing me to contribute. At the outset, I oppose this ratification. Many people who are contributing to this have not read and understood it. 27th April 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 8 Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA)The conventions mean...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Prime Cabinet Secretary, you have given the measures that the Government is planning, when do we expect the economy to improve?

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

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, the issues the Leader of the Minority Party has raised are very weighty and I think it is very wrong for him to raise them and still support the Report. If what he has raised is true and the HANSARD is...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Deputy Speaker Member for Endebess, what is your point of order? Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, without anticipating the next debate which will be at 4.00 p.m. following your ruling, we...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I support the Motion of Adjournment by the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party. Our law, the Penal Code, Section 225 on Aiding Suicide says: “Any person who—

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Deputy Speaker, I know that this is a very important Motion that needs to be passed by the House. We need to have the Commission working as early as possible. Therefore, I rise under Standing Order 95 to request that the Mover be...

Hon. (Dr). Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the Motion on regulation of the betting industry by Hon. Duncan Mathenge. In this Motion, Hon. Mathenge, Member for Nyeri Town, asks the House to adopt that we regulate the running of lotteries and any...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Cabinet Secretary for responding to the question, although I know it has been overtaken by events because people are already working on their farms. Many forest stations have officers who have worked there for many years. The...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) On a point of order. Hon. Speaker What is your point of order, Hon. (Dr.) Pukose? Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Madam Cabinet Secretary, you have not responded to my question. I asked: What are you doing to the...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Petition by Hon. Owen Baya. These issues of land and people having their land taken away irregularly is an issue that the Committee will look at when they retreat. They need to look at this...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you for allowing me to contribute to this Motion on reduction of the cost of electricity. You know that the cost of electricity has been rising. If you buy tokens and compare them with the ones you bought last month at the same...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Cabinet Secretary and congratulate him for being the first Cabinet Secretary to appear in the House. My question is about Huduma Namba cards. What happened to them? At one time, a lot of money was used to...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Health on its consideration of the Ratification of the African Union Treaty for the Establishment of the African Medicines Agency (AMA) , laid...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebes, UDA) On a point of intervention.

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebes, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I would like to thank Hon. Millie for raising those issues. The African Medical Agency is an African Union Body that standardises the practice, whether it is traditional or conventional medicine, in all the countries that are signatories -...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I thank the Members who have contributed. More so, I thank the Members of the Departmental Committee on Health for the time they have spent to make sure that they did public 12th April 2023 NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES 48...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Speaker, I beg to reply on behalf of the Members of the Kenya Delegation to the 144th and 145th Assemblies of the Inter- Parliamentary Union (IPU) tabled on 7th March 2023 and Thursday, 2nd March 2023, respectively. The two Reports were tabled in...

Hon. (Dr.) Robert Pukose (Endebess, UDA) Hon. Temporary Speaker, I am standing under Standing Order 35 to say that we do not have quorum. Maybe, you can give a ruling on that.