Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Departmental Committee on Education? I noticed one of the dailies today had reported that Parliament has agreed with the National Treasury. view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Being an MP, my phone had about 17 text messages, three WhatsApp messages and calls from my constituents asking me how I can allow this at a time when I know they have no money. Therefore, I would like to go on recess with an assurance to my constituents that, come January, either we have NG-CDF for bursaries or an assurance from the Departmental Committee on Education and the Government of Kenya that they will not subject our students and parents to further suffering beyond what they have suffered during this COVID pandemic period. You know close to two million ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Standing Order No.44(2). view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise on Standing Order No. 44(2). I appreciate what the Leader of the Majority Party has just informed us although I wish he would be more forthcoming for purposes of planning when he mentioned that there might be urgent business and he seems to have information on what that “urgent” might be that would occasion a special sitting and the fact that he is not giving us notice of what that business would be. Maybe, if he has an indication of what that important business would be, it would be good to communicate so that ... view
• 3 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: in today’s Order Paper that there is business that was not listed in his Statement of last week. I do not know why the business which is Order No.13 was not mentioned. This is a Bill that is quite heavy and that has very many issues that I am sure very many Members would also have wanted to participate in. Considering that there is even mention of a special sitting, that is what aroused my attention. It is the fact that this Order No.13 has just come into the Order Paper and was not there when the Leader of the ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise on a point of order under Standing Order 47(3)(b) and also on previous communication from your seat regarding issues that are constitutional in nature as we legislate. Hon. Speaker, appreciating the guidance that you have given in your communication in some of the provisions in this Bill, there are other provisions which I find to be unconstitutional and some that openly flout provisions of the Constitution, particularly the amendments relating to the Accountants Act No. 15 of 2008. The amendment to the Accountants Act seeks to introduce trainee accountants as a category of persons ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK). The House will recall that in the last two years, this particular amendment has come to this House and has not seen the light of day, particularly because of the unconstitutionality of this provision that has been unfortunately sought by my colleagues in ICPAK. Article 36(2) of the Constitution is quite clear. It spells out that a person shall not be compelled to join an association of any kind. The ICPAK, by all definitions, is an association of professionals. I am a professional accountant by training. I worked as an accountant for close to 10 ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: This brings me to Article 43(1)(f) of the Constitution which is part of our very progressive Bill of Rights. It gives every person the right to education, including those who are training as accountants. The import of this provision is that nobody should be denied the opportunity to pursue any manner of education, even those training as accountants on account of not being able to join an association. Therefore, I find both what is provided for in the Bill and the further amendment proposed by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, to be falling flat, ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: The same way there are many accountants, others who are not practising and others serving both in the corporate and public sector that must not and should not be compelled to join this institute. Hon. Speaker, mine is just to beg and ask you, in your wisdom, as you did in your other life to rule on the balance of probability. We risk if we pass these amendments, to be going against the Constitution and to be denying our young people opportunities to train as accountants when this country dearly needs services of well trained and qualified accountants. Hon. Speaker, ... view