Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1181 to 1190 of 1882.

• 5 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I do not know whether I will need to be seconded before I move the second amendment because they are different. view
• 5 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: In which case I had talked to Hon. Njagagua. I want to ask Hon. Chris Wamalwa to second. view
• 29 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House:- Reports of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the year ended 30th June, 2015 and the certificate therein:- (i) The Official Receiver; and, (ii) The National Cereals and Produce Board. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this amendment Bill brought by my good friend, Hon. Athanas Wafula Wamunyinyi. I would also like to thank the Members who have spoken before me in supporting the Bill, especially Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo and Hon. Ferdinand Wanyonyi for the recognition they extended to me in terms of the support I have received from sugarcane farmers. The people who have twice elected me to this House, that is, in 2007 and 2013 are majorly sugarcane farmers. In my constituency, you would be irrelevant if you talked ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in Mumias today, there is a common terminology called “DR”. It is a debit where inputs are more than what the farmer gets. What causes this “DR” is the high cost of transport. The cost of transport is increased because of VAT charges. I strongly support the Mover of this Motion that farmers will take home more money, if the cost of transport is reduced. You will find a farmer has four to six acres and the cost of transport alone is 60 per cent of what he would have otherwise got. In that 60 per ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I take this opportunity to correct what my counterpart, Hon. Chris Wamalwa has said - that the Government is using the sugar levy to bail out Mumias Sugar Company. My colleague, with a lot of respect, should have sought information from those of us who are on the ground and are the beneficiaries. The first amount the Government took to Mumias Sugar Company was from the Sugar Development Levy. But the Kshs2 billion was voted and passed in this House to be released by the Government from the Exchequer to go and bail out Mumias Sugar Company. We are happy ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I thank the Government for the support it has given. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would like to use this opportunity to support the Government for the bailout it has extended to Mumias Sugar Company. We are aware that Mumias Sugar Company would not be in the position in which it is today if it was not for the mismanagement by the previous management team. Despite the position of Mumias Sugar Company, the Government still went ahead to bail it out. I think strongly that it was because of the farmers. The Government was not bailing out Mumias Sugar Company as a company. It was doing so because of the ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: are going to discuss the way forward for Mumias Sugar Company. That is because farmers are getting discouraged from growing that crop because most of them are getting debit payments. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: As we support this amendment Bill - and I want my brother, Hon. Wamunyinyi to listen to this - mechanisms must be put in place to make sure that if there is an exemption of VAT, then it should be the farmer who should benefit and not the transporters. Many times, we have seen those exemptions extended to transporters who are third parties. It is neither directly to the farmers nor to the companies, but to transporters who are, generally, third parties. A mechanism should be put in place to make sure that, that exemption should benefit farmers directly. Otherwise, ... view