Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its consideration of the Division of Revenue (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 59 of 2019). view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, if you allow me, may I recognise the presence of the eminent ladies from the Alliance Girls High School. view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move that the Division of Revenue Bill (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.59 of 2019) be read a Second Time. According to the Report we have just tabled this afternoon, this is a republication of the Division of Revenue Bill that we had done earlier. Members are well aware of the events that followed the passage of the first Division of Revenue Bill, 2019. It was amended by the Senate and we went to mediation talks which collapsed sometimes last month. view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: We have now republished this Bill with a new figure of Kshs316.5 billion shareable revenue to the county governments. The Committee in its evaluation of Article 203 of the Constitution has detailed how revenue will be shared between the national Government and county governments. Members will realise that from the projected ordinary revenue of Kshs1.877.176 billion, what is categorised as national interest under our Constitution is a figure of Kshs94.168 billion. A figure of about Kshs585.703 billion will go towards payment of public debt and other national obligations. This includes constitutional commissions, other statutory payments like pensions and other Government ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: This is not all that is going to our county governments. Also, there are a number of conditional grants which were there in the previous Bill. Conditional grants to all levels of hospitals is about Kshs4.3 million and for the construction of county headquarters in Nyandarua; Tharaka Nithi and one other county; Kshs485 million. There is a further Kshs900 million as compensation for user fees foregone in the health sector. Fuel levy is a figure of Kshs8.934 billion. There is a further Kshs2 billion, a conditional grant towards development of youth polytechnics and for leasing of medical equipment, Kshs6.2 billion. ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am aware that our colleagues in the Senate have published another Bill, but I am not aware about how far they have gone in its deliberation. As much as all these issues may end up in mediation, I think it is important for our colleagues in the Senate and our country at large, including our Council of Governors and the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), to be alive to the realities of our nation today in terms of revenue generation. The challenge is not just on the national Government to enhance our revenue collections, but also for ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The other point to note is that we are basing what we share in revenues in line with what is provided for in our Constitution. We have no business to fight with what is in black and white in the Constitution. The Constitution provides that we share revenue on the basis of projections. I do not know what wisdom informed that particular decision when we enacted this Constitution in 2010. This is because the reality of our country today is that in the last so many years, we have not been able to meet these revenue projections and the targets ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: year of 2019/2020. They speak about figures well about Kshs200 billion as if it is money that has already been collected. It is important for the CRA to appreciate that as much as the KRA will give us their revenue projections, reality is that we never realise that revenue as projected. Therefore, as much as we are projecting to collect Kshs1.877 trillion, what we have seen in the past... Hon. Speaker, the last financial year you will bear me witness that we had a supplementary budget weeks after we passed the Finance Bill because of realities that we would not ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: the BPS and worked within the framework of a fiscal deficit that we have all committed to, not just as country, but as a region. You remember there is a convergence that we are working on in the East African states moving towards a fiscal deficit of about 3 per cent by the year 2022. If we are to achieve this, we can only accommodate this Kshs316.5 billion. As I said, anything beyond that has to be accommodated either by specific cuts or specific and quantifiable revenue-raising measures. It is important to remind the country that at a time when ... view
• 25 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: There are many Members of Parliament here who are prospective governors and they support devolution from the bottom of their hearts because they will be beneficiaries in the future. I can see the Leader of the Minority Party and the Deputy Chief Whip from Trans Nzoia County nodding, when I speak about future governors. view