Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I oppose this amendment because IDF and IDL are normally charged at the point of entry in this country. The amendment is making it very expensive to import. For example, if you import a vehicle that is worth Kshs300,000, you will end up paying Duty Tax of about Kshs400,000 because of these small items we are increasing without considering its impact on common Kenyans. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I also support the deletion because it will discourage Kenyans who are able to turn hides and skins into wet blue for export. The prices of hides and skins will even reduce in this country. I support. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this debate and say, right from the beginning, I support the Finance Bill, 2019, with related amendments that the Committee Chair has proposed. I think it is the right way to raise money. They are targeting virtual trade in the country. You know Kenyans are more enlightened and they are embracing the IT sector, and the description of the market is changing. When we were pursuing Bachelor of Commerce in the earlier days, the description of a market was where people meet and negotiate an item. ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: The area that I want to talk to at length is where the Government wanted to introduce 10 per cent tax on wet blue hides and skins. We have some tanneries that turn hides and skins to a certain level. They are supposed to turn them into finished leather, so that they can be made into shoes. There are tanneries and other big businessmen who can turn them only to remove the first parts and get what we call wet blue which they can then export. When you put duty at 10 per cent, it will discourage exportation of skins ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want our agricultural and veterinary officers to ensure that the quality of our hides and skins match that of other countries. In the international market, we cannot compete with hides and skins from other countries. In Brazil, an animal is taken care of from early stages. It is given proper treatment and stored in a cool area as opposed to our animals on the ground where you find there is a lot of destruction of the hides as the animal grows. The animals are not well taken care of. There are those with tick bites, ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: When it comes to slaughtering – and that is where our veterinary officers should come in strongly - those animals are slaughtered in a very unhygienic way. The butchers add more knife marks thus reducing the quality of our hides and skins. The veterinary officers should come out very strongly in the slaughter houses and ensure that, that industry is well taken care of. Also, the quality of our animals is affected because they are not doing what they used to do such as using Artificial Insemination (AI). They allow animals to breed among themselves and the quality of our ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: So, with those few remarks, I want the Ministry, before they impose any duty, to research and know how that will affect our market and industries. Also, given that ours is an agricultural- based economy, we should ensure that it is well taken care of. I support. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this important debate. I support it. We should endeavor to ensure that at least we create employment for our children. When a kid finishes school and he is not engaged in employment, the kid gets frustrated. With frustrations, depression begins in that particular kid. If you want to improve the living conditions of Kenyans, you cannot do it without creating employment however simple it is. We should make sure that when our children complete their education they are engaged for a monthly pay, even if it ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As the Vice-Chair of the Departmental Committee on Energy has said, this is an issue that needs to be scrutinised. These kinds of petitions are investigative in nature. We want to move with diligence so that we come up with objective recommendations. I second the Motion. view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Interior and Coordination of National Government the following Question: view