Franklin Mithika Linturi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: The other important thing is that it must be able to levy taxes. We say that Kenya is sovereign because it has that ability. We have our judicial system which we must protect jealously, because that is the only recourse that the very members of society, who will be aggrieved by the law that we pass or the excesses of the Executive, can run to for remedy. As the people who the public has ceded sovereign power to, we must behave responsibly because our Constitution states that since that sovereign power has been ceded to us for the greater good ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we have a serious duty to come to the defense of our people when we feel that things that have negative effect on them regardless of whether we belong to a party, a coalition or not. Our greater interest and the mandate that we have is to protect the people of Kenya and their interests. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: I thank the Mover of this Motion for bringing out the other aspect of public debt. We should not only concentrate on foreign debt. We have the other aspect of public debt which is internal or domestic. That is a very serious issue that the Executive need to address. If my memory serves me right, and I have not forgotten some bit of economics, the Government owes small-scale business people huge amounts of money in terms of supply of goods and services. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: We are complaining that Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) is under-collecting or not meeting targets. How can you meet targets or collect enough money when the Government which is the largest spender and biggest employer is not paying? When you do not pay, you do not collect VAT. You do not have income to declare at the end of the year and hence, you do not have Income Tax. So, it is a vicious cycle. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: The advisors must look at this and see how to address it. It makes things worse because most of our borrowers in this country are small borrowers. For example, when the Jubilee Administration said it was creating jobs, we came up with a law in 2015 to create a certain percentage of development funds to be applied in terms of small contracts to women, Persons with Disabilities (PwDs) and the youth. These people in society, for lack of capital and securities have gone further to get guarantors to guarantee them to borrow some money to do small supplies to the ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: We have caused a lot of pain because of poor management of the economic affairs of the country. When wrong fiscal policy decisions are made, we cannot expect things to run normally. Time has come when we must all sit down and ask ourselves how to come up with recommendations which will us assist us turn economy around. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we have got to a situation whereby we must also, if we want to move forward properly, see whether the current Constitution as it is serves us right. If, for example, we are getting into this problem because of a bloated Parliament with a workforce that is being paid for doing nothing or for having a 1,000 people doing work that can be done by 10 people, it is important that we relook at this matter. I have all through argued that we do not require 349 MPs in this country. I served as an MP under ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we need to ask ourselves what has been ailing Kenya such that every time that an election is called, the growth of the economy slows down because people are permanently in the streets. We must learn from the experience of other people if we have to be bright people. Only fools learn from their own experiences. We build on an economy for five years, when an election is called, we destroy all what we have built for five years because of an election that takes one day. view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Power sharing is an issue that we must also face head on. To address this, we must relook at our Constitution. When we served in 2008 in the nusu mkate Government, the country settled. Immediately the NARC Government took over under President Kibaki, there was semblance of peace and the economy grew by 7 per cent. After the 2007 elections, we destroyed the foundation that had been made but after the National Accord was passed, there was peace in the country because power was shared. We went on properly as one cohesive nation. Since we have learnt from our past ... view
• 20 Sep 2018 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, is the foundation that was laid by President Kibaki. I remember very well that he left this country with a public debt of around Kshs850 billion. Within six years, we have a public debt of Kshs5.6 trillion. It is too much. It is high time that we talked to one another as a nation because this matter affects all of us. view