31 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
Now that they are going to be working on an amendment they are agreeing on, I am just trying to agree with Hon. Oundo. As you do that, please, put a mandatory requirement for ADR Before they go to any tribunal, there is a level that they settle the issues at the community level within the region before someone goes to some umpire, that is like a court system. That is going to help because we cannot have any small issue between farmers of certain crops or tussles taken to the tribunal. Let us have a way of solving issues ...
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31 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Chairlady, the primary reason for this Bill is to revive the failed cotton industry. Our history as a country has shown that every time we introduce a levy, the body that we are creating here today will be looking forward to raising money, and not developing the cotton industry. That is my fear. We have seen this throughout. You may know this today, and with no pun intended, that the Housing Levy money cannot be used. It is just lying there. The Railway Development Levy, that we introduced in the last term, is also just lying there and ...
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31 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Chairlady.
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31 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I am just wondering whether at this stage we can have that. This is like a tax. I am wondering whether, at this stage, we can introduce a tax on something we did not conduct participation on; and whereby the sector has not considered it and we have not done public participation on it. We are opening ourselves up to 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.
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31 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
litigation. I request that we retain what there was because that is what we did public participation on. This one, as it is, may open us up to litigation because public participation was not done on it.
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25 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I want to ask Hon. Members to forgive the Senate for they do not know what they are doing. There are people who just keep yapping everyday but they do not know how money is made and how it is allocated. I would request this House to be the big brother. Let us not kill the Senate. Let us forgive them for they do not know what they are doing.
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25 Jul 2024 in National Assembly:
Please, let us allow them to have their monies. Let them do their job. That is my plea to my fellow Hon. Members. Let us not get into tuff wars. They say that when they go low, we go high. Let them be.
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13 May 2024 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.
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13 May 2024 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I have been listening to Leader of the Majority Party. Is it in order for him to keep on referring to Hon. Wamboka as if he made a mistake in bringing this Motion? This is because, all through his speech, he is insinuating that it was a mistake for him to bring this Motion. Is it in order to do that?
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24 Apr 2024 in National Assembly:
Thank you so much, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thank Hon. Ruweida for bringing this timely Motion. 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
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