Members of the National Assembly are expected to resume their sittings Tuesday afternoon after a one-month recess.
It is the first time the House will be sitting since the acrimonious debate on the 2018 Finance Bill.
The sitting will also see the re-introduction of Question Time where MPs will be given opportunity to ask brief questions in which respective CS will be required to make response to.
The House Procedure and Rules Committee chaired by House Speaker Justin Muturi says the session will reduce the amount of time used up by MPs when debating replies offered by committee chair to the House.
Question Time was dropped from the House procedures following the implementation of the 2010 Constitution abolished the hybrid parliamentary system in favour of a Presidential system in which Cabinet are not MPs.
Kibra MP Kenneth Okoth had revealed plans to introduce a Marijuana Control Bill, 2018 with a view to decriminalising the growth and use of bhang.
He revealed this in a letter to National Assembly Speaker Justin Muturi on Friday.
The lawmaker said amnesty measures should be instituted for the removal of criminal records against citizens with prior convictions of marijuana use.
“There is a regulation for growth and safe use of marijuana and hemp, including the registration of growers, producers, and manufacturers.”
“….and users with special focus on protection of children minors from illicit use just as we do with tobacco and alcohol,” Okoth said.
The MP noted that there is research and policy development on growth and use of marijuana and hemp for medical industrial textile and recreational purposes.This, he said, is with a focus on preservation of intellectual property rights for Kenyan research and national heritage, knowledge and our indigenous plant assets.
“The should be progressive taxation measures for the marijuana industry to boost Kenya’s economic independence and promote job creation.”
According to Nacada, 1 per cent of Kenyans aged 15 to 65 years are regular users of bhang, the most widely used narcotic drug in the country.
Last year, a petitioner seeking legalisation of marijuana, says the plant can cure up to 6,077 medical conditions.
Ogot Gwada presented his petition to the Senate Health committee saying that marijuana has not only huge medicinal benefits but also massive industrial use.
In 2015, the Kibra MP proposed that the government should stop wasting money on sugarcane farming and legalise marijuana instead.
He added that marijuana is a very valuable commodity and has a ready market in the USA and believes it will give Kenyans a lot of money.
“Let us emancipate ourselves from mental slavery and start planting marijuana, legalise it, and tax it.”
“We should replace sugarcane with medical marijuana which has a ready market in the USA,” he said.