David Mwaniki Ngugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I brought this Question about a week ago. It is by Private Notice. I expected to have had an answer by Tuesday, this week. Today is Thursday. Poor Kenyans are being deducted Kshs500. Could the Assistant Minister assure this House that he will take corrective actions if the poor Kenyans will have suffered as a result of the Ministry not having been able to answer the Question or taking the necessary measures? view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: to ask the Minister for Finance:- (a) Is the Minister aware that share applicants in the just concluded Safaricom IPO who applied through Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT) have todate neither been informed their share allocations nor received their refunds? (b) Why do such applicants, as well as those without bank accounts, have to pay Kshs500 to the banks in order to get their cheques cleared? (c) What urgent action will the Minister take to ensure that all applicants are informed of the shares allocated and that the banks do not charge the Kshs500 to clear cheques? view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think fair is fair. If we have to bear with the side of the Government, it is only fair that they also bear with this side. When we just entered the Chamber, an hon. Member's Question was dropped! view
• 2 Jul 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this very important Motion. It is very well known that in the governance of the country, there are always three arms: the Executive, the Legislature, which is Parliament, and the Judiciary. Unless those three arms check on each other and work in harmony, there is bound to be some imbalance. In the making of July 2, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 1557 the Budget, what has been happening is that the Government has been the one that has been making the Budget. It has been deciding for the people. Parliament, which is the ... view
• 26 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir. I want to make a correction, for the third time, that my names are Mr. David Ngugi, Member of Parliament for Kinangop. Time and again, even the Speaker himself has been confusing me with Mr. Njuguna, who is my neighbour in Lari Constituency. He is a tall man and I am not too tall. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on taxes, which I have risen to support. As a matter of principle, I want to say this. It is very good ... view
• 26 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, that is where I come to my pet topic of corruption. Unless we close holes and see that the taxes we pay do not end up in a few individuals' pockets through contracts, then more and more Kenyans will be discouraged to pay taxes. I want to commend the Minister for Finance for coming up with taxation proposals that are not too punitive. But, in my view, some of them are not so wide. If you take, for example, the issue of allowing Kshs150,000 interest on a scheme for the National Housing Corporation, that is ... view
• 26 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: who are supposed to benefit from that relief are still suffering. I would even have proposed lowering Value Added Tax (VAT) which is directly affecting the common man rather than zero-rating those few items. Moreover, one of the items that is consumed by every Kenyan, whether poor or rich, is sugar. That is not one of the items that was included here. I am looking forward to seeing that, that is zero-rated in future, so that there can be more benefits to Kenyans. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I also want to commend the Minister for Finance for zero-rating tax ... view
• 26 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: businesses. Many youths are buying those motorbikes. They are able to offer some 1468 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES June 26, 2008 transport at a cost to areas outside the towns, which are, otherwise, un-reachable. Those are the areas that even matatus do not go. So, I thought that was ingenious on the part of the Minister for Finance to encourage the growth of that industry. Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, the Minister for Finance allowed some tax relief on gymnasium equipment for hotels. I thought that was a little bit narrow because the health of the people is not only in the ... view
• 19 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me an opportunity to contribute to the Budget Speech, which was read by the Minister for Finance a few days ago. Before I do so, let me clear one issue. My name is David Ngugi, Member of Parliament for Kinangop. Yesterday, and the day before, my colleagues came to me and told me that there was a Question that I was supposed to ask, but I failed to turn up. It was not me, but my neighbour from Lari Constituency. Mr. Speaker, Sir, may I start by congratulating my neighbour, the Minister for ... view
• 19 Jun 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, what I said is that corruption is a big menace in this country. I was explaining that, for example, in the roads sector, because of corruption, only about 35 per cent or 40 per cent of what is allocated goes into real road construction. The rest, possibly, would go to corruption, unless the Member is defending corruption. view