Christopher Omulele

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• 30 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: It has been said, and all of us are aware of this, that water is life. Water is life because even in this august House on a daily basis, we consume tonnes and tonnes of water. This is the first thing that is placed before us on a daily basis, so that we can quench our thirst. However, the people in all corners of Kenya do not have access to clean drinking water, the way we have clean drinking water in this House. So, this is a Motion that if taken care of, and if a policy comes out of ... view
• 30 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: It has been said, and all of us are aware of this, that water is life. Water is life because even in this august House on a daily basis, we consume tonnes and tonnes of water. This is the first thing that is placed before us on a daily basis, so that we can quench our thirst. However, the people in all corners of Kenya do not have access to clean drinking water, the way we have clean drinking water in this House. So, this is a Motion that if taken care of, and if a policy comes out of ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak on this Motion. I think this is a Motion that is timely. We as Kenyans need to know each other. We need to be able to identify ourselves without too much ado at any point in this country. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we have a situation in this country where people have to produce different and varied identification cards at different points, for example, National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF). We have our national identity card itself. Now, even in this Parliament we have also our identity cards here which are different. I think what we need to do in this country is to identify people from the time they are born in this country so that you have one identification document from the time you are born to the time you die. ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: of the people who are sitting in positions of power and who are wielding a lot of power in this country really are not even Kenyans. This has been in the rumour mills and I do not want to name names but these are jobs that can be held by Kenyans. If we had a situation where we could identify people from the time they are born, then we would not have a situation where people come to this country to terrorise us and call themselves bandits and all manner of names. We do not need terrorists in this country ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so, I stand today to fully support this Motion. If we do this, we will have nipped in the bud this perennial problem of our children and youngsters forever chasing these documents. All of us in this House must have come across this problem at our constituency levels where our young people are forever at our doors asking us to help them get identification documents. We will have taken care of this if we go this way. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I know for a fact that the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) at one time had put out a tender actually to come up with a system where we were going to amalgamate all these multiplicity of identification systems, where we were going to have one number through which we would identify ourselves as Kenyan citizens. That tender was put out and people responded. Different corporate bodies responded to that tender and it was evaluated but for some reason it has never been awarded almost two years down the road. I do not know where or what ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: So, it is true that we can stand here and say that this is a system that our Government has contemplated about and is fully aware that it should be implemented and has attempted to implement it. So, we shall not be starting to reinvent the wheel really. We shall actually be just picking it up from where the KRA had reached and dusting and perfecting it so that our people can be identified through one system once and for all. So, for these reasons, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I stand today to support this Motion and to congratulate the ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity. For a long time, we have had a situation where taxpayers have been subjected to decisions by officers of the taxing body in this country and we have not had a clear way to go when they feel their rights have been infringed. We have had a situation where commissioners, especially the Commissioner in charge of Customs, have made very drastic assessments with regard to taxpayers. We have had situations where people who otherwise think that they have paid their taxes and met their tax liabilities get assessments that have actually ... view
• 15 Oct 2013 in National Assembly: So, hon. Speaker, this Bill is a good one because, for the first time, we are going to bring expertise towards matters of determination of tax disputes between members of our society and the tax collecting body. In this way, we shall be able to develop jurisprudence through which our members of our society shall be able to know with certainty that if you do “a” with regard to tax, then “b” shall surely follow and, really, this is the way that an orderly society must go. So, for that reason, I agree that this is a Bill for which ... view