Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: First of all, the Leader of the Majority Party cannot approbate and reprobate. He allowed us to debate Section 87A. The same reasoning should apply to Section 87B. The Leader of the Majority Party made me very humble. He said that we are not working for the National Treasury. We have to work here as legislators. For that, I was very humbled that we were thinking as Members of the National Assembly and not the Treasury. So, we should free my friend, Hon. Moses Kuria, from the 114 business. I plead with him to just do a few other amendments ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: First, I have a problem with the interest. When you say that interest will accrue interest, at what rate and for how long? You are going to create a Pandora’s box. Even if you say market rates, what is that? Is it the lending rates? Which rate is prevailing? What has been controlling the market has been the lending rate. Even up to now, if there is a pending payment, there is obviously interest accruing at court rates, which are controlled by the Civil Procedure Act, the Adjudicature Act and so on. So, if you drop that one, I will ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I rise to oppose this with a lot of respect to the Member for Gatanga. This is over-prescriptive. There are so many things that we do not need to put in law. There are administrative actions that can be taken. If the Attorney-General has been delaying, we can have administrative systems that will make him hasten what he has been doing. However, the big problem here is that the Attorney- General often will do what is called due diligence. When you have a contract of Kshs5 billion or that kind of thing, the Attorney-General must send ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Ruaraka is synonymous with Kajwang’. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I invite my friend, the Member for Gatanga, to think through this. We should not over-legislate. We should allow the principle of free economy to work on its own. These are contractual terms. If you are doing roads construction, there are the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) contractual terms that engineers, lawyers and contractors in that sector all know. It is not in the law. Going to the procurement of other goods and services, you do not have to prescribe everything because those things are in the contract themselves. You ... view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: I oppose. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the Chair of the Committee should express himself more on this so that it is clearer. view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: I have a problem with how he has worded his amendment. He says that, “performance security may not generate interest”. view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: Let the Chair of the Committee pay attention so that I make my point. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: The wording in the amendment is that it may not generate interest. That is the problem. I wish you should not have used the word, “generate”. You should have said “attract interest or earn interest”. When you say “generate interest” you mean something else. view
• 8 May 2019 in National Assembly: If you mean that it should not earn interest, you should say “shall not”. When you say “may not” you are ambiguous. Would the Chair of the Committee want to recast his language so that he is very clear on what he wants to say? view