David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: understand queries of wastages raised. It has always been alleged that the Auditor-General requires enough money and it is true so that he can undertake his responsibility effectively. They should note that compliance of the international accounting standards is paramount. The Committee notes that most of those State departments have not been complying with the recognised international standards, and we will be losing a lot of money in terms of misappropriation of funds. Sometimes, it is deliberate that they do not include some footnotes on the financial reporting at the end of the year. It has been alleged at the ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to air my few comments regarding this Bill. First, I want to thank my brother, Hon. Muthomi, for thinking about this very important Bill that would, maybe, give us a turn-around regarding the history of this country since Mzee started fighting for the country. It is important that this Bill becomes an Act of Parliament. This is because this country has a history. This history is vital and very important to us, our children and grandchildren. It is important for us to recognise where Mzee Jomo Kenyatta started his ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: We have been reading in books. The founder father died in 1978, but most of the young Kenyans, a bigger percentage, 60 to 70 per cent, of the young people who were born after 1978 might not be having the knowledge of the person that we are talking about. It is true as Injendi was saying, I have been in this Parliament for the last four years and I have not had an opportunity to go inside the mausoleum. Most of the time when I am passing there with my children, they ask why the place is guarded and whether ... view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I searched in Google the history of Mzee Jomo Kenyatta and his first contact with a Mzungu missionary who was in his area of Ichaweri. After a surgery that was done at the age of 10 years, he started asking himself some questions as to why a mzungu was doing that. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I withdraw. Let me use European or the colonialist. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. From that history, it is out of his own initiative as a houseboy where he was paid a few shillings which he used to pay for his school fees. That is what our children need to learn; that Mzee Jomo Kenyatta had to work to pay for his fees to attend school. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Sometimes, I challenge our university students. A student sent to America sends some money back home within a year of being in college. We also ask our university students to take up work. Why is it that when you go to the US, you start working to pay your fees and even send some money back home? We encourage our university students, as they are in the university, to engage themselves in meaningful employment particularly the technical bit. Those are some of the things we can learn from the late Mzee Jomo Kenyatta. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: He, of course, worked for the Ministry of Public Works and later became a court interpreter. Most people might not have all this information. A court interpreter in a law court here in Nairobi might think that it is just a job, but that is where Mzee Jomo Kenyatta started his journey and became the first President of the Republic. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: In 1928, he published a newsletter known as Muigwithania; a person who brings people together or who reconciles people. That newsletter has five main aspects I would want to highlight. One of the issues he wrote was the security of land tenure for the Africans. The colonialists had taken over our land and a Kenyan could not own anything. They would even be view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: asked to pay taxes to move from one area to another. That is one main aspect he wrote about in the newsletter; that you can own land. view