Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I am sticking to the rules. You need to make a ruling on withdrawal of amendments because it is very dangerous. Even if the Chair feels that we are going to react in some manner, let him prosecute his amendment. We know what to do. Otherwise, he is presuming what we are going to do. That is presuming what the plenary will do. There is a problem of precedent. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, there is a precedent which we have in the House that when you are a Chair, you are unable, without a written consent of your Members, to withdraw an amendment because the Bill has gone through public participation. A chair of a committee is here on behalf of his committee. If we allow chairs of committees to withdraw amendments here, it is going to be very dangerous and we Members of committees, have no way of making sure that our suggestions in the committee reach the House. So, the Chair should not feel intimidated. We know ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, on this, I support the Chair. This demonstrates one thing, namely, what the Chairman said. If you are listening, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, this is now a clear testimony that the Chairman, with a lot of respect to the Leader of the Majority Party, was right. There is confusion here. The same Government or person who was bringing us the Bill wants to reduce taxation. I have never seen any Government reduce taxation from 35 per cent to 15 per cent. It can only mean that even the people who are considering the penal regime did ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: I am pleading. Do not get tired of me. That is why I take all my time to come here so that we can help each other on legislation. Yes, you have proposed the Question, but my point of order was going to precede that proposal. I was going to ask that we should have first dispensed with the amendment by Hon. Wanga. Why? Hon. Wanga is trying to delete the entire section and the Chairman is only concerned with part (a) of it. If Hon. Wanga’s amendments were to be carried, there would be no need to prosecute what ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. Where is this Chair? I heard the Chair talking about some regulatory frameworks which have arisen and yet the section we are dealing with is a substantive one. We are on definition. He was not very clear to give us the correct picture with which we are able to debate this. Can he expand so that we can know what we are talking about? We are on definitions. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, my understanding is that the Member for Suba North is very right as always because she is my Member of Parliament. I have understood her to say that first of all, she is dealing with the amendment brought by the Leader of the Majority Party before she deals with hers. She has 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
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: My name was mentioned and I want to put it in good light, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. The problem we have with this Committee and the previous one is that we have read their Reports and they are completely different from what you are telling us on the Floor of the House. They have substantive issues which they are presenting to us. Then they come before us and tell us that there are regulations or statute laws that they will come up with in future. That is not even bad. What is worse is that they do not disclose the ... view
• 2 May 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the Mover in bringing down what would have been 1 per centum to 0.2 per centum. But, how I wished it would have gone down further because in part (ii) of the new amendment, the dairy farmers will still be subjected to county government levies which as per the Constitution will arise. So, what will happen is that the 0.2 per centum will combine with another percentage by the county governments and that will still burden the local producers or dairy farmers. I wish we could have even come lower which we can still ... view