George Gitonga Murugara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to rise and make a contribution… view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I am speaking for myself. I would like to make a very important contribution to the budget-making process that we are engaged in now as we prepare for the Financial Year 2021/2022. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Out there, Kenyans are watching us. They are anxious to know exactly what we are doing and especially what the Cabinet Secretary is coming to tell Parliament tomorrow as regards to expenditure in their country. From time immemorial, it has always been that the budget-making process is a process where Kenyans are burdened by the Government through heavy taxation, heavy borrowing and increase of prices of consumables that support the daily livelihood of Kenyans. It is vitally important for us to note that from the 2010 Constitution, Parliament was granted the sole role of budget-making in the country. Therefore, in ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: any water in your constituency, then you must swallow the bitter pill. The bitter pill is to approve higher taxation, increase the debt ceiling and ensure that even commodities that we consume have higher prices through increasing Value Added Tax (VAT) and other taxes. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Having said this, we are possibly going to swallow that bitter pill because we do not have otherwise. The Government needs revenue so that it can run, and the country needs money so that it can develop. However, there is a trend that is emerging especially through our budget-making process whereby 60 to 70 per cent of the estimates consist of Recurrent Expenditure; that is money which is consumed with no returns. What we are left with is 30 per cent, which we try to distribute to development as a result of which there is very little we can do. ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Allow me to briefly explain and use my constituency as an example of what previous budgets have actually done and why the citizens constantly say that Parliament is not playing its role properly in budget-making and where it plays the role, it is a question of moving musical chairs. The Executive is giving with one hand and taking with the other hand. Today, we are going to approve these Estimates but soon after we pass the Finance Bill and do the supplies, we will have numerous Supplementary Budgets removing funds from one Vote to another. As a result of this, ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Citizens in this country expect returns for their public monies, whether the money is raised through taxation by the Kenya Revenue Authority or it is borrowed because taxes are their sweat while borrowed money is a burden that is going to be borne by them for many years. We cannot be oblivious of this fact. We must always speak for it. view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Let us begin with the Judiciary. On this one, allow me to speak as a mere member of the Justice and Legal Affairs Committee. Year in, year out, we allocate very little monies to the Judiciary. Last year, it was Kshs17 billion. This year, it is Kshs17 billion. That money is meant for Recurrent Expenditure only while we know for sure, through the Committee, that we have almost 80 per cent of court buildings works in various counties and constituencies which have stalled. How then do we expect those court buildings to be completed and after completion, we may be ... view
• 9 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: money that we allocate through the Budget Estimates go to? Are Kenyans receiving returns for their taxes and for the borrowings? Those are my comments regarding these Estimates. view