Erastus Kivasu Nzioka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On my behalf, my family and the people of Mbooni, I convey my sincere heartfelt condolences to the family of the late second President of the Republic of Kenya, Mzee Daniel arap Moi. We have lost a humble, generous, humorous, God-fearing and focused leader. We miss the maziwa ya nyayo and the roadside songs that we used to sing. We have lost a great leader. view
• 10 Feb 2020 in National Assembly: May his soul rest in eternal peace. Thank you. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I support New Clause 9A because the period which has been given to scrutinise the budget is quite very short. This will give us ample time to look at the budget and see where the wastage is. We can remove non-essential services and have a reasonable budget. When it comes to the New Clause 9B, especially the Treasury Single Account, we need to push the Government to implement the Treasury Single Account. Parastatals have a lot of idle money and this money is deposited in commercial banks. This is the same money which the Government is going to borrow and ... view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I support this amendment. It is long overdue because you cannot talk about spending when you do not even know where you are going to get your resources to spend. You know very well that this country is fighting a huge debt. This is because of situations where you propose your Budget Estimates and you do not even know where you are going to get the resources to finance the budget. If you can remember, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 19 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: last year the increase on VAT was rejected in the Finance Bill. We had to go back and re-do the budget and come up with a supplementary budget. So, this is a very good way of doing the budget. Thank you. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I second the Report of the Departmental Committee on Communication, Information and Innovation on the inquiry into the legislative and regulatory gaps affecting competition in the telecommunication sub-sector. I am a Member of that Committee and I was involved in the deliberations during the submissions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: First, on the spectrum, we realised that the allocation of spectrums lacks transparency, uniformity and fairness. With that, the spectrum is being fixed arbitrarily and requires upfront payments. This is a bit exorbitant for new entrants. The Kshs25 billion to be raised by a new entrant is a bit high. The request to stagger the payments will ensure that the charges to consumers are reduced. The request to have clear guidelines on applications, allocation and usage of spectrum resources is highly recommended. On the issue of money transfer, we noted during the submissions that mobile money loans have too high ... view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: With regard to data collection, when mobile money services are being registered, a lot of data is collected from the users. We do not know how this data is being used. That poses a risk when it comes to confidentiality of consumers’ data. It needs to be safeguarded. view
• 2 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, on the issue of content of service providers, many of them are setting up prohibitive rights for the consumers to access content services via the short code services. Subscribers keep on receiving unsolicited messages. The messages come with a cost, which is not regulated. There is, therefore, need to formulate and publish some guidelines or regulations on the licensing of the mobile network operators as content service providers with clear obligations on how they are supposed to provide the services. view