24 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
I beg the House to support this amendment. I know we want to impose this on onions grown in Loitoktok, Kieni, Ndeiya and Kitui, where Hon. (Ms.) Nyamai comes from. I beg that Members support.
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24 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
In fact, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I had spoken about this in the Second Reading. I beg to move: THAT
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I really do not want to interrupt my good friend, Hon. KJ. I was also astonished when he referred to you as Madam Speaker. Maybe it is because of the colour of your mask and bundle head. The colour is confusing Members.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
I was only trying to persuade you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, that maybe next time, you can use a mask that is not so dark.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
There is only one Kimani in the House at this time. Hon. Sankok was asking which Hon. Kimani? I am telling him there is only one in the House, and thank you for the mask. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise to support the Committee's Report. Let me begin by thanking the Chair, Hon. Gladys Nyasuna Wanga, for the very good exposition she made of their review of the proposals in the Finance Bill. One of the things I truly appreciate that the Committee has done is to be very cognisant of the times we are living in today. The ...
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Kenyans, many of who are very well educated, but because of lack of jobs, they have not done any other thing other than to ride motorcycles. As Hon. Omboko has said, many of them are even riding motorcycles that they hire or lease from the actual owners. If you increase Excise Duty on motorcycles, you will make them more expensive. You may assume probably it will only increase by Kshs15,000, but Kshs15,000 to a motorcycle rider, a hustler, is high.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you can protect me from some of these unnecessary points of order.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
You wait, you will hear.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker and I wish she can learn to first read and conceptualise what the Finance Bill is about, then she would have the capacity to interrupt serious matters with unnecessary things.
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22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
I was talking about the young Kenyans who are hustling out there using motorcycles. The Kshs15,000 may be meaningless to the Hon. Nominated Member of Parliament, but Kshs15,000 to somebody hustling out there means a lot. Therefore, protecting these young people is very important to me.
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