National Assembly · Afternoon Sitting

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Hon. Abubakar Talib. Next Order!

Hon. Members, I wish to welcome you back to the House following the swearing-in, induction and the official opening. It is my hope that the events have been beneficial and enriching to your knowledge of the House and its workings as we commence the business of the 13th Parliament. As you are aware, and for the benefit of the new Members, the period before the approval of the Cabinet and the forma…

House and is therefore somewhat relaxed. This is attributable to less business emanating from the Executive or Committees for consideration by the House. Once the Cabinet and the Principal Secretaries are fully in place, the Calendar of the House becomes crowded with majority and minority party businesses. Hon. Members, I also wish to bring to the attention of the House that, going by our practic…

hesitate to move this House to exempt the said Bills from pre-publication scrutiny so as to ensure that the Bills proceed without undue delay. Hon. Members, you will also recall that before the adjournment of the 12th Parliament, as I had noted in my acceptance speech, the House made progressive amendments to the rules of this House, amongst them being the new Standing Order 114 (7A) which prescr…

Hon. Members, as you are aware, today is the First Sitting of the House following the Official Opening of the 13th Parliament last week. By practice, the first business of the House at the beginning of each Session is the formation of the House Business Committee. Subsequently, the Committee, once constituted, proceeds to determine and set up the business of the House. The next set of Business tha…

Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House:

Thank you, Deputy Speaker. Hon. Members, order.

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. I want you to give us direction. It looks like most of these legal notices are of the previous administration.

Order, Hon. Duale. You are jumping the gun. I have a communication on the matter. You can intervene after my communication.

Hon. Members, I have a short Communication on Statutory Instruments submitted between 4th June 2022 and 4th October 2022. As you may have noticed, a few minutes ago, the Deputy Speaker laid before the House 18 Statutory Instruments. Some of the Statutory Instruments, commonly referred to as Regulations, were submitted during the sine die recess of the 12th Parliament while others were submitted j…

[(No.23 of 2013)]

The consideration of the different Regulations will now await the establishment of the

Yes, Hon. Speaker.

Order, Hon. Members. We will now go back to the Order.

Hon. Speaker, I beg to give a notice of the following Motion: THAT, the thanks of the House be recorded for the exposition of the Public Policy contained in the address of the President delivered on Thursday, 29th September 2022.

Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion:

THAT, noting that Standing Order 24 (6) provides that the debate on the Motion on the Address by the President shall be limited to not more than four sittings, and pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1), this House orders that the debate on the Motion on the Address by His Excellency the President under Article 132 (1) (a) of the Constitution delivered on the 29th September 2022 on th…

Who is seconding the Motion? Hon. Makali Mulu.

Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to second this important Motion but before I do so, I want to quote your Statement. Since there is no doubt who the Member for Kitui Central is, I take this opportunity to thank my people, before I second this Motion. This is the first time I am getting the opportunity to speak in the 13th Parliament. The people of Kitui Central ar…

This Motion is very important. I am seconding it because it will give the House the opportunity to look at the proposed policies and legal frameworks by the new Government. They said that they would come to this Parliament with some amendments to the law. It gives the new Members an opportunity to make their maiden speeches. Hon. Speaker, the reason as to why I strongly support the issue of ten m…

On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Order, Hon. Makali. Yes, Hon. Pukose. Give Hon. Pukose the microphone.

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I stand on a point of order on anticipation of debate. The Hon. Makali Mulu is already debating. He is not being relevant to what he is supposed to second. He is already debating a Motion that is not yet before the House. I think he should stick with relevance.

Hon. Makali, you are seconding a Motion as to whether the times set out are the times we should abide by.

Hon. Speaker, I have been in this House long enough to know what needs to be done to a Motion like this one. What we are saying is that debate time will come but there is no way you can expect me to just second a Motion by saying I second. You know, Hon. Pukose is known for saying “put the question”.

[(Laughter)]

Put the question!

Put the question!

[(Laughter)]

Is that the mood of the House?

Yes.

Hon. Members, there being no interest in debating this Procedural Motion, I now put the question.

[(Question put and agreed to)]