John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 731 to 740 of 1058.

• 17 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I support in principal the amendment proposed by the Chair. My only concern is with responsibilities being given to the CS in charge of Finance. The CS, Health is responsible for all the policies in the health sector. To give the responsibility to the CS, Finance is to kill it because if the CS, Health does not cooperate it cannot be done. The responsibility should lie with the CS, Health to prescribe that minimum package. Giving it to the CS, Finance is sidelining it. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 16 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, it improves the reading and the meaning of the clause. I support the amendment. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and forgot my wallet at home with the card in it. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Yes, I left my wallet on the other side. This is an extremely important Bill that raises very important issues. However, I think it is not providing the correct solution to the problem. From the outset, I do not support the amendment in this form, but I will say positive things that I know the Bill has helped to raise. First, it is raising focus on the fact that there is difficulty in accessing credit. There are issues of affordability of credit. The growth sectors are going to be starved of the capital they need to grow. Therefore, our objective ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Fourthly, there are countries that have used this kind of a project extensively in the phase in which they were struggling to become relatively competitive. A country like India, for example, has significant controls that are targeted to the performance of the Rio sectors. These are sectors of the economy that produce goods and services. There are implications for these kinds of amendments. One of the implications is that when you tighten, and the Members have mentioned issues of shylocks, the space for banks in lending the shilling, they will lend in other currencies. It will begin to flow over ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: We should also look at the way commercial banks have behaved over the years. We have talked about the larger international banks cutting out the small savers and borrowers. In any economy, there are usually more savers than borrowers. So that even access to safe savings through institutions was not available to these banks. I want to mention without any fear of contradiction that it was the entry of the Equity Bank that pushed these banks back on the street and the villages that the Member was talking about, to reach out to the section that they thought The electronic ... view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: was unbanked. Grameen Bank has demonstrated they can make huge profits even by reaching these people. The lower savers that we think are going to be cut out may have even bigger problem of access to safe savings and affordable credit. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: In conclusion, let us remember that for as long as we have issues in our land markets, for example, where we cannot rely on the Land Registry and where many borrowers who can go to the bank had refused to pay their loans, we are raising transactions costs and making it difficult for banks to lower the interest rate that we are talking about. We have to deal with those attendant markets and collateral market that will help create confidence for these key institutions to service the industry. view
• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I reluctantly will not go along with this Bill because I feel there are issues which need to be sorted out. I hope the message is across to the Government and the banking sector that they should deal with the issues that are outstanding, so that we can reach the people. view
• 8 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you. The proposed amendment by Hon. (Prof.) Nyikal is one of the most fundamental things that have come before this House. The exploitation of natural resources, particularly in those two sub-sectors, is subject to tremendous abuse and opaqueness. It has brought down governments and led to excessive corruption. There are critical issues to be dealt with. In the best of circumstances, we should account for what is happening. Having that kind of thing not ratified by Parliament, which is the only institution that has a window for the people and allows public participation, is very dangerous. The amendment will ... view