Khalwale Boni

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate the young Senator of Bungoma for raising the issue of pending bills. As Sen. Sifuna has said, it is so unfortunate that our former Speaker could hold this House in contempt. I want to appeal to the Governor of Bungoma...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to second this Motion. I strongly request colleagues in this House is to reject the attempt by the National Assembly to reduce the money that was meant for equalization to any other figure. I am talking about the letter and spirit of the Constitution of...

Madam Temporary Speaker, if in the good old days of the Emeritus Speaker, Hon. Ole Kaparo, and I am not casting in any way any aspersions against you, the Senator for Mombasa County would have been thrown out of the House immediately for that remark that there is too much...

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker.

Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.105, to request that the distinguished Sen. Gloria to withdraw her remarks and apologise to the successive governors of Turkana. They have never misused the Equalisation Fund. They do not have that money and that money has never been disbursed. Consequently,...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Indeed, it is a privilege for me that these children are here with us today. This is the first time we are receiving any delegation from Kakamega, Bungoma, Trans Nzoia, Vihiga or Busia. So, young people, I will just use this opportunity to remind you...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No.56 (1) (a) of the Senate Standing Orders to make a Statement regarding the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget consideration of the Speaker's Communication on the report of the Senate nominee, on behalf of the county governments, to...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, on behalf of the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the Senate nominees, on behalf of the county governments, to the position...

Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. There was so much consultation at the beginning, but I started by moving the Motion. I said that I beg to move the following Motion- THAT the Senate adopts the report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget of the Senate, on the Senate nominees...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am moving it. My time is still on. I was just--- Okay. Call upon your Seconder, kindly. So, Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those many remarks, I request the young Senator, who is one of the youngest Members in the House, Sen. Orwoba, to second my Motion....

On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, what is your point of order? Madam Temporary Speaker, I have been listening to your guidance. I need further clarification on your comment on Sen. Orwoba and Sen. Cherarkey. A certified version of this ReportIn view of the centrality...

A certified version of this Report approached the issue of how to handle the great tribes of Kenya was the constitutional requirement of regional balancing as to how much one was getting for academic endowment. If you had a Bachelor's degree, you scored less than Master's degree and so on,...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to associate myself with the sentiments and concerns by colleague Senators that they want the full report. There is no way you can debate a decision of a committee of Parliament without proper information being availed to you as a Senator...

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Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, this is what I wanted to say substantively. The Report of the Committee is here. It is complete. It has the candidates’ documents and annexes of everything. The only problem is that the Clerk did not circulate.

A certified version of this Report A certified version of this Report Mr. Temporary Speaker, before I conclude my response, I have received a gracious request from my daughter here, Sen. Nyamu. I will give her two minutes to make her comment.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, she was threatening to impeach me and I got scared.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I was just congratulating my colleague in the profession. I am glad that a man who has been forced to act for five years is finally getting the job. I believe, had he not been acting, the crisis that the country went through in...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to seek your clarification on a matter of procedure. Mr. Speaker, Sir, under Article 96 (1) of the Constitution, I, Dr. Boni Khalwale, represents the County of Kakamega and I serve to protect the interests of the County of Kakamega and the County...

Mr. Speaker, Sir. Yes, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale. Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a very important order. Probably, with due respect, you need to convene a kamkunji, so that we prevail upon ourselves, that before this business starts, we must have the 45 Members. Mr. Speaker, Sir, having served you as...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Very briefly, may I warmly welcome the young Kenyans to this House and remind them that on the 25th of last month, some of the members of their generation who are in college, so much wanted to come to this House that they literally broke...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill. In support of this Bill, I will speak to five very brief points. The first one is the policy of land tenure in this country. We have to rethink it as a nation because the tenure we have...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Every time we deal with petitions in this House, it gives me hope that the Constitution of Kenya 2010 is the solution to the future challenges in this country. Mr. Speaker, Sir, if this House goes on and adopts this report, it will go down...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, yes, I would wish to be informed by the Senior Counsel.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank the Senator of Nyamira for that piece of information. However, I would also like to urge him to read the report in Bullet No.67. Senator of Nyamira, I want the people of Nyamira to understand me very well. They are my in-laws. It says- “The...

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sorry that I am interrupting the Senator for Nyamira County. However, under Standing Order No.105, could the Senator table evidence and substantiate that the names of the residents of this region were forwarded to ODM headquarters and they were denied their political rights? That...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The importance of this particular report is such that I was expecting the entire House to be here. We are talking about the mother of oversight. There can be no oversight without the CPAC and the CPICSF. Using very strong words, I congratulate this...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, that is a housekeeping issue that I will leave to the Chairman to manage. As far as the House is concerned, this is their Report. It is not a report of a subcommittee. Therefore, I would have wanted to know the reason other Members did not...

Yes, I would like him to inform me, especially in view of the accolades that I gave him at the beginning of my presentation.

Thank you. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, be so. He has informed you after informing me. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, having congratulated the Committee for flagging out and resolving the issue of fixed assets, there is something I want to say about fixed assets. Mr. Chairman, try and put further pressure...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I have heard you. Like the Senate Majority Leader/Senate Minority Leader/the Leader of Broad-Based--- (Laughter)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I never knew that the County Assembly of Kakamega can have a better Personal Assistant (PA) than the Senate. On behalf of the Senate Majority Leader, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of Senate, Today, 31st July, 2024- LEGAL NOTICES FOR...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue raised by the Deputy Speaker is very serious. There was no Motion, whatsoever, before that judge to give him an opportunity to make this wild order. He did it on his own volition. In so doing, he also made a pronouncement inconsistent with the Constitution....

Mr. Speaker, Sir, my second and last comment is on the matter raised by the Senator for Kisii. As mentioned by the Senator for Vihiga, Shanta Gold Limited Company is a big joke and the Ministry of Mining, Blue Economy and Maritime Affairs must up its game.Shanta Gold Limited Company...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, Shanta Gold has been in Ikolomani for those 15 years. They are pretending and being allowed to be seen as carrying out exploration, when they are gutting away billions of shillings meant for the people of Kakamega. This must be stopped. I was running on time to...

On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, pursuant to Standing Order No. 110 (1) , I beg to move the debate on the Land (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.40 of 2022) to be now adjourned. This is because we are talking about land which is important, and emotive. So far, we have...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is a privilege for me to welcome the young women from Namibia. I am truly impressed. African women are coming of age. The delegation is composed of women only. It is so nice. Kenyans must learn from this. Mr. Speaker, Sir, these are very...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Pursuant to Standing Order No.53 (1) , I rise to seek a statement from the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget in respect of the non-use of the 50 cent coins and the one shilling coins in trading activities in this country. In the statement,...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for that ruling, but I would like to request you to make a clarification. Kenya is becoming more and more transparent. Gen Z would like to know that the reason why there was confusion is that some of the people wanted to...

Madam Temporary Speaker, may I seek a clarification? Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, what is the clarification? Madam Temporary Speaker, the clarification I seek is that, that being the case, it means even before we take the vote, we must have at least 45 delegations in the House. Since there are no...

Madam Temporary Speaker, consequence to that finding, it then makes a very substantive pronouncement on the outcome to the extent that a Motion that had sailed has now been negatived. Can you please clarify whether it is, therefore, not necessary that we vote again? (Loud consultations)

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) , I hereby present the Business of this Senate for the week commencing Tuesday, 30th, July 2024. The status of the legislative business before the Senate is as follows- Forty-nine Bills are pending conclusion in the Senate, of which...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the Chairman of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget, I wish to give notice of the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the Senate nominees, on behalf of the county...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I beg to move- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the Senate nominees, on behalf of the county governments, to the position of Member of the Salaries and Remuneration Commission, laid on the Table of the...

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

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Senator for Nyamira for this opportunity to inform him and he should not fear. If I was to inform anybody about what he alluded to, it would be to Sen. Gloria Orwoba. She is the one who was harbouring hopes of...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for a good reason, this Bill has generated a lot of interest and I thank Members for demonstrating that. I assure them that whereas this is my brainchild, the Bill is ours because none of us is not affected by its provisions. I beg that we...

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Thank you, I appreciate that. I remember some of our colleagues used to make us, Members from Busia, Kakamega, Vihiga and Bungoma, a laughing stock because we used bicycles to carry people. In 2004, President Mwai Kibaki, in his legendary simplicity, zero-rated importation of motorbikes. So, people migrated from bicycles...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to lay on this Table, today, 23rd July, 2024, the Paper from the Committee on Finance and Budget, being a report of this Standing Committee on the nominee by the Senate, on behalf of county governments, to the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) ....

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Time truly moves. When the new Constitution was promulgated in 2010, one of the most exciting provisions was Article 10 that provided for national values. It specifically speaks to the values of human dignity, equity, social justice, inclusivity, equality, non-discrimination and protection of the marginalised....

Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank the Senate Majority Leader for the Statement. Whereas I have the latitude to seek clarification from him through other means, but because he has made what concerns me in public, it is fair that I seek that clarification. He has said that the County...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all stood there and swore to uphold and defend the Constitution and, therefore, the rule of law. I do not have to remind any colleague here, because it is clear how a Bill becomes law. If after 14 days no communication came from you that the...