David Mwalika Mboni

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I do not support this amendment by the Member. As the Leader of the Majority Party has said, any change will affect the planning of the census. I am talking as someone who worked in the KNBS before. We need to know that in any statistics or census, there are international methodologies, standards or guides which we have to follow and Kenya is not an exceptional. Thank you. view
• 7 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I do not support this amendment by the Member. As the Leader of the Majority Party has said, any change will affect the planning of the census. I am talking as someone who worked in the KNBS before. We need to know that in any statistics or census, there are international methodologies, standards or guides which we have to follow and Kenya is not an exceptional. Thank you. view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker and Hon. Waluke for giving me the few minutes to contribute to this Motion. In 2017, the Government launched a National Trade Policy which was aimed at enhancing export growth through value addition in export oriented manufacturing and justification to fully exploit the export opportunity in emerging markets. At the same time, the Trade Remedies Act was also enacted to address unfair trade practices from imports which have negative impact to our industries resulting to wide trade deficit. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified ... view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: A trade strategy was launched three weeks ago. If you look at all this, you will realise that they are trying to address our trade deficits. Last year, our trade deficit was Kshs1.1billion. Our balance of payments moved from a positive of Kshs16.9 billion to Kshs103 billion negative. This means that we are creating demand and employment in other countries and denying our country demand and employment. We need to really work on this so that we can see our country develop. One measure we need to do is to move from traditional exports like tea, coffee and view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: to minerals. We need to explore our minerals. This country does not lack minerals. We have a lot of oil in Turkana and other areas. We also have limestone and iron ore in Kitui and other areas. In fact, data on titanium shows that presently we export Kshs16 billion worth of titanium yet it is a mineral we started exporting recently. So, we need to focus on minerals so that we can earn from their sale. view
• 24 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: We also need to move from our traditional markets to emerging ones. We have markets in Asia, Brazil, Russia, India and China. We need to think about our neighbour Ethiopia. It is a very big market of over 60 million people. We need to fast-track the Lamu Port, South Sudan Ethiopia Transport (LAPSSET) project. We need a pipeline from Turkana to Lamu to export the oil. We also need a railway from Nairobi to Moyale to export our manufactured goods to Ethiopia. ` view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. First, I would like to thank the Committee for coming up with a balanced budget given the resources available. I think it is high time we come up with a balanced budget. When we look at the Budget, the demand for resources is quite high but the economy has really stagnated and, therefore, we cannot raise resources and revenues as required. We need to look at the expenditures which we have. Currently, the recurrent expenditure is going up, while the development expenditure is going ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly, we need to look at late submissions when it comes to expenditures on development. This occurs because of long procurement processes. Therefore, we need to look at the Public Procurement and Disposal Act to make it easier for MDAs to do procurements so that we can be able to absolve the money. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We also need to focus on incomplete projects. Everywhere, there are many incomplete projects. If the projects are not completed, then we are not getting benefits from them and, therefore, our economy cannot grow. Remember most of the projects are donor-funded. There are many dams. In Kitui, we have Thwake and Umaa dams which have not been completed. We urge the Committee to give us money to complete those dams. Lastly is on relief food. Most of us who come from Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs) are facing food shortages because of lack of rain. As the Departmental Committee on ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: should be returned so that the people who are suffering from food shortage in ASALs and districts can get adequate food. I support. Thank you. view