Dr. John Kanyuithia Mutunga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Agriculture, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Centre for Drug Evaluation and Research, the Centre for Biological Evaluation and Research, the Centre for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, the Centre for Veterinary Medicine and the… view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill to be separated so that we have a Bill for drugs and a Bill for food and feeds. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 22 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I support the Bill to be separated so that we have a Bill for drugs and a Bill for food and feeds. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to add my voice to this issue of fuel price rises. I wish to thank Hon. Mule for bringing it to this House as a Petition and also for your guidance in response to the petitions brought to you by Kenyan citizens. A rise in fuel prices, including kerosene which has actually increased even more than all the others, is punitive to the Kenyans. It is not just costly but it will increase the costs of living across the board. It will increase the cost of transportation and the cost of travelling or ... view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, maybe you can give me a chance later. view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to contribute to this very important Motion. We all appreciate the benefits we have received from the digital transformation that the world has undergone. There is a lot that happens today, faster than it ever used to be and especially in the money world. The card other than cash business is key and has helped transactions to traverse the globe and this has lessened the transaction time. This is really an important Bill. It has come at the right time although I would like to say that it has come when ... view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The licensing and supervision of licensing is key for us to know who is operating in this field and how they are doing it. Are they doing it within the law or are they over exploiting people? view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The digital lending has been reported to overexploit people in the sense that every transaction is charged like the annual fee. Ten per cent per annum and this is sometimes per day. If you compute that, you will realise that somebody pays more than 2,400 per cent in a year assuming that they borrow six days in a week. This is huge because people lose a lot. I believe that when the Committee sits down to look at the Bill and come up with the law, they will look at possibilities of ensuring that there is taming of this excessive ... view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: The world as we all know has gone digital, and we cannot bury our heads in the sand without trying to catch up with the stage of development. We need to move with speed to move with the rest of the world. This law, therefore, comes in to empower the CBK to do what is required of them, namely, to legalise and sanitise the lending or transactions within the digital world. It will also curb exploitation of the borrowers. It will create transparency in the digital lending industry. Very many people are not aware of the extent to which they ... view
• 19 Aug 2021 in National Assembly: money is borrowed for short-term transactions and in the process, they may not realise the costs they normally incur. The other issue is information in terms of the implications that people may get into without realising. Digital borrowing does not seem to be seriously controlled. The repercussions are also not clear to the borrowers. Many people have found themselves listed with CRB without knowing they can land there. They get to realise much later and do not even know the implications of CRB issues, only to find themselves trying to borrow and are told that they are listed with the ... view