Hon Jeremiah Omboko Milemba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 3721 to 3730 of 3817.

• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I was ahead of T.J. in your original list, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Looking at the Finance Bill, like one of the Members said, it was a desperate measure to raise funds through taxes. The rider should be that these taxes must not be raised in a way that will completely kill the mwanachi or the peasant. The biggest role of Parliament is to protect the weak local mwananchi. I convince and appeal to my fellow Members of Parliament that as we contribute on this, this is our core business. Being our core business, we should protect the worker, the proletariat and the mwananchi who is being ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I will be patient. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I will do with the two minutes, but this is how we make bad laws. The 1.5 per cent being deducted is not taking into account the fact that we are giving this money to build houses. We have very many poor people in our villages in Emuhaya, Siaya and countrywide, who also need houses. A law has not been made on how to address this particular housing scheme that will affect our people. Already, the amendment in this clause is discriminatory because it is not dealing with housing for all Kenyans. It is ... view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not want to contribute through the back door. My card is in and functioning. I want to support the views raised by the preceding Member. To the Mover of the Motion, the friends of committees are sometimes important people in terms of giving knowledge about that specific thing the committee is discussing. These friends may not be Members of that Committee. Whereas these amendments have been brought to create order in the House and the committees, I think you being a ranking Member should also understand that the results of the debates in Parliament ... view
• 23 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I beg to second that amendment. We need consultation between the Leader of the Majority Party and the Leader of the Minority Party. As I second, I must say we are not interested in challenging the authority of the Leader of the Majority Party or of the Leader of the Minority Party. These are our rules. For us to operate well, it is important that the majority consults with the minority moving forward. These are House rules. Thank you. I beg to second. view
• 22 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: No, no. I am very okay. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity. At the outset, I support the Petition that teachers in Taita Taveta be considered for hardship allowance. This should extend to teachers in other areas like Suba and Budalangi, among other areas. Whereas this Petition is directed at the education committee, I think it should go to a joint committee of the education committee and the committee that deals with boundaries. Boundaries of where it is hardship and where it is not hardship should be drawn so that we know once and for all the areas ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the outset, I rise to support the Petition and ask the Committee that shall be looking into it to realise that this is a matter which has been tried at several levels. At one time, the unions tried to work on it. We petitioned the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) and other Government agencies. All those agencies told us that the real organ that could pursue the issue of boundaries of areas to be considered for hardship allowance in this country and to lead to their gazettement is Parliament. So, this matter now rests ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The challenge we have is that the gazettement of the hardship areas was done a long time ago and those boundaries are still being used to date. However, the geographical arrangement of those boundaries has since changed. So, there are very many areas that need to be included on the list of hardship areas. I will not specifically talk about my constituency, but I will borrow a leaf from the Members who have looked at this matter as a national issue that needs to be addressed nationally by the Committee. There are areas that have been gazetted as hardship areas, ... view
• 15 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Without much ado, now that the Petition is going to the Committee, I add my voice that this is a national issue and it is vested with Parliament. Let the Committee concerned do its best to resolve it once and for all. Thank you. view