David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: information is. That must be qualified by a court of law. If we leave it for a committee to decide, its members may have some reasons to say that the information being given is false. If you look at Article 12(2)(c), you will find that the committee may issue commission or request to examine a witness abroad. How does one examine a witness abroad? Are you going to invite the witness or it is the committee going to spend some money to travel abroad to seek evidence? We need to re-look this provision during the Committee of the whole House. ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, yesterday, I had an opportunity to attend a meeting of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade when they met the Director, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) and later they met the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury. They talked about mismanagement of banks and the frustrations of the Governor of the CBK. They do everything in terms of audit and checking of banks to ensure that they do not flout the rules, but the banks still end up not having sufficient cash flows. At the end of the day, banks are put under ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. 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
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I thank Hon. Mwadime for bringing up the issue of providing water to public facilities. I know it is a problem. I am the Vice-Chair of the Committee on Implementation. Some of the problems we find with some of these Motions are on the implementation aspect. Provision of services is a devolved function under the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and it has been taken to the counties. Sometimes when we urge the national Government to do something, it becomes a problem during implementation. I am saying this because we have handled some petitions ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Under the social corporate responsibility and giving back to the community, the county governments should put some measures not to allow wastage in our primary schools but allow the pupils to have water that they need. It has affected their health. If you go to some schools, you will find that the situation is chaotic. Half of the school population is not in school because of water borne diseases because they go to toilets which have no water. We force our kids to carry the 20-litre jerrican to school so that they can have water. Most of the parents of ... view
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• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. First of all, I want to thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute. Looking at the Bill, when I was reading through the amendments, I did not understand why it only concerned county governments. The end of the memorandum says that this Bill is one concerning county governments to manage public finances at the county level. This Bill was first published on 10th December, 2014. Two years down the line, it has finally found its way to Parliament. I wish to take this opportunity to ask those Members who sit on the ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: give practical issues on the amendments suggested. I agree with him that this has been a problem. People are complaining that doing businesses has become so expensive. He gave an example of getting sugar or products across some counties. These counties want to charge levies. I remember vehicles with adverts on their bodies are charged by every county. If one is taking his product from one county to another and he is to cross through six counties, and they have that provision in their fees and charges, he will pay in every county. It is becoming excessively unreasonable for business ... view