Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am not the Chairperson of the Budget and Finance Committee. Nonetheless, I will handle this Bill on his behalf. I am told the Committee is concluding on this report, and probably by the time I finish moving, they will have the report in the House or...

Mr. Speaker, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.11 to move that debate on this Motion be limited to five minutes for each Senator. We have a very difficult situation today. We have five Motions, which at the rise of the House at 6.30 p.m.; all the work that our...

We are 30 of us in the House. Since there are five Motions and the time we have already agreed, we want to request that you further guide that we limit the speakers to six per Motion. That will provide an opportunity for everybody to speak. It will take only...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg for your indulgence. There is another critical matter we are handling. We would like to request that you allow the Mover to reply in 30 seconds also, so that we vote for it together. Which one is this, the Senate Majority Leader? It is...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Statement pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) . I present the business for the week commencing Tuesday, 1st April, 2025, when we resume from recess. As Hon. Senators are aware, at the rise of the House today, the Senate will proceed on recess until...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I do not know why the Senate Majority Whip is animated this afternoon and why he wants to announce to the students that I have not been around for a while but it is only last week and I have been coming in the evenings after class...

I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is an important Report that comes from the Committee on Finance and Budget. It is a pity that it is being moved late in the evening when most Members are out. However, I hope that each Senator gets an opportunity to speak on...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I join you on behalf of the House and our colleagues, those that are in the Chamber, to welcome this visiting delegation of students from the TUK. The university is closest to this House. I hope that they get to enjoy their time with us...

I think maybe it should be just a small typo, but we commented about it.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) to hereby present the business for the week that commences Tuesday, 11th March, 2025. Allow me to give the status of legislative business pending before the Senate then I will make this presentation. There are 55...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will be unfair to us, but we will try to do justice to an ongoing important national conversation. You can each have three minutes. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will try to speak within three minutes. I agree with what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was informing...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to join you in welcoming these students from Getarwet Secondary School. It is in my home county in Bureti Subcounty. It is a very progressive school that I have had the opportunity to visit a couple of times, and even built a classroom in...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table. Report of the Auditor General on Financial Statements of Machakos County Bursary Fund for the year ended 30th June, 2024. Report of the Auditor General on Financial Statements of the County Executive of Lamu for the year...

Sen. Osotsi.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I beg to lay the following papers on the Table of the Senate, today, Wednesday the 5th March, 2025 - Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements of the County Executive of Murang’a for the year ended 30th June, 2024. Report of the Auditor-General on...

Matters have been raised this afternoon by colleagues and have been directed to the Committees. Allow me to perhaps very quickly comment on two of them. One is on the security situation in Laikipia. I continue to empathise with Kenyans who, out of challenges of security, lose their property. However,...

Okay, Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am properly guided. I yield the Floor then to other Senators.

Thank you. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join you on behalf of my colleagues to welcome the comrades from Mama Ngina University College. I hope the students have had to follow what's happened in the house thus far. Today is one of those slow days if what they know about Parliament...

On a point of information, Mr. Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, as his senior, he has no option but to listen when I speak. I wanted to inform Sen. Cherarkey that Kenya imports significant power from Ethiopia. What he is asking for is already happening. The only challenge that we have is that to do transmission lines from...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know--- (Interruption of debate on Motion)

We are still debating.

I guess that is the problem. I suspect he did not get enough sleep while there. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this report and reply to a Petition by Mr. Kerich Kiprono, Hillary, a resident of Bomet County. I do not know exactly where in Bomet. However, as...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to also add my voice to this Report of the Mediation Committee of the Conflict of Interest Bill. This is an interesting Bill because it has passed both Houses of Parliament and ended up in the Mediation Committee after a protracted battle....

May I proceed?

Madam Temporary Speaker, this issue should bother us. It must disturb any leader, that we continue to talk about it but there is very little that is being done. A few weeks ago, one of the seven top decision-making members of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CPC) visited...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to reply. I thank you, colleagues, who took the time to speak on this Report. On behalf of Sen. Sigei, who was the Vice-Chairperson of the Mediation Committee, I appreciate colleagues. Under Standing Order No.66, I beg to request that we defer the putting of...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the Senate, I join you in welcoming these students from Precious Blood in Kiambu, who are here on a visit and a study tour of the Senate. This is the Senate of the Republic of Kenya. Sometimes, we are calm like...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate, today, Wednesday, 26th February, 2025- Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements of the County Executive of Homa Bay for the year ended 30th June, 2024. Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements...

Sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg for your indulgence so that we can dispense this letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Water, Sanitation and Irrigation, Hon. (Eng.) Eric Muriithi Mugaa. I agree with you that what the Cabinet Secretary is saying is important. However, coming here is equally as...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I join you, together with all our other colleagues, in welcoming this visiting delegation from the Kingdom of Lesotho. This is a delightful occasion for us to have this delegation, particularly in the study that they are undertaking at the CPST; a key premium training institution run...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate, today, Tuesday, 25th February, 2025. These are the reports of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements of Kilifi County for the year ended 30th June, 2024. Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements of...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to give Notice of the following Motion, which is the variation of Resolution of the Senate on the report of the Committee of Powers and Privileges on the conduct of Sen. Gloria Orwoba, MP.THAT AWARE THAT, on 20th September, 2023, the Senate adopted the Report...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to comment on this statement by Sen. Olekina on the importation of wheat. We have just had our elections and members are about to take over their responsibilities. There must be a proper plan and guidance for the country. Listening to many of...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I do not mind being informed.

Thank you for that additional information. Sen. Olekina, you agree with what I said that, it is beyond Kenya alone to make certain decisions. We know what we are good at. Sen. Olekina, the point I wanted to make is that certain countries such as Tanzania and others, have excess...

Hon. Senators, we may do this procedurally or through consensus. Therefore, three minutes; each speaker speaking for not more than three minutes. Hon. Senators, because we would wish to hear all of you, especially those wishing to speak and looking at the business ahead, I would urge we stick with...

Just one moment, Minority Leader. I have a communication to make. (Laughter) Hon. Senators, I would like to acknowledge the presence in the public gallery this afternoon, visiting teachers and students from Kapkisiara Girls High School in Kericho County. The delegation comprises eight teachers and 103 students, who are in...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I initially wanted to bring to your attention the fact that they were about to leave the public gallery before you acknowledged them. I appreciate the intervention that you took, so that they also feel the presence of being welcomed by their Senator in...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I thank colleagues who have taken time to speak to this matter. Indeed, it is an interesting matter because it is not one that I would have very strong feelings on how a member decides. At the end of the day, I believe an...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, 19th February, 2025- THE SENATE CALENDAR FOR THE FOURTH SESSION OF THE THIRTEENTH PARLIAMENT PUBLIC PARTICIPATION REPORT ON MEDIUM TERM DEBT MANAGEMENT STRATEGY REPORTS OF THE AUDITOR-GENERAL ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for the comfort of Sen. Wambua, I want to allow him to move this Notice of Motion. (Laughter)

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to move the following Motion- RECALLING THAT, the African Union (AU) , the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was launched in 2002 as a continental body consisting of the 55 member states that make up the countries of the...

No, I said I disagree with him.

Intimidated. Okay. You are protected enough. I did not know. I know Sen. Onyonka to be such a strong character that I never thought he would feel---

Please, queue, Sen. Onyonka, because we would wish to hear.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, so as not to attract all these points of order, I will not mention anybody's name. Let me just focus and say why I disagree with those that are telling us --- (Sen. Oketch Gicheru spoke off record)

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Let me say what I am saying, so that you do not waste my time. We, as a leadership, must understand that whatever that was happening is not removed from our reality. Just as you were planning to organize, so that Prime Minister Raila can then go for his election...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could I maybe use a different angle to make my point?

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am really sorry to Sen.Onyonka because it is not my intention to disrupt him. Nonetheless, he is inviting this upon himself by claiming matters that are not factual, which leaves us with no other option than to interrupt and ask him to check his records....

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, Wednesday, 19th February, REPORTS OF THE AUDITOR-GENERAL ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF VARIOUS ENTITIES Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements of the County Assembly of Nairobi City County for the year ended...

This is a further reconstitution of the Standing Committees. I beg to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING, the resolution of the Senate made on 12th February, 2025 on the approval of Senators to serve in various Standing Committees of the Senate, and pursuant to Standing Orders 197,...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move- THAT, NOTWITHSTANDING, the resolution of the Senate made on 12th February, 2025 on the approval of Senators to serve in various Standing Committees of the Senate, and pursuant to Standing Orders 197, 199, 228, and the Fourth Schedule to the Standing Orders,...

procedures. Previously, on any afternoon such as today, a Speaker of Parliament would rise or a Member would move a Motion and say that the House would not be meeting the following day.It was felt that it was important to keep this tradition of determining way in advance the days...

If you were not a candidate in that particular exercise competing with them, the least you can do is to look away if you do not like that particular person. At the very worst, at least just keep quiet. If you are a patriot, take time to celebrate them and...