Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 3 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I rise, as others have said, to support certain provisions of these amendments and also be very cautious on others. I wish to, particularly, draw the attention of Members to what is called Urban Areas and Cities Act and the amendments that have been proposed. From the outset, it really looks harmless in terms of allowing governors to confer status of special municipality to their county headquarters. I am sure when I speak about county headquarters, the people from the county where I hail from, will understand why we would be very keen on conferring certain ... view
• 3 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: that Committee, it is true that with the Fisheries Management Bill, it was important that we de-link fisheries from the other areas. That is because fisheries is a very specialized area in agriculture and very important to the people whose fishing is the mainstream of their economies. There is also the question of allowing stakeholders to be represented in the board and it was difficult to determine actually which stakeholders in the agricultural sector would elect their representatives to the board. It would be very difficult. As you know, there are coffee farmers, tea farmers, livestock and fishermen in this ... view
• 3 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: that we represent against the dictatorship that we have seen in some of our counties by not allowing those county governments in the cities and municipalities to impose any rates and charges where people have not participated in the enactment of substantive legislation that allows those county governments to levy charges on our people. That would be a dangerous route if we were to take it. I, therefore, beg to support and be cautious of the areas that I have mentioned and move the necessary amendments when the time comes. Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you very much also for that guidance because there are those of us who really want to speak to this Motion. I wish to begin by congratulating His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta, for the report that he tabled before this House and the Speech. Indeed, I heard hon. Mbadi, who contributed to this Motion this morning and stated that despite the President having spoken about the issue of resettling IDPs, he has not addressed the issue of equality within the State. He went on to cast aspersions on the integrity of the resettlement ... view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, either the hon. Member was not listening to what I was saying, or he is probably skewed even in his listening to what I was saying. I was only correcting what hon. John Mbadi had insinuated this morning. He said that resettlement process was skewed towards certain communities and that there are integrated IDPs from certain communities who have been ignored from. If only hon. Mbadi can allow me to make this point, that the resettlement programme for integrated IDPs is still ongoing. It is true that there are Luos who were evicted from ... view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: (Off record). view
• 3 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It is unfortunate; it was because of those interruptions. The only other thing I wanted to mention was the question of equality within Government. It is a clear fact from the first year’s appointments that were done by His Excellency the President. Again a number of Members have insinuated that the President has not been fair. It is quite clear that the Government is very representative of all the communities in this country. Both at the Cabinet level and the parastatals level, there is a good representation and we need to commend the President. view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for your indulgence. I will not take a lot of time but let me first take this opportunity to thank hon. Ng’ongo for having brought this amendment to the VAT Act. Particularly, I want to draw the attention of the House to the proposal to include in the exempted products, inputs to 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
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: animal feeds. This is something that is very progressive. You would be astonished to learn that since we passed this Bill last year - and I say this with a lot of pain because a majority of my constituencies are in Kikuyu and the people of Kiambu County, because of the small landholding they have, they depend on animal husbandry in livestock, poultry farming and rearing of pigs. The increases that were there in the prices of a bag of animal feeds; the price rose from an average of Kshs.400 to Kshs.500 per bag. view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for your indulgence. I will not take a lot of time but let me first take this opportunity to thank hon. Ng’ongo for having brought this amendment to the VAT Act. Particularly, I want to draw the attention of the House to the proposal to include in the exempted products, inputs to 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