Dennis Kariuki Waweru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I would want to start by congratulating my friend, hon. Moses Kuria and hon. Stephen Kariuki. Coincidentally, they both come from Gatundu. I would want to take this opportunity to congratulate you for being elected to this House. I support what the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Budget and Appropriations has said. I would want to say that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill that we have just tabled outlines how counties are going to vertically share revenue; the Kshs226.6 billion. But I would want to say one or two things. One, I would ... view
• 14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: feeling is that we need to relook at the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) formula to make sure that we get a fair share. I am not saying that Turkana is getting a lot of revenue; Turkana is getting 9.1 per cent and Mandera 7.8 per cent. Considering the population, it is important to look at this formula and see how much we can add to some of the counties like Kiambu which has a population of two million people and yet it is only allocated under Kshs6.5 billion. With those remarks, I beg to second. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I want to say from the outset that I do support this Bill. I want first to support the Leader of Majority Party that accountability is not negotiable. Those four governors moving around from one media House to another should know where they belong is to face hon. Khalwale. They should not waste time moving around from one media house to another telling us about referendum; the issue is being accountable! I want to support this Bill because one, the Bill seeks to amend the competition Act to provide for clarity and to align the international ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: between 2002 and 2011 comparatively to Tanzania that lost over US$1.8 billion; Uganda; Kshs884 million and Ghana; Kshs1.4 billion. So, I want to support this Bill which seeks to correct those anomalies. I support this Bill because it also seeks to harmonise taxation especially in the new mining sector, petroleum, natural gas, coal and all those new resources. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: I would not finish before I comment on the talks that I have heard in the media talking about increasing the devolved funding to an excess of Kshs435 billion. I am a Member of the Budget and Appropriations Committee and I have been wondering where this money will come from. If you look at the revenues that we collected in the last financial year, it was around Kshs1 billion. If you see how the application was done, you will see that we devolved Kshs226 billion and we gave Kshs150 billion to security; Kshs260 billion to the Ministry of Health and ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: fear to account to any Parliamentary Committee. So, I urge my brother, Mr. Mwangi wa Iria, hon. Kabogo and that other guy from Bomet, Isaac Rutto, I do not know why he wastes a lot of time. He should have honoured his date with Khalwale. I would also want to ask the Kisumu Governor not to waste time. He should come and account for the people of Kenya. “ Hii pesa sioyenu ”. This money belongs to the Kenyan public. So, we are coming and we might even be tempted to take this to the referendum as a question. We ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a good Bill and from the outset I want to state clearly that I support it. In this country, we have had an import bill in excess of 50 per cent from oil. We know that we have discovered oil and natural gas in various parts of this country and our goal should be in making sure that this brings prosperity to this country and not misery as it has been the case in other countries. So, I would like to tell hon. Members to compare countries that have had these kinds of resources ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, this is a good Bill and from the outset I want to state clearly that I support it. In this country, we have had an import bill in excess of 50 per cent from oil. We know that we have discovered oil and natural gas in various parts of this country and our goal should be in making sure that this brings prosperity to this country and not misery as it has been the case in other countries. So, I would like to tell hon. Members to compare countries that have had these kinds of resources ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Initially, the companies that do exploration might not be the ones that end up getting the oil from the earth. It might not necessarily be the initial company that sunk in billions of shillings into the discovery of these resources that ends up getting the oil out. So I would like to urge our Members to be considerate to those companies that put in a lot of money initially and are not certain that they will recoup their investment in this. So, we need to be considerate about the benefits that accrue to it so that we can attract additional ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Initially, the companies that do exploration might not be the ones that end up getting the oil from the earth. It might not necessarily be the initial company that sunk in billions of shillings into the discovery of these resources that ends up getting the oil out. So I would like to urge our Members to be considerate to those companies that put in a lot of money initially and are not certain that they will recoup their investment in this. So, we need to be considerate about the benefits that accrue to it so that we can attract additional ... view