David Ole Sankok

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity also to add my voice on this very important Bill. From the outset, I support and congratulate Hon. (Ms.) Gladys Wanga for elaborating most of the issues and eloquently educating us on these issues. As the Member before had indicated, I am now happy that we now have two more female Members of Parliament (MPs) who have just joined Hon. (Ms.) Dennitah Ghati to hear us. It was shocking that they took off immediately Hon. (Ms.) Wanga took the Floor especially when we are discussing their tool ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We can talk of exemption and collection of taxes if we can broaden the base for collecting our taxes without hurting the poor. We need to protect Kenyan citizens. We are in a country where our social protection systems are really in dire need. For instance, solar energy should be made very cheap and affordable. Cooking gas must also be zero rated. The cost of paraffin should be reduced because we are going towards green energy yet we are introducing taxes on gas. If you introduce taxes on gas, especially for us who are environmentalists who conserve Mau Forest, we ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when I travel to Narok, sometimes I get stranded in Mai Mahiu because the fuel prices have gone up too high. It is high time that we talk with the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning so that we can rethink the 8 per cent VAT levy that we added on fuel. We need to remove it. It is time to remove it especially when Kenyans are suffering. In South Rift, we are the highest producers of potatoes and eggs, but eggs are imported from Uganda and potatoes from Tanzania. This is ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We also need to protect persons with disabilities. In Kenya, we have 400,000 wheelchair users. If each wheelchair costs Kshs30,000, then Kenyans sit on a metal worth Kshs12 billion in terms of wheelchairs. We have 500,000 calipers users in this country and 700,000 crutches users. Most of this equipment is donation from philanthropists outside this country, yet we tax them. Some of the donors have shied away from donating these very important mobility devices because when they donate, they are asked to pay taxes on the donations. So, we should also consider zero rating assistive and mobility devices. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, are you aware that if my crutches break here and now, I have to be carried by Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah and Hon. Mbadi because those are my friends in the House or else I will have to crawl out of this House? view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I cannot allow Hon. Wanga to carry me because the hands can do the moving. We need to zero- rate these devices. We have many Kenyans with corrective disabilities like Kenyans with cleft palates, lordosis, kyphosis, hydrocephalus and bow legs. These ones can be corrected. We have only one hospital called the Cure International in Kijabe which does corrective surgeries in the whole of East and Central Africa and north and south of Limpopo. We have that hospital, yet the Government is not even aware that it exists. Every year, it conducts 2,000 corrective surgeries to correct some persons’ disabilities ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Pukose is arguing with me. I am a beneficiary. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Of course, Hon. Pukose is one of the surgeons who have performed many corrective surgeries and assisted many persons with disability. Sometimes he does it free of charge. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The only thing I forgot is that Cure International, Kijabe, does corrective surgeries free of charge. They do not charge anything at all even when it comes to bed and the food a patient eats while going through surgery. That is what I forgot. They get donations from outside the country and from philanthropists in the country. The African Inland Church (AIC) donates too for those who believe in carrying money in sacks to take to churches. Some of the money that is carried in sacks to churches goes to corrective surgery at Cure International, Kijabe. With due respect to ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Let us think of 2,600 persons with disability who would have been a burden to the Government. Their disabilities are corrected completely and they are no longer a burden to the Government, yet these items are not exempted from taxes like importing motor vehicles duty free. It reduces the burden. I talk passionately about the Kijabe Mission Hospital because I am a beneficiary of Cure International. After becoming disabled as a result of a doctor’s injection when I was 12 years old, we did not know where to go. So, I crawled for almost two years and ended up having ... view