Anthony Githiaka Kiai

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: The President also should have talked about manufacturing in the country. We are at a situation whereby we find that the economy is dependent on importing than exporting and the balance of trade between the two is growing every day. We have a situation whereby the Government policies in place are killing the local industries through high power tariffs and expensive licences both by county and national Government and by extortion methods adopted by the national Government and the county governments. We also needed to hear about what the Government is doing to support local exporters to ensure that we ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: On agriculture, being one of the Big Four Agenda, we needed to hear about what is going to be done to the policies that are in place that ban the use of farm manure, the dairy sector rules that seem to oppress the common mwananchi doing small-scale dairy farming. We needed to hear what is being done about coffee farming in this country. It is only in Kenya where you find a coffee farmer is the lowest paid person in the whole supply chain. We needed to be told why we continue to import sugar into the country yet we ... view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: We also needed to hear about what the Government is doing to reduce the debt burden in the country. We cannot continue borrowing money especially from China to finance our infrastructure. We need to ask ourselves if the Standard Gauge Railway is the only thing that we can do. Can we not use that money to develop the road network which will reach far corners of this country? If at all the SGR is going to extend all the way to Kisumu, is it economically viable? If we are now going to have a debt burden of about Kshs1trillion on ... view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the amendment. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we cannot continue having companies operating in this country whose directorship, origin and legal standing is unknown. We first must register the company for it to do business in Kenya, whether under the new Company’s Act or the old one. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: It is very short. I will have to use another one. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I am too tall physically and in other places. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I support simply because we have to get to know the companies that are doing business in Kenya. We must know their directorship and legal status. Also whether they are foreign or local. I am saying this because as Parliament we must also be seen to be fighting corruption which is eating this country. We have to start the fight from this Chamber and ensure that even as it drips down to other citizenry, we have set the example. view
• 23 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: We must eliminate briefcase companies supported by shoddy characters who go to do business with the Government and are used as conduits to transfer money from the National Treasury to benefit a few individuals. We must ensure that if people are to do business legally and pay taxes, all the companies doing business here in Kenya, must be registered. view