Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: For instance, in their headquarters at Upper Hill, they have not occupied the whole building. They have rented out space to tenants and they are taxed on that income. In this country, we have been speaking about giving global healthcare to Kenyans and now NHIF is even giving healthcare facilities to our elderly people that are benefiting from the cash transfer programme. We just want to encourage them to continue with these investments without necessarily taxing them. I hope it is clear to Hon. Makali. view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to join the Leader of the Majority Party in pleading with Hon. Jakoyo. I have heard the Leader of the Majority Party even entertaining this amendment in the Miscellaneous Statute Law for 2017. I encourage Jakoyo to propose it as a substantive Amendment Bill by itself. 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
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: The second thing is the contradiction in the amendment. We are just talking about Safaricom and Mpesa, while forgetting that even Equity now has Equitel in the same service of money transfer. Hon. Jakoyo, this is something that needs a lot of deliberation and we need to listen to all the stakeholders. Hon. Jakoyo, we are talking about loss of jobs in the banking sector. We are also not looking at the loss of jobs that will be occasioned by the many agents who operate view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: and all the other agencies. view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, lastly - and I appreciate what Hon. Jakoyo has said about Vodafone and local ownership - we forget that Vodafone owns a platform on which Mpesa is riding. Therefore, if we were to delink the two companies, basically, we will be looking at the collapse of Mpesa as a local innovation. Therefore, I plead with Hon. Jakoyo to withdraw this amendment and look at it more substantively. Let him allow Members of the House to look at it more substantively, besides the other stakeholders. view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended in the Schedule- (b) in the items relating to the Copyright Act, 2001 (No 12 of 2001)- (i) by deleting the amendments proposed to section 30(8) and substituting therefor the words “and performance for private purposes shall include the digital content of artistic works”; (ii) by deleting the amendments proposed to section 30A(1); (iii)by inserting the following row in its proper sequence- The amendment, as proposed, is unconstitutional as it seeks to force our artists, especially musicians’ royalties, to be channelled to entities other than those entities ... view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: For Hon. Kaluma, I know a lot of his time was taken by the amendments to the Children Act. The Leader of the Majority Party was also away. The issue here is deleting amendments proposed to Section 38 and substituting the words, “and performance for private purposes shall include digital content of artistic works”. I have said many of our artists have their artistic work being downloaded and used especially as ringtones on phones. Because the Act did not recognise digital content, therefore, they are forced to have their The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: money channelled through entities that they have not approved themselves. Those are people who are just collecting money on their behalf and not channelling the same money to the artists. A case in point is our vernacular gospel musicians who have suffered because people are collecting royalties on their behalf, but they do not remit that money to them. view
• 1 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Leader of the Majority Party is interrupting me! The other thing, if I can also speak to the second amendment, is deletion of Section 30A. Many Members will remember that there was a court case in the constitutional court in Malindi, that is Petition No.5 of 2016, and the court proposed that Section 30A of that Act be deleted in its entirety. It is basically on the same argument that the provisions in Section 30A were unconstitutional. Therefore, this is just to align the law with the court ruling. I hope Hon. Kaluma is now happy. view