Khalwale Boni

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I would like to comment on the statement by the Senator for Marsabit in respect of the El Molo community. I was recently in Turkana and saw that El Molo Bay Village has been submerged by water, just like Komothe Primary School. On this statement,...

On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. Sen. Khalwale, what is your point of order? I am rising on a constitutional issue, and now that we have taken the order on Bills, the matter is in respect of the Division of Revenue Bill and the Bill for the...

Madam Temporary Speaker, if you allow me to finish, I do not want to be rude. Can you quickly finish what you are saying here? Yes. These are constitutional issues. They will end up in court, and it will look like all of us do not know what we are...

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the way you are looking at me is like it is a crime to say ‘two-term’. The people who are saying ‘two-term’ are saying they want President Ruto to continue in office and those who are saying ‘one-term’ are saying he has fallen short of performance,...

Sen. Beatrice Ogola, please, proceed. (Loud consultations) Sen. Kajwang’ has spoken to the issue of white elephants. That only one white elephant is running in the tune of Kshs25 billion. It is truly sad that we have wasted Kshs25 billion on the CAIPS. In fact, in Kakamega County, we are...

Sen. Mutinda, please, proceed.

Mr. Deputy Speaker, would you clarify the criteria used to make a decision on which school will be introduced to the plenary and which one will not?Thank you. Mr. Deputy Speaker, would you clarify the criteria used to make a decision on which school will be introduced to the plenary...

(Loud consultations) Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. What is your point of order, Sen. Tabitha?

What is your point of order, Sen. Cherarkey? (Laughter) (Laughter)

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I want to do so, but in a procedural manner. The Member raising the point of order has told all Kenyans who care to listen that he went to Kapsabet High School. The English of “Khalwale is a gynae by medic” does not sound...

I withdraw and apologise, but he consumes that substance. (Laughter)

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker. I was making a very important point and the point is---

Not in any way, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir.

I was wondering how a great school like Kapsabet High School could possibly have ---

Exactly.

Thank you, Cabinet Secretary. (Loud consultations) Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I was almost cut off but I appreciate. Before I ask a question, I want to appreciate the Cabinet Secretary for answering questions well and trying to be calm because sometimes, it is hot in this House. The Cabinet Secretary...

I appreciate that information. It was just out of quick reading of what AI is. When AI came to my attention, I took it negatively because one, that here is a tool that is going to take away jobs and as a defender of the youth and a father of...

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I am sure the Chair did not hear what the distinguished Senator from Vihiga County, Sen. Osotsi, my kid brother said. Karen is not AI-generated. (Laughter) Go ahead and inform him; he has accepted.

Thank you. I just wanted to acknowledge that AI cannot simulate a surgeon because, as a surgeon, when you open the patient, you go in, you start making decisions once the patient is bleeding to death. The moment you operate, you open a patient, you start to kill that patient....

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I heard Sen. Boni calling you, Mr. Speaker. Finally, it is good to note that he can potentially see both genders being equally fit to be equal leaders. It is indeed true that the possibilities of AI are limitless. We have had very serious questions...

Thank you. I just wanted to acknowledge that AI cannot simulate a surgeon because, as a surgeon, when you open the patient, you go in, you start making decisions once the patient is bleeding to death. The moment you operate, you open a patient, you start to kill that patient....

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. In a condensed fashion, the country remembers that in 2003, the biggest change that took place after election was the announcement by President Mwai Kibaki that there shall be free primary education. One million Kenyan children came from nowhere and joined school. That was leadership....

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I stand to mourn the former Senator of Kirinyaga, my brother, friend and colleague in the National Assembly and this Senate for many years. Sen. Karaba joined Parliament in the year of change, 2002, with me on the same day, and we served diligently. He...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I had the honour, in 2011, to join him when he was seeking his re-election in the by-election together with the Hon. Martha Karua. I discovered that Kirinyaga Central is very beautiful. I found that the late Senator, indeed, had his feet on the ground....

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

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

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the matter, currently before the House, is unprecedented in two aspects. I would require that with your indulgence, you guide the House. One, the matter on which the Member has been challenged arose after he raised a valid question to the Cabinet Secretary. Before the Cabinet Secretary...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like, before I ask my question, to invite the Cabinet Secretary to respond to this point that the Senator for Kisumu County has raised. I have traveled widely in this country and nowhere in Kenya do you find a structure like the one...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am concerned purely on a matter of procedure. The Cabinet Secretary has heard the question. He has not been given an opportunity because he is supposed to be informed, that the things the Member of the Senate is alleging are false or not. It...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Sen. Hamida, congratulations for the statement on Nairobi City. I am shocked that sitting in this Senate, a Senator can speak in defence of the leadership of the county of Nairobi today. There is no excuse. Thirty-one people have died, property has been destroyed and...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, we all know that many children arrive home, sometimes at 9.00 p.m. We should be asking ourselves how many children die on that day across the country.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion and I cannot help noting the fact that we have come a long way. I remember when I came to this Parliament in the year 2002, the total revenue collection by Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) was Kshs201 billion only....

On a point of order. What is your point of order? What is so disorderly about Sen. Sifuna? Mr. Speaker, Sir, under Standing Order No.105, the Senator of Nairobi City is referring to a document called MoU. That document has never been tabled in this House. Is it in order...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I take this to be a very big privilege, that the records of Parliament, the HANSARD, will show that when this Bill was being enacted into law, I made a contribution. I believe in culture and in the diversity of the cultures of the people of Kenya...

Apologies, I withdraw that word.

I was using the word “so-called” with reference to the Luhya community which does not have single parents.

Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. Indeed, that is information and I know, the information my distinguished Senator from Embu County is giving me is in the meaning of the Embu and Mbeere community; it is not in the meaning of the Luhya community. We do not have those things amongst...

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

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

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the matter is settled, but as Parliament, we need to reflect on the importance of what is in public domain. A Member of your House was blocked from landing into an international airport in Kenya. You need to reflect that armed goons were waiting for your members....

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

Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, to guide the House, it is our tradition, custom and practice in accordance with Standing Order No.1 (2) that if a Member must discharge the responsibility of another Member, he should submit to the Speaker a written consent from the said Member whom he is representing....