David Gikaria

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I totally agree with you on your directive regarding Hon. Barasa and whether he can ask a Question as a Member of a Committee. One day, I asked a Question directed to my own Committee and the Speaker came to my defence. He said that I have a right, as the Member for Nakuru Town East, to ask that Question. You are perfectly in order. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not know whether a Question has reached your desk regarding the directive by the Cabinet Secretary for Education on closure of some schools. I asked ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I may not have read the Standing Orders properly and I just asked a normal Question, but I asked that it be answered urgently as per the Standing Orders. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thank the Mover of this very important Bill. Hon. Deputy Speaker, Protect me from these two Members. view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: I agree with the Mover of the Bill. In the last Parliament, Hon. Kang’ata had proposed a death sentence for anybody involved in this kind of crime. The House, in its wisdom, decided to have not more than a 10 year jail term and a fine of not more than Kshs1 million. We also need to be very careful as Members of Parliament. We are saying this because sometimes the agencies that are bestowed with the responsibility to undertake investigations act with malice. As we look at the amendments brought by Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, we also need to be very ... view
• 9 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: look at justice and the way it is done in this country, you get scared because of the way these agencies reason. I totally agree with Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, but at the same time, we need to be very careful. Sometimes you might end up becoming a victim, if fairness is not done properly. How I wish we will be here in our numbers when we will be making a decision to pass or not to pass this Bill. However, I agree that corruption is a vice that needs to be taken care of in this country. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to seek your guidance. Hon. Jude Njomo has brought this amendment to the Banking Act. We have voted to retain the capping. However, the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning brought another Bill just the other day. The same issue has been brought back. The Chair, in his amendment, was proposing to remove the cap. We need some guidance. Now that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning will be bringing his amendments under the Finance Bill and he has cited various Acts, and ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Once again, I thank my dear sister for bringing this very important amendment Bill on matters of adoption of children. For some of us who come from urban areas, we are seeing a trend where too many kids are being brought to the streets to live as street families. There is also the trend of young mothers or women getting pregnant and abandoning their children either by wanting to kill them or throwing them away. It is a worrying state of affairs that has brought this country to where it is. As Hon. Martha ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: at it. There are foreigners who are not as evil as we think. It would really help if this country considered that. It is not only foreigners who become animals to the children they adopt. It can also happen in the hands of the locals. It is important we look at adoption. The law on adoption is so punitive that by the time you are given an opportunity to adopt, you have gone through so much. It is high time this country tried to lessen that. Of course, it was meant to stop people of ill motives. At the same ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Just to confirm, yes, I drink. The best thing that we also need to ask ourselves is: Do we increase taxes on cigarettes and alcohol to stop people from drinking or to raise revenue? I am saying this because in urban areas, if you continue increasing taxes on the known alcohol, then people will revert to the illicit ones. At the end of the day, you end up encouraging people to take more of the illicit brews. So, it is important for us to also start looking at it from that angle. Even though, I support. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The Member behind the Leader of the Majority Party is consulting loudly. We will move on to the Tax Procedures Act. view