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"content": "We go back to Order No.2. Hon. Wandayi you want me to hear you first. I give you two minutes. Okay, make it two minutes."
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"speaker_name": "Ugunja, ODM",
"speaker_title": "Hon. Opiyo Wandayi",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, actually I rose on a point of order under Standing Order 142, together with Article 110, Sub-Article 4 of the Constitution. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "This is basically concerning concurrence of both Houses on Bills that concern counties. Hon. Speaker both the Standing Orders and the Constitution are silent on how long a Bill can take in one particular House; a Bill that requires concurrence of both Houses once referred to the other House. I am specifically referring to the Sugar Bill which we processed in this House late last year. It is a Bill that was sponsored by Hon. Emmanuel Wangwe that also attracted a lot of public interest especially in the Western Kenya region. This is now March, and April is approaching, and we have not seen any indication that the Bill has been brought back, either with or without amendments from the Senate. So, I am not sure how you will guide this but I would really like to plead with you to perhaps use your good office to impress upon the other House to fast-track the Bill. This is because, I was in the village last weekend and the issue of sugar is very emotive. Everywhere we go we are asked: “Where is the Sugar Bill?” On the same note as I conclude in one minute, Hon. Speaker, I know a lot of processes are underway in terms of leasing out the sugar farms, the public sugar mills. Hon. Speaker, you and I know that Miwani Sugar Company was exempted from this process, but as we speak the sugar company is idle and the community around it is suffering. How I wish you would use your good office to perhaps impress upon the President in the same manner he acted on the Mumias case that the court cases around Miwani Sugar Company be withdrawn and an out-of-court settlement be arrived at so that the community can benefit from the Miwani Sugar facility."
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"content": "Thank you. You have made your point. Hon. Owen Baya, is it on the same issue?"
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"content": " Yes."
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"content": "Go ahead."
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"speaker_name": "Kilifi North, UDA",
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"content": " Hon. Speaker, the Hon. Leader of Minority Party raises a very fundamental question on how long a Bill should take between the two Houses, and especially at the Senate. Good record, as National Assembly we have been fast- tracking Senate Bills; and we have many Senate Bills in our Order Paper. However, it suffices to say here, in the 12th Parliament that the people of the Coast waited for the Crop (Amendment) Bill which we processed here with Hon. Tandaza to put cashew nuts and bixa as scheduled crops something that the Coast region had for a long time yearned for. We succeeded in this House, it was taken to the Senate, it went on until we went sine die and that has frustrated the farmers because scheduling a crop, putting it as a scheduled crop means a lot. It means budget; it means extension officers; and it means productivity. The economy at the Coast has continued to stagnate because the Senate kept the Bill. Even when we were looking for it nobody at the Senate knew where it was. Hon. Speaker, under your leadership we would like this to change so that when we finish with a Bill here in this House, we are able to take it to the Senate, we have a time frame and that it can come back whether for mediation or whatever. But Bills from National Assembly going to the Senate, staying indefinitely without them being passed is not good. It is a sad story and I hope this Bicameral Bill we passed here yesterday and which will go to the Committee of the whole House will normalise this situation so that the National Assembly does not suffer in the hands of the Senate."
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"content": "Hon. Leader of Majority Party."
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"speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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"content": " Thank you, Hon. Speaker and let me thank the Hon. Leader of the Minority Party for raising that issue. Yesterday I saw an engagement in the Senate as I was driving here in the afternoon. I was watching online, where they were complaining that we are also taking inordinately long to process their Bills but Hon. Speaker, you are aware in the House Business Committee, we purposed to consider all Bills that are coming from the Senate, and in good faith we have done that. However, they were also The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor"
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"content": "complaining that the House rejected two Bills, one proposed by Senator Cherargei and the other one by Senator Mungatana, which the House defeated in Second Reading. I listened to the argument that we should have allowed the Bills to progress to the Committee of the whole House before we get into mediation. I thought it is a defeatist argument because the end will be the same, ending up with mediation. If the House felt that substantively the Bill did not meet a particular threshold as was advised by the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Environment, Forestry and Mining and the other Committee that considered the other Bill by Sen. Cherargei, then we need not go to Third Reading. Hon. Speaker, you know, we, in this House, have restrained ourselves after you came here from the other House, in anyway referring to the House as a Junior House or a Lower House but I saw them unfortunately refer to this House as the Lower House and we leave it at that. I engaged with the Hon. Leader of Minority in the Senate when I saw that particular debate. I raised the particular issue of the Sugar Bill and others that have come from this House and are pending there including the Fisheries Bill, that the Ministry and the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Irrigation have been following up. He indicated that the Committee on the other side is finalising work on the Sugar Bill and by the end of next week they should be completing that Bill. I hope that they will keep their word on that, together with processing of the Fisheries Management Bill that I mentioned to him. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I, therefore, beg that we give them until the end of next week and see if they will complete it as they promised."
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