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Feb 20 21 tweets 5 min read
Division of the #Affordable Housing Bill 2023 that is currently in the second reading. Votes are as follows:

1. Hon. Samuel Chepkonga - YES
2. Hon. Benjamin Kipkirui - YES
3. Hon. Marianne Kitany - YES
4. Hon. Samuel Atandi - NO
5. Hon. Walter Owino - NO
6. Hon. Irene Njoki - YES

#BungeLiveNAImage 7. Hon. Joshua Kandie - YES
8. Hon. Makilap Kipkoros - YES
9. Hon. Nelson Koech - YES
10. Hon. Alfah Miruka Ondieki - YES
11. Hon. Linet Chepkorir - YES
12. Hon. Patrick Kibagendi - NO
13. Hon. Raphael Wanjala - NO
14. Hon. Jack Wamboka - NO
15. Hon. Kibet Kirui - YES
16. Hon. Catherine Omanyo - NO
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Nov 16, 2023 18 tweets 6 min read
The National Assembly is currently in the Committee of Supply considering Supplementary Estimates I of Recurrent and Development Expenditure for the year ending 30th June, 2024.

A breakdown of the figures under this thread. #BungeLiveNA Image The Executive:
- Office of the President
- Office of the Deputy President
- State Department for Parliamentary Affairs
- State Department for Performance and Delivery Management
- State Department for Cabinet Affairs
- State House
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Oct 5, 2023 9 tweets 2 min read
I have been on the list of shame of those Members of Parliament that have never spoken. I take this opportunity to apologize to the people of Lamu for putting them on the papers for the wrong reasons. - @MuthoniMarubu #BungeLiveNA Image I happen to be those students who happen to be very average. I start very slowly. I remember when I went to primary school, I scored 258/500. I went to Lamu Gorls High School and I made it a B and I went to university, I graduated with first class honours. - @MuthoniMarubu
Aug 10, 2023 13 tweets 4 min read
Hon. Shakila Mohamed moves a motion on the adoption of a report by the Committee on Powers and Privileges on an inquiry on its own motion into conduct of Senator Gloria Orwoba and to establish if the conduct constituted breach of Parliamentary privilege laid on the table of the… https://t.co/fOxBQZdYymtwitter.com/i/web/status/1…

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Conduct constituted breach of privilege under Section 16 (e) and Paragraph 7(a) of the 4th Schedule in the Parliamentary Power and Privileges Act 2017. - Sen. Shakila Mohamed #BungeLiveSEN
Jun 14, 2023 36 tweets 14 min read
Division on the Finance Bill 2023 that is currently in second reading. #BungeLiveNA Image Votes are as follows:

1. Hon Samuel Chepkonga - YES
2. Hon. Samuel Atandi - NO
3. Hon. John Walter Owino (ABSENT)
4. Hon. Irene Njoki - YES
5. Hon. Florence Jematia - YES
6. Hon. Joshua Kandie - YES
7. Hon. Joseph Kipkoros - YES
8. Hon. Charles Kamuren - YES… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
I am actually surprised that after they've won the election, the "ground" does not seem to matter and those people don't seem to matter. I just want to warn them that if you don't listen to the ground right now, kitawaramba when the time actually comes. - @Lesuuda #BungeLiveNA Image I want to tell the same hustlers who have been forgotten that once the 16% fuel levy is increased, they will really feel the pinch because the cost of living will actually go up and even the cost of manufacturing will go up. - @Lesuuda #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 9 tweets 5 min read
For seven years we've been kicking the can of taxation down the road hoping that the next dispensation shall solve the problems we're causing. - @KiarieJohn #BungeLiveNA Image This Finance Bill that has been adjudicated in the court of public opinion has been laden with a lot of misinformation. People have been going to tv stations, funerals and meetings in their constituencies prosecuting matters that are not even in the Finance Bill. - @KiarieJohntwitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
We didn't take an oath to lie, we took an oath to defend the Constitution. The first thing I looked at when I read the report of the committee was to look at the submissions. I am aware of KUPPET, KNUT, from other people including farmers in my constituency. They're not attached.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image The people of Kenya have spoken in public forums and said this Finance Bill is oppressive. As a Parliament we're left with one thing to do...to relook at it and say this one wamekataa, can we give them what they want. - Hon. Nabii Nabwera #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
For the welfare of the society and the just government of the people, I rise to oppose. - @hon_wamuchomba #BungeLiveNA Image For the welfare of the people of Kenya that qualifies them to eat well, eat three meals a day...that is the way to make the welfare of our people better. - @hon_wamuchomba #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
We need to look at the basics. Kenyans do not have food, we're telling them how to house them. While defending this, the other side has spent a lot of time trying to tell us that this is an opportunity to create jobs for the youth. - @CGisairo #BungeLiveNA Image Can you tell us exactly what this levy is? Is it a job creation levy or a housing levy? We've changed it from a contribution to a levy, moved it from a provision where after 7 years, the contributors had a way out or to stay in clause - @CGisairo #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
That 16% fuel levy is the poison chalice that is in this #FinanceBill2023, Mr Speaker. Once we implement the 16% on fuel levy, everything else we go up in this country. Let us not hide ourselves or close our eyes to reality. - @JunetMohamed #BungeLiveNA Image Let us not accept. I'm told the proposal might be from IMF, from where...let us not care. This House must stand together and must stand with the people of Kenya because we must make life bearable for them. That is our work, that is why they elected us. -@JunetMohamed #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
This is one of the Finance Bills that have been vilified more than any other Bill in the history of our legislative processes in this House. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA But the vilification has been informed by misinformation, a lot of propaganda, a lot of insinuations and disinformation of things that are not even in the Bill. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 4 min read
It is stupid, in fact I don't know how I can describe to beat a man for doing what yourself proposed. The other side proposed this housing levy, now it's being implemented. - @David_Ouma #BungeLiveNA Image The issue with the other side is not that they don't like housing, the issue they have is that someone else implementing it. If they were the ones implementing this today, they would be asking us to support it. - @David_Ouma #BungeLiveNA Image
Jun 14, 2023 6 tweets 4 min read
On the issue of housing levy, let me put it on record that this is one of those areas where the public collective is more important that the individual collective. - @CaroliOmondi #BungeLiveNA Image There are many areas where generally the public have to pull together to realise what is called the public good such as in medical insurance and the housing scheme. - @CaroliOmondi #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Sen. @MutindaMunene moves that the Agricultural And Livestock Extension Services Bill (Senate Bills No. 12 Of 2022) be read a second time. #BungeLiveSEN Image The key objectives of the Bill are to foster coordination and collaboration in extension services research among the county government and national government . ~ Sen. @MutindaMunene #BungeLiveSEN.
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
The Coast region where I come from is known for cement manufacturing. This cement industry has for a long time stifled because of imported cement. - Hon. Owen Baya #BungeLiveNA A lot of the Chinese have built these roads through imported cement and yet this country has the capacity to produce cement, employ many people and use the local resources to create wealth for this country. - Hon. Owen Baya #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 6 tweets 3 min read
On the affordable housing...I want to highlight a few issues that have been brought by my colleagues. Some have cited insensitivity to Kenyans. Is creating jobs being insensitive to Kenyans? - Hon. John Mutunga #BungeLiveNA Image Is employing the six million or so youth who are looking for jobs for four or five years being insensitive to Kenyans? Is spreading the little that we have to all others being insensitive to Kenyans? - Hon. John Mutunga #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Sen. @BeatriceOyomo seeks a statement from the Standing Committee on Land, Environment and Natural Resources regarding the state of rehabilitation works and water supply restoration from Ndhiwa borehole. #BungeLiveSEN. Image The Committee should:
1. State when the broken down system will be repaired, stating when the supply of water from the Ndhiwa borehole will resume. #BungeLiveSEN.
Jun 14, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
Sen. @KBonimtetezi lays the following papers:

1. Report of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of the Rumuruti Municipality – County Government of Laikipia for the year ended 30th June, 2020. #BungeLiveSEN. Image 2. Report of the Auditor-General on the financial statements of the Rumuruti Municipality – County Government of Laikipia for the year ended 30th June, 2021. #BungeLiveSEN.
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Petition regarding punitive charges levied by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA).

My office has received a petition from Hon. Francis Ngunga, the MCA for Mua Ward in Machakos calling for consolidation of licenses issued by KENHA as well comprehensive review of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image The petitioner is aggrieved by KENHA's issuance of exemption permits and licenses for the transport of abnormal loads that include road construction equipment as well as other over dimensional or heavy cargo. - @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Today, if we were given this Bill and none of us were a member of this House, I can assure you none of us could have passed this Bill. - @FatumaJehowMP #BungeLiveNA Image I'd like to ask the chair of the committee, have you given us the timeline of this proposed affordable housing? What is the budget? How many Kenyans are going to occupy these 50,000 houses out of the 50 million Kenyans we have. - @FatumaJehowMP #BungeLiveNA