Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Let me choose a point of order. I do not want to interrupt the Chair because I understand what he has to go through, especially this time being the Chair emeritus . view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, it is only fair that he explains to us exactly what programme he is moving money from, which programme he is taking it to and the reason, when it comes to amendments. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also rise to contribute to this Motion on the approval of the Budget Estimates and the Committee’s Report. Let me begin by thanking the Budget and Appropriations Committee. As the Chairperson emeritus, I appreciate the enormous work that Members sat through during this period. It is a very stressing time for them and they, indeed, dedicate a lot of their time from their busy schedules in the constituencies to commit to this work of budget-making process. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Just to begin with where the Leader of the Minority Party has stopped on the role that this House plays in the budget-making process, the National Treasury and the Executive must understand that the Constitution clearly gives the power of the purse and the work of approving the Budget to this House. Indeed, it is quite clear from the actions of the National Treasury that they expect that this House will simply rubberstamp Budget Estimates as they come. Even Members who are not Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, but sit in the Departmental Committees spend a lot of ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: uncertainty as to whether or not, there will be a referendum in this country, you will be forgiven to ask whether we can say with certainty that there shall be a stable political environment and that, certainly, this country will not have any political interferences in terms of economic recovery. Secondly, assuming that there will be growth in external demand of our goods and services, it is still uncertain to tell even in the most developed economies in the world who are doing inoculation on their populations, whether there will be demand for our goods and services. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Remember that we are a country that is still exporting a lot of raw products. We never manufacture products to be able to export them in finished state that will fetch us more returns. Therefore, even the reopening of industries in those countries that demand our raw materials is still questionable. I am only trying to say that it is not certain that our external demand of our goods and services will be as envisaged, therefore, the growth projections even of our revenues is highly questionable. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: When you talk about growth in domestic consumption, who are our consumers? The people to consume our products are our people who, today, we project that between two to four million of them have lost their formal employment. This means that they do not have disposable income to be able to consume goods and services. With some people having lost their businesses, some operating bars, restaurants and other businesses that cannot operate beyond 10.00 p.m. because of the curfew and even with the risk of a fourth wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic, how realistic are we in projecting that we ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: It is on this basis that, last year, when the estimates were tabled before this House in my last presiding over of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I chaired a meeting that we decided as a Committee that we would send those estimates back to the sender because they were not reflective of the realities then. I am sorry to say that even this year, the estimates as tabled before this House which we are going to approve are not reflective at all, of the realities that we are confronted with as a country. It is not just the revenue ... view
• 19 May 2021 in National Assembly: Off-record. view
• 19 May 2021 in National Assembly: Off-record. view