Hon Jeremiah Omboko Milemba

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• 22 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: That we can equate the suffering we have with simple elections. Thank you. 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
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: I will speak on this proposed amendment. Can I proceed? view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I support the Omnibus Bill, I want to specifically speak on the amendment of the Employment Act. That concerns the amendment to remove the basic salary which is very important. It is the base upon which all calculations of other deductions of an employee are done. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: The basic salary is usually calculated after valuing the job. That is what we have currently in Kenya as job evaluation. We evaluate the job one will do and then we put a basic salary. If you follow the basic salary issue further, you will realise that it is very vital to protect it because it is usually fully taxable. If it is very high, you will certainly welcome a very high tax regime and vice versa. Removal of that will actually put workers in a situation where employers decide on the tax regime without a basis. It is also ... view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: I want to assert that if we remove that term in the labour movement and even for the Members of Parliament (MPs), then the basis upon which those statutory deductions will be done, will be swayed and can be changed anytime. In fact, the International Labour Organization (ILO) talks about this. It says that the basic salary is not easily changeable. You may not reduce it, but you may deal with all the other benefits above the basic salary which add to the gross salary. This may include overtime and other allowances. view
• 1 Dec 2020 in National Assembly: Therefore, Hon. Speaker, without much ado and because today is a very busy day, I wanted to weigh in that the basic salary needs to be protected. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance just before Hon. Makau closed this. I want to congratulate the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare for having brought Sessional Paper No.3 of 2019 which is touching on a very important issue of FGM. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Many people have spoken on this and many expositions done in terms of knowledge and statistics. I want to speak on it in order to give hope that this is something that can end. This comes from a historical perspective where there were very many cultural practices and other forms of practices practiced by Africans. But along the way they have either been shown the door through Christianity, civilisation and modernisation. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: I have in mind many cultural practices that were done in Kenya like removal of teeth among the Luo which has been mentioned here. Another cultural practice is human sacrifice among some of our tribes that was eradicated. There was killing of twins as part of cultural practices of Africans, Kenyans were also involved and this has been done away with. There are many others including cults and believe in traditional medicine at the expense of people dying. Today, this has been mitigated using laws and is dying. view
• 10 Nov 2020 in National Assembly: Therefore, I want to speak to the communities that are practicing this like the Samburu, Maasai and the Somali. This is a cultural practice that can end. It will involve leadership and education in those areas so as to defeat FGM because it is not a good cultural practice. More so, looking closely there was FGM among the Agikuyu community. I do not speak for them but I know they had it. For those who read the old books like the River Between, you would see this practice being flagged very loudly. But now when you speak to the Agikuyu ... view