Athanas Misiko Wafula Wamunyinyi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: goals if we have good regulations, guidelines and a framework within which SACCOs will operate. It is, therefore, important that these regulations be passed by this House to ensure that we have a good law to regulate the industry. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, you and I are Members of BUCOSO and we have benefited from the savings. I expect that we are going to have reasonable dividends paid out in the near future. These savings are good for us and everybody in Kenya because they help us to move forward and ensure that we support the culture of saving. There ... view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the amendment we are making will have far reaching implications. I will give an example, which I would like the Leader of the Majority Party to take note of. The Co-operative Bank of Kenya – the bank that most of us do business with – is owned by co-operators. It is not owned by the Government. I do not even think that the Government has controlling shares within Co-operative Bank. This kind of amendment will lock out the Co-operative Bank of Kenya. I agree with my colleagues that we need to look at it again. Are ... view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, on the amendment by the Leader of the Majority Party, we had agreed that he was to take us through the amendments, clause by clause and we had reached part (2). He had not taken us through Part s(3) and (4). He has not taken us through the same. view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you appreciate that we had agreed that he was to take us through the amendments one by one. Interjections were raised when we were at Part (b) and (2). He has not taken us through part (3) and (4). view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This Report was as a result of an inquiry undertaken by the PIC into the particular case of NSSF Tassia II Project. You can see from the Report that there was fraud from the start. view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The NSSF purchased land at Kshs.2.2 billion between 1992 and 1995 and the same land was allegedly sold by land buying companies to private developers. The land was sold to private developers who grabbed it and others just settled on the piece of land and divided it into 5500 plots. What the Government did is deplorable. The NSSF went to court and won the case against the land grabbers, but the Government and some particular people within, decided that the land should be left to the people who had grabbed it thus legalising land grabbing. view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This is not something that should be discussed and accepted. We should be condemning it and appealing that nobody should grab land and then somebody somewhere legalises the action of land grabbing. That is tolerating evil and people who are not supposed to be in society. The second issue is the non-implementation of recommendations by the Committee. Time and again, we have had the watchdog Committees, PAC and PIC, coming up with strong recommendations against people found to have misappropriated and stolen public funds or abused their offices. To my surprise and this House, no action has been taken. I ... view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. The issue raised by Hon. David Were is not out of the ordinary. We have had such requests in the past where a Committee Chair or Committees have requested for time to look at reports and possibly take evidence, listen to the public or stakeholders for that matter. view
• 16 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: While this has been so, you have previously ruled on this. Before I go to that, I wish to note that the House has a constitutional mandate to legislate. Legislation is a process. It is not a one-off affair where you do something today and it ends the same day. It is a process. This Bill came for the First Reading and is now at the Second Reading. The Second Reading avails an opportunity to Members to ventilate, debate and raise issues which do not necessarily mean they support it. You can oppose or support it. You can also raise ... view