Hon Jeremiah Omboko Milemba

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: severely. It is important we make our comments. I begin by speaking on the issue of flour, bread and taxes on basic requirements and needs of the people. There are certain basic needs that every family would require. Other than flour and bread there is the cooking gas. We have been toying around with the issue of cooking gas for some time and delaying VAT on that particular item. As Parliament, we should consider extending that reprieve on cooking gas. What has happened is that with increased price of paraffin, which was mostly used, most of the families are now ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: I support the Chair and the Committee on that one. Also, flour should not be taxed so that view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: i is not be hurt. My predecessor speaker was trying to allude to the French Revolution where the price of bread became too high that those in the civility and the nobles who were living in the palaces did not know that the normal mwananchi could not afford cakes, leave alone bread. He did not also mention the number of shoes that that lady, Maria Antoinette, had. Her pairs of shoes were overwhelming. That description in history shows the difference and gap in living standards between those who were rich and those who were poor and it is very important ... view
• 22 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: am happy you are looking in my eyes. Reprieve like through the PAYE, the Corporate Tax, or the Income Tax, but definitely PAYE for workers. As we support everybody else and ask workers to take reprieve from what otherwise should have been their rights, which we shall discuss elsewhere, then this is the correct law to propose a raft of measures on how to support workers who are also greatly hit by COVID-19 as we progress. Finally, is the issue of TIVET. The proposal by the Chair looks like it will limit the number of people who will be absorbed ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, it is true. Like it has been said, the Chair had issues with the budget and there were some issues they needed to harmonise between the Ministry and the Statement that we had done. I, therefore, take it upon myself to also take the information to her, with regard to the question by the Hon. Member, as a seasoned Member for that Committee. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to speak on this Motion on what we popularly call the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. Earlier on, we passed the formula, but I would like to say something extra about the formula that 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
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: we are using. To some extent, that particular formula still favours the larger counties at the expense of the counties that are highly populated, but are small in area size. I come from a county that is small, but the population is very high. So, possibly, in future, we shall have to relook at that formula with the aim of ensuring that the people get the funds and not the area size or just the poverty index. Also, we need a proper evaluation of the poverty index throughout the country to ensure that the records that we use are correct, ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: training in the lowest level. When you look at the CBC education system, we are now going the direction of TVET and vocational training. So, this is an area which I wish county governments will still make sure that we do not kill the village polytechnics which are very important to ourselves, leave alone the ECDE which has been spoken about. Let us get a mechanism of how the county governments can give a report and how they use it. There are a number of institutions in this country, including county governments, which do not want to declare their tax ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for being kind. I lost my opportunity and will be very brief. From the perspective of workers, we know every job must have a job description which leads to creation of titles, job levels and ranking in form of job evaluation. Hon. Speaker, you have just said that you find yourself in trouble a lot of time with the SRC. You have just spoken on issues that concern Members of Parliament. It is because there is no job description. So, this is a law that is trying to bring a level and job description for Members ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to also pass my condolences as Omboko Milemba and the people of Emuhaya. We are his neighbours and I call him uncle because my mother came from where his home is. We had a chance of visiting him and I agree with Hon. Wamalwa. He told me to sit in Parliament. He told me not to be walking out and bouncing. He told me that that is the most important thing when you are in Parliament. We wanted to cross over from ODM to ANC during that time. I went with my ... view