Francis Kigo Njenga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am in order to say that men fought for Independence. Probably, I will add that women also contributed in the construction of this House because I am a political entrepreneur. However, the truth that we have funds favouring a certain sector of the community and not favouring equally another sector of the community who are men is a fact. We are saying that let there be a fund for all so that we live to the Constitution. view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, affirmative or not, facts are facts. I believe that we have been made equal by the Constitution. Let all these funds be merged so that we can have one single fund that can be managed at the constituency level. Let men also be given priority to participate in the economic development of our country. Let men be given the dignity they deserve. Let that be done alongside the youth and the women of this country because we are all one in the eyes of our Lord and the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 15 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Constitution of Kenya which is the supreme law. We need a fund for men to be included among other funds so that we also become dignified men as we grow old as most of us are above 35 years old. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, if there is anything that is scaring people in this country, it is the way people are suffering. Alongside food, air and water, health is very key. I suggest that it is high time, especially for those of us who control money in this country, organized to have money going to the health sector in the counties and earmarked for medicine and other facilities, otherwise, we will lose our people. view
• 20 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: In my constituency, jus the other day there was nothing for someone involved in an accident. He died as people watched. The other day a kid died as people watched. What I am thinking is that as a Parliament of representatives of the people, let us do what it takes at the Budget and Appropriations Committee, all Committees and the Speaker to take control of how health is managed in this country. I believe that our people are suffering. They have suffered enough and political interference is becoming expensive for our people. We need to look for a way to ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you. I stand to support this Bill. First, we know very well that the bulk of our ordinary revenue comes from taxation and this Bill tends to address the issues of taxation articulately. I am most interested in where they are insisting that for one to handle tax matters, they need to be a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), a practising accountant. This is something that will reduce the problems that have been there when quacks are asked to do returns pretending to be accountants. Also important is the ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: I also realize that it has addressed itself on petroleum business on the contractors. Petroleum is quite a lucrative business in this country especially if researches and explorations are successful. Earlier, the transfer of interests called for Withholding Tax but now this will be amended so that people dealing with petroleum will have to pay taxes on their net gain and should losses occur, they are carried forward to subsequent years for utilization when such firms make profit. This is good. It will make it competitive and in case of huge profits, we shall not lose businessmen. It is very ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: My other feeling is that governors in this country are capable of collecting and assisting us in increasing our tax base. Our tax base can increase. We can raise revenue. I always remember that some ten years ago, we only raised about Kshs215 billion. By last year, we were past a trillion shillings. So, it means that the potential for Kenya to collect taxes from Kenyans is big. I look at our counties and think we can still exploit the resources which are there. We still can let governors work. They need to have their money increased but they have ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: be called to account for money. There should be a report to show how they spend money. If they have misappropriated funds, they should go to jail just like the land grabbers of Lamu and others. If governors go to jail, Kenyans will know how to protect resources that come from the Central Government. I am talking because my county of Kiambu is affected. The people of Kiambu should not suffer because of one governor, William Kabogo. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another thing that I feel we need also to look into is this issue of accessibility to records. I think the Chairman should also look into this. This is good because we need to do an in depth and compliance audit any one time that we feel one is not declaring adequate taxes. However, this can also become a loophole where tax officers enter into people’s premises and collect unnecessary records, sometimes without the people knowing and create tax liabilities which they then use to threaten them and coerce money from them. This has happened in ... view