Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1351 to 1360 of 1643.

• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the reason why I am proposing this further amendment is that I have looked at the country with the best case practices against corruption. China has the best case scenario and Chinese have been very hard on corruption. Corruption is the number one evil and, therefore, this is going to be the remedy. view
• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, finally, some Members have raised the issue of the death penalty but my rebuttal to that is very simple: One, how come we are not saying that robbers and murderers are not going to face the death penalty? The death penalty is still in our statute books. Therefore, so long as it is still there, you cannot support corrupt people and forget about the robbers and murderers. If you do not like death penalty, remove it against murderers, those doing treason, and everyone else. Secondly, the effect of corruption is that it is making our children ... view
• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The proposals are very good except the one relating to the representation into the Council where you have a public university getting one representation, which is the same as the private university. Taking into account that this is a public body funded by public funds and where public interest must always supersede private interest; and also taking into account the nature of the legal profession where it is becoming very elitist and where the students coming under the public realm are now being whittled down, I am of the view that we increase the number of representation for public universities ... view
• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the re-committal because we all know the effect and importance of land control boards. I would foresee a situation where if the law is passed the way it is, so many women and children are going to lose their land because one of the key functions of those boards is to protect the vulnerable because members of those boards happen to know the local conditions. You cannot depend on the Registrar to protect the rights of women and children. So I support The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. ... view
• 13 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: the re-committal. Hon. Members should very seriously think around the issue of the intended decision to do away with land control boards. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support this Bill. It is very timely. Again, there are issues that I would bring to the attention of this House. The first one is the proposed Section 1 of the Finance Bill, 2014. Section 1(a) reads as follows:- “This Act may be cited as the Finance Act 2014 and shall come into operation or be deemed to have come into operation as follows:- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: (i) Sections 5, 8, 20, 24 on the 13th June, 2014”. view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Then Part B provides Sections 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 and 38, on 1st July 2014. I am interested with what the Mover of this Bill has said in convincing us on the rationality of retrospective application of this law. I am aware that tax laws can be retrospective. Again, taking into account the effects of retrospective law on an individual, it will mean then that you are supposed to pay tax from the dates of the commencement of the law, notwithstanding that there was no law as at that time. That is a major factor. Therefore, the Mover ought ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: supported by the society. It should not be left to the parents or to pupils to pay. Therefore, taking into account the amendments relating to the Income Tax, I am of the view that it is possible for one to include such kind of clauses under this new law. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allow me to comment on the proposed amendments to the Competition Act, 2010. The Competition Act creates what we call a Competition Authority whose work is to check or ensure that Kenya moves towards what we call a perfect competitive income; or the perfect conditions for a ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: and Enterprise, the power to exclude a company from the realm of the whole issue of being checked by the Competition Authority. Therefore, I am of the view that, that is a very dangerous clause. You are empowering the Authority to come up with whims and reasons to exempt a company. The best objective manner to ensure there is no misuse of power, either by the CS or the by the Authority, is to do two things:- (i) To provide that the Authority, before excluding any category or decisions or practices from application of that law, reasons must be stated ... view