Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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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. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you can protect me from some of these unnecessary points of order. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: You wait, you will hear. view
• 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. view
• 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. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The other issue that I must appreciate the Committee for doing is touching on the issue of deleting Clause 20 that sought to remove the role that this House plays in subsidiary legislation. It has become customary in this country to continue to claw onto the mandate and responsibilities of the Houses of Parliament by the Executive. Clause 20 was in furtherance of that State capture or the Executive capture of the Legislature. I must thank the Committee because it has led this House in denying the Executive the opportunity to capture the Legislature further. In view of that, if ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: country, the Cabinet Secretary or anybody in the National Treasury can sit and on their own volition or at the instigation of other forces out there, decide to give remission on duty on even sinful things like beer, cigarettes and wines. I am not saying those who partake of those things should not partake them, but these are rich men and women. These are people who can afford all these commodities irrespective of how much you tax them. Therefore, I intend to bring amendments to ensure that approval of any remission on duty on beer, wines, cigarettes and all those ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: In conclusion, we have no business being here if we will continue to allow the Government to continue taxing more money on fuel and cooking gas. For example, the 8 per cent Value Added Tax put on fuel and the VAT proposal on cooking gas. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: It is a contribution. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: It is a contribution cum point of order. 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