Hon Jeremiah Omboko Milemba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2961 to 2970 of 3417.

• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, this will be unfortunate because, as a Committee, we looked at this. I had a chance of reporting on behalf of the Chair and there are key amendments which will support the work environment. They should be put across through the Chair or possibly through the Leader of the Majority Party. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 11 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The fact that we want to drop the amendments simply because the Chair is not here will be bad for the workers and Parliament will not be doing its work. I wish you give a direction that will favour the position the Committee took. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: I will be very brief, Hon. Chairman. This is actually another sad moment because the amendment brought to us is actually supposed to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 10 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: protect the large populace of Kenyans who act as guarantors. It is not limiting in any way the space for business. All it is doing is to ensure that the assets of the principal borrower are exhausted before a lender goes after the guarantor’s assets. Unfortunately, it has gone the way of Article 115 of the Constitution, which gives power to the President to possibly oversee Parliament whenever it has flaws and excesses. Unfortunately, those powers are now being used to actually make laws. As I conclude, like one speaker said, this is a gap that Parliament must take care ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. From the outset, I wish to support this Bill. I also want to report, on behalf of the Chair and the Members of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare that, indeed, we had a section to deal with the National Industrial Training Authority (NITA). In that section, we invited the stakeholders on 13th January 2020. We wrote to the stakeholders and some stakeholders appeared before us. Some of them gave us documents and others came in person. The Central Organisation Trade Unions (COTU) did a written memorandum to us. We also heard from Kipkenda ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: They all appreciated the importance of making the business atmosphere in Kenya good, so that it can attract more players from local businesspeople, foreign investors and even the Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs). Of concern to the Committee was NITA. There is a charge of Kshs50 per employee per month that is levied upon every businessperson who has employed workers in Kenya. The law seeks to amend that to make it easier for businesspeople, so that they can pay that levy annually. Therefore, if it is Kshs50 per month for every employee, then it means in a year, every employee ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The other area that we dealt with was about safety and occupation hazards of workers at their places of work. The amendment provides a by-law that those who are starting businesses should not pay in that particular category. Both players in the sector were also in agreement that if there is a new business coming into play and it has less than 100 employees, then it can be given a period of one year before they start paying for their workers. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: There was a reservation and we may bring it in the Third Reading. Where there are certain businesses that are high risk, those are the only ones we shall have an exception which will depend on the advice of the Cabinet Secretary because he has been given powers to categorise which businesses are high risk. Therefore, that is how we shall move with it. I do not think we had so much in this Bill. We want to support it as both the Committee and the players in the sector. With those few remarks, I beg to support. Thank you. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I was here in the morning session and as we discussed the business of the House, Members who mixed languages were reprimanded. This afternoon, a Member is doing the same and he is walking away with it and asserting that because he is in the House Business Committee, communication will come later. Is it in order? Could you, please, communicate? Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to talk on the BPS Report. As I support it, because it is well put, I have issues with several items. For instance, it has proposed that we be doing the BPS after three years. Although earlier speakers, who are economists and veterans of economics, have alluded to support this, I think in an economy like ours which is still ridden with a lot of corruption and valuation issues on how much money is going to a particular item, this will be dangerous. Within a period of three years, ... view