Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: The clarification I would have liked you to emphasise on, is that ranking Members of this House, just like is the practice everywhere in the Commonwealth, we have an unwritten responsibility to also carry along new Members in showing them how to become better leaders in the House. I would have liked you to make that distinction so that it occurs on the Senate Minority Leader, that he made a grievous mistake. view
• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I contribute to this Bill and in the spirit of the Mover; Sen. M. Kajwang’ and the contribution of the Senator for Tana River County, Sen. Mungatana, this is a great Bill because it is thought- provoking. I heard the Mover get provoked. He started talking about 13 counties and I said this is it, he is provoked. However, he ran away quickly. He even wanted to apologise for the remarks about Kakamega County, yet he was right. view
• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: I saw Sen. Mungatana get provoked when he candidly said that you have to do it from a different platform. If you expect to change boundaries using political statements from the National Assembly and the Senate in Nairobi, the Turkana will not listen to you. The people of Lwandeti Market will wonder what is wrong with Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale to imagine that he can change their boundary. He got provoked. I will contribute on that thought-provoking journey. If that is the case, then I beg my colleagues that today we are here and tomorrow we will not be here. We ... view
• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: point them out because I can come under attack. We remove Nairobi out of our list of counties. Secondly, we amalgamate the regional counties that I have been speaking to it. The endeavour by governors to go into regional blocs was not kneejerk. They had reflected that if they became regional blocs, they would unlock regional economic potential. I am appealing to the people of the counties of the former Western Province to accept that we have county one – Western County. County Two – Nyanza County, County three – North Rift County, County Four - South Rift County, County ... view
• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, these huge counties will also promote national cohesion. The reason you hear so much push for affirmative action is ethnic group A feels they are marginalized and the dream of a nation by the 15 heroes who spoke in this House in 1963 when hon. Jomo Kenyatta was being sworn in as the Prime Minister is now getting diluted by devolution. Madam Temporary Speaker, this is why today there is competition for ethnic chiefs and kingpins because somebody wants to feel that he is the king of, for example, that little ethnic community because he has no ... view
• 5 Mar 2024 in Senate: They have refused to open those strategic positions. Instead, they have gone into competition with the national Government because they have found a business opportunity. What are they doing? The national fertilizer is Kshs2500 per 50 per kilogramme bag. The county government has responded by producing their own fertilizer of Kshs3,840 per 50 per kilogramme bag on the argument that they have lowered their purchasing price by 40 per cent. The national Government should not just sit back on the assumption that agriculture is fully devolved then leave it to the governors to do what they want with agriculture. The ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. This is a very serious national problem. I remember a case in Malinya of Mzee Moody Magoyi from Bukusi Village. This is a man who never missed a weekend, coming to my home to remind me about his pension. He is a guy who had spent all his productive years working for the Kenya Railways and his pension never came to him. That was under the case of the defunct local authorities, which according to the statistics from NSSF, the defunct local authorities owe NSSF Kshs1.8 billion and the current devolved governments owe NSSF Kshs2.7 ... view
• 29 Feb 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I support. view
• 28 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I strongly agree with Sen. Wakili Sigei about his fears for our media. It is shocking that using the tool of violence and money, governors are making it difficult for the public to know how well we oversight them. A case in hand is when the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Budget had a meeting outside the precincts of Parliament to unearth abuse of office and misuse of public funds by the County Government of Kakamega. We were there for two days and some of the functions were being covered in real time by the media, ... view
• 22 Feb 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to move the following Motion being the Motion on the mediated version of the County Governments (Additional) Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bills No.23 of 2023). Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the County Governments Additional Allocations Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 23 of 2023) which was published on 24th May, 2023. The National Assembly considered and passed this Bill on the 25th of June, 2023 and consequently, in accordance with Article 110(4) of this Constitution, the Bill was referred to this Senate for concurrence. The overall objective of the Bill is to provide additional ... view