Khalwale Boni

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I understand the import of the Statement by the Hon. Sen. Methu and the difficulty you would have if you were to accept my request, being that, given who J.M. was, and given that this is 50 years later, and given that J.M. spoke in this House,...

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

Mr. Speaker, Sir, keeping with my calling as the Senate Majority Whip, I wish to appeal to you to allow me to briefly move a small Procedural Motion regarding the issue of the Chair. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion- THAT, pursuant to Standing Order...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to join the Senator of Nyandarua County, the family of Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, his friends and relatives in celebrating the 50th anniversary of his passing on. As I do so, I would like to affirm that we have a unique opportunity as Government to...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Allow me to request the Cabinet Secretary to take our greetings and our appreciation to the General for their professionalism and discipline as a unit of security in this country. Having said that, I am a little bit apprehensive listening to you and reading the...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of this Senate today, Tuesday, 18th March, 2025- THE SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, LEGAL NOTICE NO.55 OF 2025 THE SOCIAL HEALTH INSURANCE (TARIFFS FOR HEALTHCARE SERVICES) REGULATIONS, LEGAL NOTICE NO.56 OF 2025 COB REPORT ON NATIONAL...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. As I welcome the young people to this House, whom I hope will have an opportunity to serve in the coming days, let me celebrate with them the rich leadership that has traditionally come from Bomet. I remember when we started devolution in 2013, the...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I had the opportunity last week to discharge the duties that you are giving me now. It must be understood that those are workers of the Universal Healthcare, who happen to share the same professional background with me, albeit at different levels. It would look a bit...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg that I be disqualified.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg to move- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the 2025 Medium Term Debt Management Strategy, laid on the Table of the Senate on Wednesday, 12th March, 2025. As the Senate adopts the Report...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a Statement by the Senate Majority Leader on the business of the Senate for the week commencing Tuesday, 18th March, 2025, pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) . Pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) , I hereby present the business for the week commencing Tuesday,...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to quickly congratulate Prof. Tom Ojienda. I had thought his thinking is limited to law, but I can see he appreciates business. Considering the issues he has raised on the SGR, the Parliament of Kenya and SGR must put pressure on the Executive...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to second this Motion. Before I do so, I beg you to allow me. This Chairman who has just moved the Motion, Sen. Eddy Oketch there, Sen. Abdalla, Sen. Okenyuri, Sen. Mariam and myself have spent a lot of time, painstakingly listening to all commissions,...

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

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to inform the distinguished Senator for Migori because I can hear him daring and begging the President and the former Prime Minister. That is the beginning of where we get it wrong. The solution lies in this Parliament. For your information, the Chairman of...

On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Yes, Sen. Boni. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I noted that the Cabinet Secretary has acknowledged that he is new. Limb (a) is the foundation of the Question. Therefore, the fairest you can give him is for him to go back and come up...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following papers on the Table of this Senate, today March 12th in the year of our Lord 2025- The Water Services Regulations, Legal Notice No.54 of 2025; The Water Harvesting and Storage Regulations, Legal Notice No. 57 of 2025. The Water Resources...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to ride on the Statement by Sen. Kavindu, the Senator for Machakos County. When Kenyans who are suspects in drug trafficking are arrested, it is important that the Government of Kenya should do everything possible to ensure that they are given a fair trial and...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. To me, seconding this Motion is very significant. I believe if the recommendations of the Committee that sat on the NADCO were to go through, there would be momentous change in the way we practise politics, govern the country and live. I, therefore, want to...

Secondly, the people from special groups, like People with Disabilities (PwDs). I do not know how they get nominated. We should allow PWDs to be the principal decision makers and subject the beneficiaries to a vote.Finally, on this particular point, the people who get through these special seats, the 47...

Yes, I would like him to inform me.

I think you guys call it in good English, sanitary towels. My daughter is seated there at the Clerk’s Desk. She normally teaches me good English. That cannot be the case because it is a lie. So, we need to audit these people.When Hon. Gladys Wanga was a Women Representative,...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I rise under Standing Order No.105, not to interrupt the distinguished Senator, but to briefly point out that, this is a learning process for me and maybe quite a number of Kenyans. I, therefore, would like you to just use facts to inform me,...

The facts. I want the facts.

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I beg that you do not throw me out. I was being clever to see if I could get slightly more. Do not throw me out. I want to hear more from him.

Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I second. (Question, that debate on the Motion be now adjourned, put and agreed to)

Culture was the backbone of yesterday’s Bill and, therefore, this particular Bill augments the legislative process that is contained in the establishment of a museum. Look at it this way; if you go to Bomet, and you spend a lot of money putting up the museum, you can house the...

Report of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the 2025 Budget Policy Statement; andReport of the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget on the 2025 Medium- Term Debt Management Strategy. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to give Notice of the following two Motions- NOTICES OF MOTIONS Mr....

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. It is an honour for me to acknowledge the presence of our colleagues from Zambia in this House. I do welcome you warmly, Hon. Members. Kenya and Zambia have been one and the same from the early 1960s. I recall in 1963 - so we...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue raised by the Senator for Marsabit, Sen. Said Mohamed Chute, is very important. It speaks to a pandemic in this country where projects started by the first-generation governors have stalled. The hospital in Sololo has taken seven years, but it is just still lying there....

Madam Temporary Speaker, it is a pleasure for me to welcome the young people from Kirinyaga to this Senate this afternoon. I do so because they do not know us well. Young people, you will be interested to know that when I was a young doctor over 30 years ago,...

Thank you, Sen. Omogeni. It is also possible that a student can teach a teacher. I cannot teach a teacher, but since I am your teacher on parliamentary practice, I stand corrected. Madam Temporary Speaker, I did not realize what I had done. If you heard me at the end,...

Madam Temporary Speaker, I hear the concerns of the Senator for Laikipia and if I am old-fashioned, I should be forgiven. I am very confused with the system of education that we have in the country. I actually do not know. I have no idea what this thing called Competency...

On a point of information, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Who do you want to inform? The Senator of Bungoma. Why are you informing him now and he was just reading a Statement? You can just interrogate that statement at the Committee level. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it will help the...

On the Statements? Yes. You said less than three minutes. You said five minutes for the leadership. No. One from either side. You are now eating into your three minutes. Can you kindly organise yourself? Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Sen. Sifuna is a Deputy Whip. He is representing the Minority...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, clearly for my brother, my friend, my colleague, Waziri Mbadi, the shoe is clearly on the other foot. That is very clear. Just riding on what Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is trying to ask, can Parliament, this Senate, your Senate that you preside over, legislate in vain? Is...

No, I was asking for interpretation.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wanted you to guide us.

Thank you.

Mr. Speaker, Sir, our brother, Hon. Mbadi, is an experienced parliamentarian and he knows that Parliament does not speak in vain. I leave that to his conscience. The former councilors of Nandi, Uasin Gishu and Kakamega counties came to see me, formally. They told me that the President had met...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to ask Question No. 25, as indicated on the order paper. Allow me to congratulate the Cabinet Secretary for the candid manner in which he has handled this matter of gross national importance. [The Speaker (Hon. Kingi) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker...

Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I am satisfied with the answer that has been given by the Cabinet Secretary. I regret on behalf of the people of Kakamega, Mombasa, Nakuru, Kilifi and Isiolo counties that Kshs1.1 billion, which was earmarked for promoting accountability in delivery of services in those...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of this Senate; today, the 27th February, 2025. Report of the Auditor General on Financial Statements of the County Executive of Isiolo for the year ended 30th June, 2024; Report of the Auditor General on Financial Statements...

Yes.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to represent the Leader of the Majority, on the Statement by the Senate Majority Leader on the business of the Senate for the commencing 4th March, 2025, pursuant to Standing Order No.57 (1) . Mr. Speaker, Sir, the legislative business pending before the...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to laud Sen. Chute. This is a sad occurrence. As a medical expert, I can confirm to the nation that the breakout of Kala-azar is a symptom of a failed state. Kala-azar, otherwise known as Black Fever or Leishmaniasis, is a tropical illness...

Mr. Speaker, Sir, indeed, the Chairperson of the Committee on Health is right. I should swallow my words on failed states and say a failed county compared to failed states like South Sudan and Sudan. I am professional on this matter and authoritative because these sand flies bite the patient,...

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

that we demonstrate respect for life and those who are still in the field, we should honour this man with one minute of silence. that we demonstrate respect for life and those who are still in the field, we should honour this man with one minute of silence.

I was bringing it to your attention. It is very sad. If we had more time to intervene in these Statements, I would have asked the Government not only to underwrite the cost as long---

I would have asked for full compensation

I request two things. One, if you allow, request the House to observe one minute of silence.

Na ile ya pili?

Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir.

There is a matter raised by Sen. Cherarkey about employees of Kenya Airways (KQ). Again, we must put the Ministry under pressure. I remember not so long ago, the Speaker of the National Assembly, Hon. Wetangula, was held at the airport for 45 minutes because they insisted that he must...