Timothy Kipchumba

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill, that is, the Food and Feed Security Safety Control Coordination Bill. I rise to support this important legislation that seeks to establish an oversight body to check the competitive authorities established under other legislations....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to welcome students from various institutions. I welcome them to Parliament, the august House. A special mention to Kamasat Primary School in the Public Gallery, which is my alma mater. It holds special memory in me. I was in that...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, did you say 10 minutes? Yes, you have 10 minutes, but you can choose to donate some. Very well, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I wish to donate one-and-a-half minutes each to Hon. Donya and Hon. Phylis Bartoo.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, Hon. Nimrod Mbai has been on my neck. Allow me to donate one minute to him.

I take this opportunity to sincerely thank Hon. Members who substantively contributed towards this Motion. The Members supported this Motion in substance, letter and spirit. I sincerely, from the deepest part of my heart, thank them. The Motion speaks to the issue of cancer in this country. The overwhelming support...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On the issue of KDF recruitment, the Minister has assured us… Hon. Timothy, I have not given you the Floor, but go ahead. (Loud consultations) Sorry, Hon. Speaker. As an independent Member of Parliament, I have a right to be heard in this House. I have...

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to submit on this subject matter. I thank my friend from Turkana East, Hon. Nicholas Nixon, for moving this very important Motion. I watched with horror as the Woman Representative of Turkana County was submitting on this subject matter while weeping. It is...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, aware that Article 42 (1) (a) of the Constitution provides for the right of every person to access the highest attainable standard of health, which includes the right to health care services; further aware that cancer is among the...

Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this substantive Motion, the Report on UNCAC and GOPAC) Annual General Meeting. Corruption, in this country, is a menace. For this country to progress, we must find a decisive way of dealing with corruption. I thank the...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to speak on the subject matter. Before that, I would like to welcome the delegation from the County Assembly of Elgeyo Marakwet. Prior to joining Parliament, I served in the County Assembly of Elgeyo Marakwet from the 2013 to 2022 as...

Yes. Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to prosecute this Petition on the Floor of this House. I rise pursuant to Article 119 of the Constitution and Standing Order 219 to raise a Petition regarding deregistration and dismissal of Mr. Joseph Kimeli Chebii by the Teachers Service...

Thank you for giving me this opportunity to prosecute this Motion. Before that, I apologise to the Members. I was to present a Motion on the Establishment of a National Cancer Prevention and Control Fund in the morning and I had informed some of the Members here. I apologise because...

On a point of order. What is out of order? Hon. Speaker, I have a Question that is listed on the Order Paper.

I am well guided, Hon. Speaker. I saw Members interject on supplementary questions, whereas I have a specific Question. They are joyriders, and I have allowed them. (Laughter) Very well.

Hon. Speaker, I rise to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation the following Question:

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I appreciate the manner in which the Cabinet Secretary has handled this matter. I have a few supplementary questions I wish to raise. The first one is: is the Cabinet Secretary willing to visit the aforesaid institutions as a matter of urgency to ascertain the extent...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on the National Rating Bill. Before joining Parliament, I worked as a Legal Counsel in Elgeyo Marakwet County, and the biggest challenge that we have in this country is duplication of legislation or...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I stand guided on that matter. We now have a comprehensive legislation that will handle matters of property rates in this country. As I was saying earlier, we have had haphazard property rate legislation in this country. Each county government has been enacting its own legislation, but...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, it is not only in North Eastern part of this country that we have challenges of land that has not been adjudicated. In Elgeyo Marakwet County where I come from, my constituency has land that is not demarcated and adjudicated. We have no title deeds in those...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Motion on the ban of the importation of hazardous waste to Africa, and in particular Kenya, because we are ratifying it here. This Motion has come at a very important time when Kenya is becoming a global champion in matters to do...

Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I know he is a learned man.

Yes, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I am duly informed. I will take up that matter so that we can initiate an amendment to the Act to that effect. What I was saying is that it is important that the Members of this House are on the negotiating table during the negotiation...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this very important Motion. I rise to support this defence co-operation between the Republic of Kenya and the Republic of Seychelles. I thank the Committee led by the Chair for presenting this Defence Co-operation Agreement. Unlike yesteryears, the veil...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. It is not in doubt that the NG-CDF has been of great significance in this country. If you compare the monies sent to the constituencies through the NG-CDF and those sent to counties,...

Maybe I can prosecute that matter that I had raised in this House. I will give you three more minutes. Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for adding me more time to prosecute that matter. This House must stamp its authority. Montesquieu was never wrong when he talked about separation of...