Andrew Adipo Okuome

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 31 to 40 of 158.

• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: cannot be unfair to them, and the taxpayer needs money and we need to ask him to pay what is justified. The employees are going to be independent too because they are not going to be KRA employees. They are going to be employees who are for justice to both sides. This Bill is very important. I support it and believe Kenyans will be happy to see that we are trying to do something that will help them. I know people outside there have complained about taxation, quite considerably, and for the first time, I think this Bill is one ... view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: I vote yes. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this Report. The history of the Uwezo Fund in my constituency, and I believe in other constituencies, is as stated and at a very slow pace. A number of beneficiaries never knew that they were going to repay the money. So, the level of repayment is not satisfactory. After we joined the 12th Parliament, we were asked to put in place new committees and since 2018, these people have not worked. Committee members have been there, but they have no work at all because we cannot give loans and ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I also support the idea in the Report of reducing the amount of money to be recovered first before we get the money in use. The suggested 25 per cent should be implemented immediately, so that we can operationalise the Uwezo Fund. If this is done, we will make the Fund useful to the people. As I speak, the level of recovery is very low especially in my constituency. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I am informed that people were told that the Fund is political. Once it is related to politics, it means that if you go fast with recovery, you may lose some votes. So, we have been going slow, but making sure that some recovery is done. The money should be released for use The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: immediately without the 50 per cent recovery that was originally required. In fact, this is required before we put the money into use. view
• 3 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report. I wish it is implemented immediately, so that people can benefit from the Fund. Thank you, Hon. Speaker for having given me the opportunity to contribute to this Report. view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Bill that I support. I support the Bill which is going to promote tea farming. But in addition to that, I think we should not restrict ourselves to any particular sector of our agricultural activities. It is important that we should remember that we have the sugar industry which is almost dying because we are not giving it much attention. Cotton is another very important sector that is dying. We should not allow these important agricultural activities to go down the drain, because this is ... view
• 20 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: agriculture takes a fairly large percentage of our educational system, right from primary up to university level. If we do this, we will have cash crops to earn us foreign currency; we will also have enough food instead of importing, for example, maize. Why should we be dependent on imports for food as well as industrial materials? It is important we give a lot of weight to our agricultural activities so that Kenya can move from where we are to some place that will be more helpful to us in our economy. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I do ... view
• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me the opportunity. Let me pass my condolences, condolences of the people of Karachuonyo as a constituency that I represent and also the condolences of my family. I send them to the family of the former President of this Republic, His Excellency Daniel Toroitich arap Moi. I wish to say that we admired his leadership. I urge his two sons who are in Parliament to follow his nyayo and also to be on the right side of history so that they can actually support BBI in order that Kenya can move forward as a ... view