Khalwale Boni

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise under the Constitution of Kenya to bring to your attention the fact that one of the premier institutions in Kenya, Parliament, is in darkness. We do not know what is happening with Kenya Power (KP) and if there is something wrong with them. We...

Mr. Temporary Chairman, Sir, I support this New Clause, but I am disturbed by Sen. Sifuna’s amendment. This age of experience of 15 years is too many years. Are we not deliberately locking out qualified experienced young people? If to become a judge, you need 10 years, why is he...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, in 1976, a few passengers who were Israeli nationals were kidnapped and landed in Entebbe, Uganda. The Israeli Government, because of the meaning of the life of an Israeli, came to Uganda with the best of the best led by Mr. Jonathan Yoni because an Israeli life...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if it pleases the Senator of Uasin Gishu, I have withdrawn. However, withdrawing does not change the fact; it simply means the fact has been removed on the menu. I am very disturbed when I hear a many of voices on the Minority side pushing the...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. It is just that the distinguished Senator for Nandi County came in at the tail end of my contribution. He would have seen that I did not raise anything substantive about the MP for Kiharu Constituency. I know the rules. Having said that, I...

Asante Bw. Spika wa Muda. Wiki iliyopita nilikuwa nachangia Hoja hii, lakini kwa bahati mbaya nikapitwa na wakati. Ningependa kuendelea na mchango wangu na kukumbusha ndugu zetu kutoka Pwani kwamba sisi tunawaunga mkono kwenye Hoja hii muhimu, pia kwenye kuimarisha sera ya kandanda nchini. Watu wa Pwani wamechangia kwenye umaarufu...

Asante Bw. Spika wa Muda---

Asante Bw. Spika wa Muda, kwa kunionyesha njia. Kwa kupitia tu, ningependa kumkumbusha Seneta wa Migori kwamba kwenye County Public Accounts Committee, tayari ripoti ya Mhasibu Mkuu imeonyesha ya kwamba katika ile enzi ya uongozi ya aliyekuwa Gavana wa Mombasa, hii ni ripoti ya nyumba hii--- (Sen. Oketch Gicheru spoke...

Bw. Spika wa Muda, ningeomba ndugu yangu, Sen. Oketch Gicheru, akumbuke Kanuni za Seneti hii kuwa kabla ripoti ya Muhasibu Mkuu iletwe kwa kamati huwa inawasilishwa hapa. It is tabled halafu ndio inaenda. Hati yoyote ikishawakilishwa hapa inamaanisha sasa iko katika rekodi ya hii Seneti. Kwa hivyo, kila Seneta ako...

Sasa Bw. Spika wa Muda, alijaribu kunikosoa na nikasema ya kwamba ningependa kumsaidia kwa sabubu haelewi mambo ya mpira. Nimesema ya kwamba kabla mchezaji Ouma Chege astaafu alifungia timu yake ya Harambee Stars ambayo ni timu ya Taifa, mabao mengi. Hatuwezi ongea kuhusu Olunga kwa sababu hajastaafu kucheza mpira. Bado...

Inatoka kwenye mtandao ambao huweka rekodi za kitaifa. Nakuomba utafute kwenye Google.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate today, Tuesday, 7th May, 2024- Report of the Auditor-General on Financial Statements of the Yatta Water Services Company Limited for the year ended 30th June, 2023.(Laughter)

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

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sorry to interrupt the proceedings. As you can hear, we are unable to concentrate on debate. There is a lot of picketing outside there and it has been happening every day we sit. I have come to learn that those are doctors demanding to present...

Which things?

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

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I applaud the Senator for Narok for his stand on the plight of patients and doctors in this country. I would like to inform him that it was only this afternoon that I rose on a point of order to draw the attention of...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 53 (1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the status of County Pensions Fund for employees of the Kakamega County Government. In the Statement, the Committee should respond to the...

Sorry, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I was consulting when you mentioned my name. It was not being disrespectful. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the Senate, today, Thursday, 25th April, 2024- Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on its consideration of the Division...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I see the hot consultations. I do not have much to say, but to emphasize this stage in law-making. (Sen. Sifuna spoke off record) Yes, especially for the benefit of young Edwin Sifuna, my brother’s son. I want to laud Members of the National Assembly and...

I am just thanking Members. It has caused farmers a lot of pain. To return the Sugar Board, you have helped farmers in a manner that I can only be allowed to come here with a cockerel from an old woman in Kakamega so that we can partake of the...

Sen. Okiya Omtatah, there being no more time, you should have a balance of 18 minutes when this matter resumes on the Order Paper on Tuesday, next week. Hon. Senators, it is now 6.30 p.m., time to adjourn the Senate. The Senate, therefore, stands adjourned until Tuesday 30th April, 2024,...

Sen. Wambua. (Laughter)

If we will read from this, then we should push counties to pay entrepreneurs. This will open up the economies of all 47 counties, especially if we add a rider that says contracts must be given to local people in a county unless the expertise for doing a particular project...

the National Assembly. In fact, this weekend, they are in Kakamega and they are on the case. The report will come and I will be vindicated.Mr. Speaker, Sir, I say these things because if you go to a place like Kanduyi in Bungoma where Sen. Sifuna comes from, there is...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the Senate today, Wednesday, 24th April, 2024- First Half National Government Budget Implementation Review Report for Financial Year 2023/2024. COUNTY GOVERNMENTS BUDGET IMPLEMENTATION REVIEW REPORT REPORTS OF THE AUDITOR-GENERAL ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF VARIOUS ENTITIES

Yes, it is. The Temporary Chairperson (

Madam Temporary Chairperson, the issues being raised by the Senator for Homa Bay County are real and practical. Allow me to remind the House that the upper and lower western zones produces over 80 per cent of the sugar consumed in this country. If we take the route suggested by...

Asante, Bw. Spika wa Muda. Naomba kuchangia Hoja hii. Kabla sijatoa maoni yangu, namshukuru ndugu yangu, Sen. Faki na aliyemuunga mkono, Sen. Madzayo. Haya maneno ya Mombasa Stadium sio ya kufanyia mchezo. Ujenzi wa uwanja huo ulianza kabla tupate Uhuru katika nchi yetu ya Kenya. Ni jambo la kusikitisha sana...

Alisema hundi. (Laughter)

Bw. Spika wa Muda, naomba wenzangu wanisikize. Endapo mtu ana maoni tofauti, anisahihishe katika mchango wake. Kulingana na sheria za Bunge hili, kuna uhuru wa kuzungumza. Ikiwa tutaua uhuru wa kuzungumza, basi tutaogopa kusema ni nani anayeiba mbolea wakati huu. Wacha niwaambie, mkiua uhuru wa kuzungumza katika Bunge hili--- Kuniradhi,...

Bw. Spika wa Muda, naomba wenzangu wanisikize. Endapo mtu ana maoni tofauti, anisahihishe katika mchango wake. Kulingana na sheria za Bunge hili, kuna uhuru wa kuzungumza. Ikiwa tutaua uhuru wa kuzungumza, basi tutaogopa kusema ni nani anayeiba mbolea wakati huu. Wacha niwaambie, mkiua uhuru wa kuzungumza katika Bunge hili---

Nimekubali (Laughter)

Seneta, tutaendelea na Hoja hii baadaye. Kuna maelekezo ya kwamba, ikifika saa kumi na moja unusu, Sen. Kavindu ana Hoja ya kusoma katika hii Seneti. Sen. Kavindu, nafasi ni yako sasa.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of the Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Budget, I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 56 (1) (b) of the Senate Standing Orders, to make a Statement on the activities of this Committee during the period running from 29th January to...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to congratulate the Cabinet Secretary. It has been long since we last met Madam Cabinet Secretary. I am truly impressed with the professional manner in which you go around discharging your duty as a Cabinet Secretary. It is something the Government really...

Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir. In my capacity and on behalf of the rest of the membership of the House, I congratulate the young people and wish them well going into the future.

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Indeed, we are alive to the fact that we are supposed to vote this afternoon. We have done the usual mobilization, but we do not appear to be attaining the target, including the Mover of the Bill is not in the House. I would...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. If there is one thing that this House should do is to pass this Bill. Even if there are a million amendments that are supposed to be there, this Bill is an admission of how Parliament can fail. In 2013, somebody came with a...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise to second the Conflict of Interest Bill (National Assembly Bills No.12 of 2023) as moved. I will be very brief. I take this House down memory lane. This is not the first time that the matter of conflict of interest is coming...

Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is a request for a Statement on the distribution of fake fertiliser to farmers in various parts of the country and Kakamega in particular. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 53 (1) to seek for this Statement from the Standing Committee on...

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