Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: There is nothing I have said that is out of order. I will not disparage the House as Hon. T.J. has said. We must be cautious. The Hansard is there. I am subject to the rules of this House. If I have said anything that would be disparaging, the House is at liberty to name me and you should go ahead. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I should be the one to invite you to go back to The Hansard and establish what was said. view
• 21 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Most importantly, I did not raise a matter that was extraneous. When the substantive Speaker was on the seat, he directed that Hon. Mwathi addresses the two issues: the issue of the deportation… view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Mine is also related to the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security. Last week, the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Administration and National Security indicated that he will be giving a response to my request for Statement. He indicated that he would bring us the report on the withdrawal of the Deputy President’s security detail this week on Tuesday. Hon. Speaker, as you are aware, I mentioned this to you and after consultations, and he indicated that he would do that yesterday, but he came in very late. He indicated that he would give ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: Sorry, Hon. Speaker. I had forgotten that Wednesday will be Mashujaa Day. They can then do so on Thursday afternoon. More importantly is a Question by Private Notice by Hon. Otiende Amollo. The issue that Hon. Otiende Amollo raised is not a matter to be taken lightly. I remember that it concerned a ranger from the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) who was abducted from a matatu as he travelled from somewhere in Laikipia to Nairobi by people who were said to have been in a Subaru. I followed that particular story in the news. In the same week, Hon. Aden ... view
• 14 Oct 2021 in National Assembly: irrelevant. I want to ask the Vice-Chairlady, who seems more diligent than the Chairman, to take up those matters, especially the issue raised by Hon. Otiende Amollo with greater weight than it has been handled. Hon. Speaker, I agree with you that a Question by Private Notice by a Member ought to have been replied to. I took keen interest and I was not even in the House - I was streaming live as I drove to the House - when Hon. Otiende Amollo raised that Question. I was happy that he raised it because I had just watched it ... view
• 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