Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: I want to advise the Leader of the Majority Party. I know that he worked at the National Treasury as a Cabinet Secretary. However, he must now realise that he has a new role as the Leader of the Majority Party in the National Assembly. He should leave behind his hangovers of the past in the National Treasury. He should see that he is being an apologist for the National Treasury on this Floor of the House. view
• 29 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: When the National Treasury errs, we must be bold enough to tell them. I am certain that the Budget and Appropriations Committee and Parliamentary Budget Office will take their work seriously and go through these Estimates. By a glimpse of those Estimates just like last year, we are not cognisant of the current circumstances that Kenyans are living under. Probably, part of the reason these Estimates have been brought late is because the National Treasury wants to take this House with contempt and by surprise so that we do not have adequate time to critically scrutinise them to ensure that ... view
• 29 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: I want to advise the Leader of the Majority Party to see that he is being an apologist for the National Treasury. They take us with a lot of contempt. This is seen in the disbursement of NG- CDF. The county governments are crying because they have not been given over Kshs80 billion. They table documents late. Let us stand our position. I want to associate myself with your 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
• 29 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: sentiments to reprimand the National Treasury. We, as a House, should do that. You spoke for us. I want to completely disassociate myself with the apologist remarks of the Leader of the Majority Party. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I do not want to repeat some of the issues that I had in mind but have been raised. I will dwell on simple issues. One is voting threshold. You are aware that this being a popular initiative, Article 257(8) of the Constitution gives us thresholds as to how we will vote in this House. It is by a majority of Members of each House. Considering Covid-19 guidelines and only 112 Members are allowed to sit in this Chamber, I wanted to know the measures you may have put in place to ensure ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: I am not asking you, Leader of the Majority Party. You better keep your cool. I am addressing the Speaker. Hon. Speaker, you may protect me from the Leader of the Majority Party. You know he is used to swearing. Let me not even look at him, he might swear that he would rather die than listen to me. view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, you need to define for us the threshold. Will it be 50 per cent plus one of the 349 Members of this House or a simple majority of the quorum present? You can hear the promoter is shouting quorum. And are you going to provide mechanisms of how we will vote from the tents? The other critical issue I wanted to raise has been raised. It has been alluded to and we cannot be blind to media reports, rumours (if you want to call them so, as I have heard my colleagues do), innuendos, gossip, or whatever you ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: correct Bills or those that were not? Between the two Bills that went to this House and the Senate, which Bill is this House considering? view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Junet, relax. Does the Bill have errors as has been alluded to by the Report and the Chair of the Committee? Those who sit in that Committee will be speaking to those issues. How then do we cure those issues? What shall be the implication of the two Houses considering different versions of the Bill if, indeed, there are two different versions, that is, one in the National Assembly and another in the Senate? Irrespective of whether it is subject to the entire Bill or versions of the Bill in terms of errors in one Bill versus the other, ... view
• 28 Apr 2021 in National Assembly: Those are issues that in as much as they are not constitutional, relate to the sovereignty of the people, something which we are talking about. If the people are sovereign, we must also be able to speak on their behalf. view