Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rise on Standing Order No.95 to request that the Mover of the Motion be called upon to reply. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I would like to congratulate the Committee for the job well done. I would specially like to congratulate the Chair. I sit in the Public Accounts Committee and on several occasions, we have had a chance to interact with the Chair. I can tell the Special Funds Accounts Committee that they have a very able Chair. view
• 18 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I have one contribution to make and I will use the Adam Smith’s Principle on taxation. One of the principles of taxation is the benefits principle. In his book, The Wealth of Nations, Chapter two, Adam smith says that the allocation of resources in the public sector must respond directly to the consumer wishes. When you are allocating funds to the NG-CDF, the first thing we do is conduct a public participation exercise. What does the community and the society need? That is why I was saying, if there is any fund in this country that should be protected, that ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was listening to Hon. Chris speak about those embassies that do not add value and that they should be closed down. I could not help but cheer him on. A Government should find out what the return is on any investment it makes. It is not just about operating these embassies but finding out what value they bring. I would like to first applaud this Committee for the good Report they have done. I would like to make contributions based on three countries. I will start with China. China is one ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The Member is misleading about where I am getting these figures from. I am getting them from the Report that you did; the imports and exports, the balance of trade. For you to calculate the rate of increase or decrease on imports or exports, you just need to use a calculator and analyse it. On the issue of provinces, I am not an authority in this. I asked the Committee to confirm whether there are 22 or 23. Again, I am not an authority in the number of provinces that exist in China. Back to my line of thought, our ... view
• 4 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support this Report. view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise in support of this Report on the consideration of Urban Areas and Cities (Amendment) Bill of 2017. We cannot over-emphasise the adage that failing to plan is planning to fail. At last, I am seeing 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
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: the light at the end of the tunnel because we are going to define what our cities are, what our urban centres are and what our towns are. I am particularly impressed by Clause 18(b) section 60 that talks about the amendment of the principal Act by defining what those urban towns are. I am highly impressed that all those towns that have a population of between 50,000 and 249,000 will now be conferred a municipal status. I am more impressed because two of my major towns, Molo and Elburgon, will therefore fall under this. Clause 49(a) talks about the ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Report by the Hon. Members. There are several areas that we should try to overemphasise. The Report talks about the Kenya Revenue Authority and the challenges that it is experiencing in terms of its delivery of tax collection from Kenyans. There is a specific clause that we need to overemphasise to the KRA. We have passed budget in this House on several occasions on the implementation of the regional electronic cargo tracking system that ensures that cargo is tracked from the time it docks at the port to the ... view
• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: companies are now finding it cheaper to incorporate and operate business in Tanzania or Uganda and export their products and services into Kenya. Even when we sit here to talk about the EAC and market it as a regional bloc, as both a market for our goods and services and for labour, we should make sure that our country is not disadvantaged. With that, I support this Report. view