James Gichuki Mugambi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as much as I support the Chair in opposing the tax on infant milk, I want to encourage our ladies to breastfeed children more because mother’s milk is healthy. It boosts immunity. We need a strong nation. Even the psychologists say that the suckling of children boosts their honesty and trustworthiness. As much as I oppose the tax on infant milk, we encourage our mothers to take the job of suckling more seriously and continue suckling our generations. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: There is the issue of tax administration. The Chair has read a raft of measures that will regulate a number of bodies. I take the issue of the Capital Markets Authority (CMA) Act. We have a problem in this country. I can confidently say that CMA presides over pyramid scheme in this country. We have a number of them which are running and extorting Kenyans. An organisation is formed and it announces high-yield funds. It tells Kenyans that they will earn 20 per cent or 30 The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: per cent interest. Once they collect money from the people, they tell them that they are unable to pay back because there is COVID-19 Pandemic. Anytime I go to my constituency where people have a strong culture of saving, the big part of my queues are people who come with papers to show me how much they have been defrauded by pyramid schemes. It is not my big job to name them. We know that Cytonn has really messed Kenyans. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: If you go online today, they are still advertising. They are still telling Kenyans to take their money to them for high-yields, and yet they have not paid their members for the last two years. That is why we have CMA. Kenyans should have faith in any organisation which is registered and regulated by the CMA. However, this is not the case. You remember the other one that told Kenyans to buy land and they will have their money back in three years. Kenyans invested. We need to strengthen CMA and ensure that it does its job. These kinds of ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We also need to tighten the definition of the word “control”. The definition that we have given the word “control” is messy. I know the gracious Chair has alluded to it. Saying that somebody who buys 80 per cent of your goods has control cannot be true. It will increase vagueness in our tax regime. view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will continue in the Evening Sitting. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support. This is a very important Bill. As you know, we are devolving Kshs370 billion to the county governments. This is quite a substantial amount of money that we all need to see that it is put into proper use. When you go round the counties, you will see a lot of wastage. There are many projects which were started and have not been completed. This happens to be a very risky year where everybody wants to start a project and leave it without caring whether it would be completed or ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: give all the money from the Exchequer and those funds are wrongly applied, we will never get value for our money. When you also look at the recurrent expenditure at the county level, it is worrying because the recurrent expenditure and mainly salaries, always take precedence over development. If we continue allocating huge amounts of devolved funds on salaries only, we will not go far. Some of those counties have been receiving extremely huge amounts of money. You see a county getting Kshs12 billion every year and in 10 years, they will have received Kshs120 billion. When you go to ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: For instance, we have devolved agriculture, which is the backbone of this country. Almost over 60 per cent of our economy is reliant on agriculture. When we have devolved agriculture and the funds allocated in that area are not properly applied, there is no way this country can move forward. Therefore, through this House, we request to strengthen the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act to ensure we have even stronger mechanism to guide and oversight the huge funds we are taking to the counties. We are pushing for the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) so as to increase funding up to ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: There is also another major role that has been devolved like environment, which is very critical in this country. But most counties do not take the environment seriously. In some cases, we have seen some counties hawking garbage. In my county, we have this practice where garbage is hawked from one constituency to another because of lack of proper plans. Yet, there are funds to do that kind of function. These are some of the very important functions that have been devolved and are not taken seriously at the county level. A function like environment is affecting our health, climate ... view