Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is very important. In Kirinyaga, farmers were paid as high as Kshs151 per kilogramme while in Mount Elgon and most parts of Western Kenya, the payment ranged between Kshs20 and 30. Could the Cabinet Secretary clarify the differential such that farmers doing the same good job are paid Kshs21 in Western, but in Kirinyaga they are paid Kshs151? view
• 2 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was pursuing Standing Order No.105. That is why I was struggling on accuracy of what is being stated, but you have shown and the Cabinet Secretary has heard me. We are concerned. Cabinet Secretary, we have gone full throttle. We are telling farmers to plant, but Kshs21 against Kshs151? view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, very happily, I rise to second. I want it to remain clear that the reason we are struggling this much, this late in the financial year, is because Members of the National Assembly agreed on controlling more and more millions of shillings. That is the reason we were forced to remove the Kshs10.5 billion for the Road Maintenance Levy (RML) so that life can go on. Hon. Members of the National Assembly, please, style up. Even if you control the entire budget of Kenya, some of you will win and many of you will lose. Thank you, ... view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. It is only this afternoon that we have approved an additional Kshs410,284,520 to Nyamira County. We have passed it this afternoon. This is how serious this House is. Where is this money going? It is going to the office of the governor, and in accordance with the provisions of this Constitution, he can only spend it after appropriation by the Assembly. view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: The governor must tell us, because that is where the buck stops, which County Assembly will be responsible for allowing him to spend this money. The Controller of the Budget (CoB) is responsible for overseeing the implementation of budgets by county governors. She should also appear before the Committee and tell us that the budget she has been implementing has been passed by which county. It is this level of impunity that is the reason governors assumed the title of His Excellency. view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: I remember in 2014, I moved a draft Bill in this House saying that this position of His Excellency will make governors drunk with power. You can see the evidence. I said in that draft Bill that they will be so drunk with power that that drunkenness will also, by osmosis, affect their wives. As if I were wrong, the governors today call their wives--- view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker--- view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Senator of Uasin Gishu should just declare his interest in this matter as far as my comment is concerned. He is not an ignorant man. view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you. You have saved him. I was going to crush him. He is a very lucky man this afternoon. I was saying something very serious that this drunkenness with power, as I feared in 2014 in my draft Bill, has become so infectious that today, they call their wives first lady. They even have first daughters, first sons, first mothers, and first concubines. Madam Temporary Speaker, the sad ending of this “first” something is that they are first something with a budget. You know, as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights (JLAHR), ... view
• 1 Apr 2025 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view