National Assembly · Morning Sitting

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 28, this House approves the Calendar of the National Assembly (Regular Sessions) for the Fifth Session 2026 as contained in the Schedule to the Order Paper.

I do not see any Questions and Statements in the Order Paper. Are there any? I cannot see any. So, we move to the next Order.

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on Bills sponsored by a Committee, the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party be limited as follows: A maximum of 45 minutes for the mover in moving and 15 minutes in replying, a maximum of 30 min…

[(if the Bill is not sponsored by the relevant Committee)]

[(if the Bill is not sponsored by either of them)]

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I second.

[(Question proposed)]

[(Question put and agreed to)]

Next Order.

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on Bills NOT sponsored by a Committee, the Leader of the Majority Party or the Leader of the Minority Party be limited as follows: A maximum of three hours and 30 minutes, with not more than 30 minutes for the mover in movin…

except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, who shall be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes each; and that priority in speaking be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and the Chairperson of the relevant Departmental Committee, in that order. I request the Member for Wundanyi, Hon. Dan Mwashako to second.

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Majority Party. I take this opportunity to second.

[(Question proposed)]

May I put the question?

Yes.

[(Question put and agreed to)]

Next Order.

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on any Motion, including a Special Motion be limited in the following manner: A maximum of three hours with not more than 20 minutes for the mover and 10 minutes for any other Member speaking, except the Leader of the Majori…

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker and the Leader of the Majority Party. I take this opportunity to second the Motion.

[(Question proposed)]

[(Question put and agreed to)]

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in debate on Reports of Audit Committees be limited as follows: A

maximum of sixty (60 minutes for the Mover in moving and thirty (30) minutes in replying, and a maximum of ten (10) minutes for any other Member speaking, except the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party, who shall be limited to a maximum of fifteen (15) minutes each; and that priority be accorded to the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party,…

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I second.

[(Question proposed)]

Put the question!

[(Question put and agreed to)]

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 97 (1) , this House orders that each speech in a debate on Other Committee Reports, including a Report of a Joint Committee of the Houses of Parliament or any other Report submitted to the House for which limitation of time has not been specified, shall be limited as follows: A maximum of…

[(if the Committee Report is not moved by the Chairperson of the relevant Committee)]

Correction, Chelagat Mutai was the Member of Parliament for Eldoret North, which was later represented by the current Head of State. She was therefore from Uasin Gishu County. You may proceed. Nevertheless, I acknowledge that Hon. Cynthia Muge is, indeed, the lioness of Nandi County.

[(Laughter)]

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I sense a whole new debate emerging, but allow me to second this Motion. For the record, I served as a Member of the County Assembly for Chelagat Mutai’s Ward. I know her home and her family, including her late brother, John Mutai, who was the first person in Nandi County to be cremated. I am, therefore, not merely a neighbour; I have a direct connection to the lega…

Please, second the Motion.

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I began with the most important business, to second the Motion as moved by the Leader of the Majority Party. Thank you.

[(Question proposed)]

[(Question put and agreed to)]

Leader of the Majority Party, let me also place this on record. John Mutai was a very senior employee at Shell Kenya. I was among his first interns, and he later served as my chief campaigner in Uasin Gishu County. While their ancestral home may be in Nandi County, they chose to seek election and to vote in Uasin Gishu County. That, therefore, remains my claim to fame. Let us now proceed to the n…

Hon. Deputy Speaker, on a light note, I doubt I would be a neutral arbiter in that battle between Uasin Gishu and Nandi Counties on who hails from whose ancestral land. I cannot be a neutral arbiter because my ancestral land is also in Nandi County. My mother was born in the Kipcham Tea Estate in Nandi Hills. Therefore, I want to recuse myself from being an arbitrator on that matter.

You are hereby duly disqualified.

I definitely cannot be a neutral arbiter in that matter. I have deep interests in Nandi County, being my ancestral home despite having been elected in Kikuyu Constituency in Kiambu County in the Mount Kenya region. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, noting that Standing Order 24 (6) provides that debate on a Motion on the Address by the President shall be limited to not more than four sitt…

The school?

Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. For those who are asking about ‘The School’, there is only one school in Kenya, and that is Alliance High School.

[(Laughter)]

You forgot to start with the title ‘The’ Alliance as the Leader of the Majority Party constantly reminds us. Next Order.

[(Question proposed)]

[(Question put and agreed to)]