Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

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• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of Chinese contractors. They have taken over the contract business in this country and became wise. When it was resolved that Chinese contractors should only get contracts worth more than Kshs1 billion, they are now using local people. They are taking IDs of Kenyans and youths. You will find a Chinese contractor with a certificate. They claim to be women, youth and people with disabilities. We love our Chinese relations but for us to develop as a country, we must say no to neo-colonialism. Even mining contracts in our constituencies could very easily be manipulated ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am rising on a point of order according to Standing Order No.96 that debate be now adjourned. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Our Leader of the Majority Party and my able Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning have very well elaborated on the issues and, therefore, no Member seems to want to contribute to this Bill. So we adjourn. view
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this chance to contribute to this Bill. I have been following the conversation, especially contribution by the Leader of the Minority Party, Hon. Mbadi, and I am wondering really if the discussion of killing a Member’s Bill should even be a discussion at this time. The work of a Member of Parliament, above everything else, is legislation and if an Hon. Member has taken his time and 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
• 14 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: energy for the last one year to draft a Bill that is supposed to cure something that has not been legislated before, whether or not another Bill has come or whether that Bill has gone to wherever it is, I think it is only fair that we support such a Bill. I also sit in the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and when we took over with the able leadership of our Chair, there was a lot of pending business, one of which was this Bill because in the last Parliament, where the Leader of the Minority Party ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. I am looking at these several pieces of legislation and I find very rich contributions and clauses that will enrich the law in this country. view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: On the issue of betting, I hold a contrary view to what most of the Hon. Members have said. On this matter of betting, we have to agree that betting in this country is here to stay, whether it is in Kenya or any other part of the world. Are we taxing it to prevent it or raise revenue for this country? We must also remember that if we are only taxing it to punish betting companies and not abolish it all together, betting can be done online. This, therefore, means that for me to place a bet, I do ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: bought pieces of land in various parts of the country did so through cooperatives. I am of the opinion that the qualifications proposed for the people to sit in the investment committees will more or less kill them. The old men and women who hardly had any form of education were able to run the SACCOs so well that they performed very well. It is only starting from the year 2000 that we have had collapse of many SACCOs when we started introducing technocrats who talk much English but take very little action. The only thing they do in SACCO ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I am very excited at how the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill clearly defines who a local contractor is. There has been a lot of debate about inclusion of Chinese contractors in this country. But the Bill now defines who exactly a local contractor is. It even says that whoever purports or attempts to incorporate or register themselves as local contractors when they are not will be punished. We are losing a lot of business, jobs and contracts to people from China, Japan and Asian countries that would have been done by our youth. On Micro and Small Enterprises, if ... view