David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Lastly, I will talk about preference and reservations. Hon. Deputy Speaker, it is very true. If you come to Nakuru County, you will find that all the tenders have been given to outsiders and nothing is left in Nakuru. So, how do we grow Nakuru County under the aspect of devolution? The 20 per cent reservation was even a small percentage. I was thinking they would have increased it to, at least, 40 per cent so that the locals can participate in tendering and be given the contract. I have said it in the past that registration of companies has ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: to propose that we decentralise registration of companies from Nairobi. We should have the registration of companies being undertaken at every county. Secondly, we also need to reduce the charges that the youth, women and the disabled persons are being charged. When you ask a company formed by the youth to pay over Kshs60,000 to the NCA, then that is impossible. As much as I support a few amendments which were done by the Senate, I do not agree with the clause on the staff and the percentage even though it has been raised to 20 per cent. I would ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. First of all, I disagree. I heard the Mover, the Majority Whip, when he was moving the Motion and he mentioned that some of these proposed amendments by the Senate contravene some of the sections. I totally agree. The Senate has a right to give us their views and thinking, but I totally agree that some of those amendments, which have already been agreed upon, are supposed to improve the Bill especially under Clause 32. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Maybe in line with what the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has just said, I need your guidance whether I should just wait. This is because I could be more advised on some of the issues which were raised by the Mover after the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade has given his contribution. I might not have anything to raise on most of the things I am going to raise. If you allow me I will seek your guidance as to whether I sit, allow him to give his contribution ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I stand guided. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: I concur with the amendments on clauses 26, 40 and 41, which did not have a lot of issues. However, if you look at Clause 32, and I remember when we were contributing to the Bill when it came before the House, we said that there are some words which are very dangerous when they are used in any Act. An example is in Clause 32 where they are proposing that we delete the word “may” and substitute with the word “shall”. I totally agree with the Committee when I heard that these are some of the things that they ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Secondly, I remember the membership and chairmanship of the Board was an issue which was brought up. We had suggested that some of these positions as the chairmanship--- It was a heated debate here. I totally agree with the resolution of the National Assembly then. Sometimes if you insist on a particular person being the chair and something was going to be raised against him or her or something has been raised about the chair and things have to be investigated about him or some issues have to be raised about him--- I believe that some of the issues which ... view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I stand to agree with the Committee. view
• 26 May 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I totally agree with the proposal by the Committee Chairman that we reject this amendment by the Senate and for obvious reasons given that it is unconstitutional. Some of this goes against the already existing act. I support what the Chairman is saying. view
• 2 Apr 2015 in National Assembly: Yes. The Chairlady is not around. Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today Thursday, 2nd April, 2015. The Report of the Select Committee on Implementation on the Status of the Implementation of House Resolutions from May, 2013 to February, 2015. view