OLUOCH, ANTHONY TOM

Right now? Yes, right now. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I welcome to this House the directors, teachers and school heads of APBET. The Committee of the whole House proceedings in respect of a Bill we will be engaging in today is a brain child of these directors and teachers....

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I rise to request a Statement regarding increasing cases of abduction and missing persons in Mathare Constituency. I hasten to say that this has nothing to do with the 25th June demonstrations. I need to make it clear that these are people who have gone missing under...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, this morning, I am a very embarrassed Member of this House. Extremely embarrassed. This Bill is not just coming for the first time. I prosecuted and brought this Bill in the 12th Parliament. It is not out of idle concern that this Bill came. The Bill concerns...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairman. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : What is your point of order, Hon. Anthony Oluoch? Hon. Temporary Chairman, I request the Member who is proposing amendments that, for purposes of the record and for enriching the lawmaking process, could she highlight...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I have been stepping in for Hon. Millie to encourage Hon. Umulkher. She is doing very well. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : Give me a moment, Hon. Oluoch. Let me propose the question first and then you can contribute. (Question, that the new clause be...

I rarely interrupt my Whip but the Standing Orders require that one concludes debate in the language they start with. May Hon. Millie Odhiambo conclude in the manner she began? This being an official language, please proceed in the manner you started. (Laughter)

Hon. Temporary Chairman, as I support this proposed amendment, especially the part where the regulations will be required, I encourage the co-sponsors to move with speed so that we can iron out some of the issues that the Deputy Leader of the Majority Party raised and some of the emerging...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, I would like to ask the Member whether he is proposing recommittal. I expected you to say that you are moving an amendment to drop this provision and then you recommit it, so that the text can be revised to place some matters in a Schedule and...

I am persuaded by what Hon. Millie has said for one other reason and I will give an example. I have moved an amendment for the Basic Education Act for alternative provisions of basic education schools in informal settlements and this category has perpetually been discriminated because they were operating...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, it will be entirely at the discretion of the two co-sponsors of the Bill to either drop or retain the amendment. Sign language, which underpins the Bill, is a cross-cutting issue. It can fall under education, since it mainly affects learners in schools, but it also affects...

I want Hon. Baya to listen because he may need to respond.

Thank you. When a Member raises a question that a Bill introduces amendments that fundamentally change the character of the Bill, that issue needs to be raised not at the recommittal stage, when we have already called for reporting. He needed to have raised a substantive question for determination by...

I am a sponsor.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to move that the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No.53 of 2024) , be now read a Second Time. Hon. Temporary Speaker and Hon. Members, the purpose of this Bill is to amend the Penal Code by repealing the provisions of...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. First, I would like to thank all the Members who showed up, contributed, and provided useful insights that I will carry forward to improve the Bill and possibly make amendments in the Committee of the whole House. Allow me to briefly retrace the journey of...

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, 2025. Read it in full, as it appears on the Order Paper, for the record. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Basic Education (Amendment) Bill, (National Assembly Bill No. 3 of 2025) be now read...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to second the Report on the Draft Salaries and Remuneration Commission (Remuneration and Benefits of State and other Public Officers) Regulations, 2025. The purpose of these Regulations, as highlighted ably by the Chairperson, was to facilitate achievement of fiscally transparent, fair, and harmonised...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to highlight some of the things that need to be known about Mama Ida. She is not only a mother of her four children but also the mother of the nation. We have had three First Ladies, but only one is known as “Min...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, even though I am fully aware that the proposed reservations by the President would carry the day by a simple majority, it is important to note the implications to the right to property under Article 40 of the Constitution and the potential abuse this could have for...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I want to thank you….

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for allowing us the latitude to speak on this very emotive matter. While I have absolutely no problem with Hon. Baya, and why we need to extend the time to deal with historical injustice- -- Land injustices. Yes, historical land injustices. My problem would be...

I thank you. This is my very last point. We must also look at the constitutionality of this in respect of what you call the retrospective or retroactive application of the law. How do you pass a law today to take back the rights that have been accrued 20 to...

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Oluoch, what was your point? Thank you, Hon. Speaker. While my daughter is not stranded there, as a parent, I was asked to pay Ksh23,000 for my child to participate in the Kenya Music Festivals. This is a confirmation that there is...

Yes. So that we frame issues for the Cabinet Secretary as he comes tomorrow, can we know exactly how much of the capitation money per student, that we allocate every year, is hived off to go to the sub-county directors? How much, cumulatively, was it for the Financial Year 2024/2025,...