David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. When a government comes to power, it has its own projects, pledges and ways as to how to manage and govern the country. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, before the Jubilee Government came to power, its leaders had gone round the whole country giving pledges, ranging from free primary and secondary education to the laptops, irrigation, the railway construction and so many other things; the leaders gave pledges to support and improve the standard of living of its citizens. It goes without saying that to ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Of course, when we were passing this Bill in August, we were told that this country was losing up to Kshs40 billion through fraudulent Value Added Tax claims. That is one of the reasons why I want to support hon. Mbadi. He is right by saying we need to check on those dishonest businesspeople. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the second issue he brought up is the sky- rocketing of prices of basic commodities. Lastly, is the streamlining of VAT administration and, of course, as hon. Makali has indicated, the amendment is pro-poor. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, what hon. Mbadi has not indicated to this House is how the Government will be able to collect revenue and accomplish the many pledges it made. Secondly, I am a member of the Committee on Implementation and we already have 29 Motions and commitments which have been placed on the Floor of this House. All of them are targeting revenues. They are urging or resolving that the Government uses a lot of money in developing various industries, including the one that hon. Mbadi has indicated; that is, fishing industry. All that has to be done by ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so, hon. Mbadi has mentioned the areas that he wants to be amended. In fact, they are quite a number. I think they are over 20, but this is just a sub-title. When he talks about, for example, communication, that is a sub-title. Communication has so many other factors or aspects where the Government is collecting VAT. So, he needs to be a little bit specific so that, again, we do not leave it in a general state. When he says communication, if the records which we saw the other day are right, Safaricom is making ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. If that is the clarity, then that is good. You know, I was just listening since I did not have the Bill. Let me take the other component which is milk. I come from a place where the poverty index is high. He talked of milk product as a general issue. Cheese and butter, for example, are products that will never find their way into the houses of common Kenyans. If he has indicated the milk product as a general issue, I think that is where we would be cautious when looking The electronic ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: into these amendments. That is because, again, we do not want to have a Government that tried to reduce the vatable items for the purposes of it raising money. Again, if we reduce tax on these items, of course, we will be going back. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you look at the recent records that we have from the taxman, he has already attained the targets that he wanted. It is a good indication for this country. This means that most of the things that the Government had pledged to do are happening. So, we want to support this Bill but only on the aspect that it is only going to assist; not because we want to generalize. We want to be specific. This is like the fishing nets. Honestly, those are things that we need because that affects an ordinary common view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: on the shores of Lake Victoria, Lake Turkana or any other water body. Of course, even in Nakuru now, we have fish from the fish ponds and we use fishing nets. That is being done by peasant farmers who have decided to do fish farming. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, so as we look into the general issues of the amendments as it has been indicated, it is important to remember that the Government wants to attain the objective that it intended to. We have been pushing for the implementation of the resolution on 20 kilometres bitumen gravelling of our roads. ... view
• 11 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to be able to air my views. I think the Bill as it is, is in good spirit. I think what we have seen as has been indicated by the Leader of Majority Party is that if we can have standards of education being brought on board, I think it is long overdue. 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