Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hope the clerks have noted the one minute you have taken after I got the microphone. I also rise to support the Report by the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. I really want to thank the Chair, Hon. Gladys Wanga and the Committee for the quick time they took to look into the two Petitions by Hon. Mule and the other gentleman who had petitioned the House. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Even as I support all the recommendations by the Committee without enumerating them, I hope very soon we will have an opportunity to debate the Bill itself and, in actual sense, amend some of these proposals. I have particular interest on the VAT on fuel. This is because the House has been accused of having imposed the 8 per cent VAT on fuel. In actual sense, it was the President who legislated through a Memorandum and the House was unable to raise the two-thirds majority. Many of us who were in this House that day will remember me opposing strongly ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: I also support the view expressed by a number of Members that VAT on fuel should be zero-rated or at zero per cent, same to LPG. I want to encourage the Committee, even as they draft the Bill that this should not go down from 16 to 8 per cent, but they should zero-rate it again. As The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: the Leader of the Minority Party has said, this does not mean we should not tax people, but we must be cognisant of the times we are living in. Many of our constituents are still bedevilled by the COVID-19 pandemic and so, it is only right that we further defer the taxes on LPG and fuel probably to the year 2023 and 2024. You will recall the time when VAT on fuel was being debated in this House, we were made to believe there was commercial exploration of oil by Tullow Oil in Turkana and eventually the cost of crude ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is because you had taken about a minute of my time. It is high time the Committee went and dug deeper into the question of oil marketing companies and the profit margins and operational costs. This is because the operational costs of Vivo Energy, Rubis, Ichung’wah Oil Marketers Limited and other small businesspersons are not the same. Therefore, you cannot give them the same margins. We should allow a liberal and free market economy to thrive so that people can compete and offer the best prices of petroleum products and other fuels for ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for your indulgence. I honestly sympathise with Hon. Gikaria, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Energy. As the Majority Whip has said, if you listened to the issues Hon. Duale has raised in his Request for a Statement today, some are very weighty matters. I can tell you having served as the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee over the years, that Hon. Duale is requesting for the development expenditure. My good friend Dr. Makali will bear me witness that what the Leader of the Majority Party emeritus is asking for is opening a ... view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, these are very weighty issues to do with how we manage and govern issues of public assets and parastatals. Therefore, I want to agree with you that the CS National Treasury must take the issues of Kenya Power and IPPs more seriously than he is doing. Also, the issues raised by Hon. Duale today are very weighty and the CS National Treasury cannot afford to take the House for granted. view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to lend my voice to the changes that are being made to our departmental and select committees. I have listened to the reasons being given by both the whip and the Leader of the Minority Party. Whereas I agree with the Leader of the Minority Party that nobody from the Minority Party is being de-whipped view
• 13 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: , the case is not the same on the Majority side. If you look at the people being moved around, you can tell that the real intent by the Majority Party is to de-whip Hon. Gathoni Wamuchomba from being the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing and that is why she is being moved from the Committee. Whereas it is within the rights of any parliamentary party to move Members, being a Member of the Members Welfare Committee, we have a role in ensuring that we protect parliamentary democracy. We must stand out as much ... view