Hon Didmus Wekesa Barasa Mutua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: coming up with corrective action. It is on this basis that I want the Committee to provide a Statement on the role of NTSA and the Traffic Department of NPS in mitigating against those very many accidents that are eating into the population of this country. view
• 19 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to add my voice on this Bill, which I support. Let me take a few minutes to say what I think is not good and needs to be changed through amendments. The economy of this country is driven by SMEs and the proposal to include digital marketing and outside catering to be within the tax bracket will completely hurt that sub-sector. I want to bring to the attention of the House that SMEs are very fragile and the only way that the Government can guard, protect and nurture them ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: day, it appears that we have pilferages within KRA. If they collect money from Kenyans and they do not remit it to Government, it will mean that going forward into the future, the Government must also increase the taxation of Kenyans and businesses to be able to fund their programmes. The Government has also become over-ambitious by coming up with very many projects which must be funded. The Government is not living within its means. This means that they come up with ambitious budget proposals and when it comes to looking for money, they are digging deeper into the pockets ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this very important matter. This House needs an oversight framework so that various committees can clearly oversee how the Government spends the money that we give it. This is because the oversight activities that are being done within the committees solely depend on the creativity of the chair. If you have a chair who feels like he is an extension of the Executive, then there is nothing that will happen in terms of oversight. I want us to narrow down the occasions where state agencies would appear before ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving this opportunity to support this Report. It is indeed a very good Report. I take this opportunity to thank the Chair for having written such a conclusive and insightful Report that will go a long way to assist artists in the country. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: If there is an industry that has been deprived of its rights and completely impoverished, it is the film industry and artists. These are people who never benefit from their own industry. The Report will assist Kenyan artists. But even as I hail the Report as being one of its kinds and hopefully one of the best, I must raise concern over implementation of such Reports. This House should not be taken for a ride. Going forward, every report that is tabled and adopted, government agencies must implement it so that Kenyans can enjoy the fruits that come with implementation ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I urge other chairpersons of Committees to follow the footsteps of this Committee because it has been tabling very good Reports on the Floor of the House. They should benchmark with what the Committee is doing so that we can begin to restore public confidence that, this House is a representative of the people and whatever comes out of it must be seen to improve the economic wellbeing of Kenyans and their social wellbeing, going forward. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those very few remarks, I support and appreciate the Committee for doing a very good job. Thank you. view
• 12 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. As much as we know the role of the Commission on Revenue Allocation, it is important for the Commission to understand that it is this House that knows where the Government is going to get money from. Even as they decide how much money we should allocate to counties, they must listen to us because we are the people who understand where the Government gets the money from. view