John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to contribute to this amendment Bill. I, obviously, support what has been agreed upon earlier. The amendment simplifies provisions in the earlier Act. I have no specific difficulty with the amendment as proposed. I think it is an opportune moment to comment on our overall approach. You have heard us, in this House, singularly talk about drought. We have disasters. Probably, we should take them in the same vein. I address this as if it is going to cover both droughts and other disasters. Drought-prone areas become flood-prone areas when they get ... view
• 6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: continue to pass budgets only for people to become millionaires each time there is such an occurrence. You do not need rocket science to know why that happens. We have this opportunity to introduce this fund that has been amended, to accept gifts and donations. As a nation, I sometimes worry why we are putting out a basket for gifts and donations instead of saying that, these are critical expenditures and we need to forego other critical expenditures that we had planned for that are not of an emergency nature, and allocate their money to this emergency fund. That will ... view
• 6 Aug 2019 in National Assembly: continue to pass budgets only for people to become millionaires each time there is such an occurrence. You do not need rocket science to know why that happens. We have this opportunity to introduce this fund that has been amended, to accept gifts and donations. As a nation, I sometimes worry why we are putting out a basket for gifts and donations instead of saying that, these are critical expenditures and we need to forego other critical expenditures that we had planned for that are not of an emergency nature, and allocate their money to this emergency fund. That will ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I think it will be useful if the Mover could indicate the import of the change. It is now before the House. We are going to discuss this. I think it is really important that the import of the change is explained. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there is substitution. We have deleted something that was agreed and we have added something that is now, I think, more in line with the intent of the Mover on this. I am saying I think it will be useful for the House if the Mover could now explain that deletion and substitution. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill and have few remarks to make. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I have been listening to the discussion from the beginning this morning and wondering what the major thrust for the Bill and the debate was. That has helped me to form my remarks. This would have applied ideally to public institutions and left the private sector to their wits end to start with. As I thought more about that, I realised there is no much difference since even private institutions have such expectations. For instance, compliance with the tax laws, environmental laws, the no loss no harm policy to the citizens and so on. So, there are many dimensions that ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Indeed, people can form companies without formal education. It does not mean they are uninformed or uneducated. Generally, it will be really perverse if the completely illiterate had better knowledge of running companies than the educated. That would mean the value of incremental education is worth nothing. So, there is usually a level at which certain minimum knowledge is required. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: I support this Bill by saying that in whatever roles they play, in public or private institutions, there is an inherent obligation in what they do in so far as for example, they have to meet the national obligations on taxation and clearly understand the tax laws. I know that these are embedded in the Companies Act. I do not know whether Members of this House have seen the latest version of the Companies Act. It is about six inches high. So, if you assume that people understand that, then you will be in that category which believes that ignorance ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: We talk about issues of graft. We have been focusing a lot on what comes out of the national Government than what comes out of counties. We have a lot of parastatals out there doing their own things that nobody ever knows and they never rise to the surface. They make lots of money, sit on lots of assets which are daily being snatched and grabbed. You saw how much we lost but we have now forgotten when we moved over from local authorities to county governments. If we had knowledge of people who understand the various public laws that ... view