Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: guidance on the constitutionality of this Bill. These are issues that we had identified. I know a number of Members had identified some of these unconstitutional issues in this Bill. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, when you directed the Committee – and I wish the Chair of the Committee was in this House today – to go and do what you call winnowing of the many amendments that Members had proposed, the Committee then engaged in what, to me, was a public relations exercise. Hon. Speaker allow me to speak on behalf of Hon. Sankok, who has just told me that this matter is too heavy for him. This is because he had amendments, knowing what Maasai Mara University is to him and to the people of Narok County. He told me that ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I had amendments on these particular issues of constitutionality. Also the Bill said it did not concern the counties. But there are issues that concern the counties in the Bill, and some that I had carried in amendments. I was never invited for winnowing. Therefore, besides the issues of unconstitutionality, I would also want you to guide the House on what is it that the Committee should do when you direct that they engage in a process of winnowing of amendments. That is because what was done by the Committee – and it is sad that the Chair ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the issue of public universities is so sensitive to many of our Members. Many of those universities are in our backyards. I have the Kikuyu Campus of the University of Nairobi that supported Thogoto Village and Shopping Centre 10 to eight years ago. Today, that campus is a pale shadow of what it was. Murang’a University, Karatina University and all the public universities are closing down. They are not closing down because our children are not qualifying to join public universities, they are closing down because of such Bills and such provisions where we are funding private universities ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: But when you go to private universities, you will find real vice-chancellors and directors of those universities. Why is it that our public universities were never listened to, and they come through some amorphous association called the Association of Public Universities? I say I speak for and on behalf of our public institutions, because I have taken my time to engage with Vice Chancellors of our public universities, and they are all crying and begging. They have, in fact, been lobbying many Members of Parliament that when it comes to consideration of this Bill, I would even beg we consider ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg for your guidance. I will be obliged by whatever guidance you will give us. view
• 7 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to second the Procedural Motion. I commend the Leader of the Majority Party because even from London, he watched the important business that we transacted up to midnight. view
• 7 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to oppose this particular Motion. I understand what the Leader of Majority Party is saying. I know where the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee sits in this. The issue of public debt is not an issue that we ought to be justifying and appeasing ourselves. It is a burden we are laying on the shoulders of Kenyans. I heard His Excellency the President on Madaraka Day saying that debt is simply us utilising other people’s money. This is not money we are getting as a grant or a gift from other people. ... view
• 7 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Kamket has just told you that initially they had brought us a percentage. If you look at the percentage they are giving us now, as much as it is on the net present value (NPV) terms of our GDP, at 55 percent, however much you try to cook the GDP on the NPV terms, we will still be below the Kshs9 trillion debt that we have today. Therefore, this slight or huge variation to Kshs10 trillion will be a burden to the Kenyan people. More importantly, it is outside what this House has approved in our Medium-Term Debt Strategy ... view
• 7 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: base at the bottom of the economic pyramid so that we get more taxpayers into the tax net. We must also reform the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA). If you speak to the Director-General, Mr. Mburu of KRA, he will tell you that for the last three years, he has been unable to recruit new staff. We gave them money in the 2019/2020 Budget, but that money was removed in the Supplementary Estimate I after I left the seat of the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee. The KRA today is an institution that we must restructure and renew, so that ... view