Tom Joseph Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 831 to 840 of 10308.

• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: (Ruaraka, ODM) view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: We are still vigilant. We are still awake. What the Leader of the Majority Party wants to do is in the deal itself on Page 802 of the Bill. It is this Clause 65 which will allow the KRA to take money from people. The amendment relates to the First Schedule of the Kenya Revenue Act, which allows KRA to take money as provided by the Public Finance Management Act. If you bring the Employment Act here, it will be the enabling vehicle through which KRA will take money from people allegedly for this housing thing. It is the housing ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, the proposed amendment by Hon. Jude Njomo has just been circulated to us. So, many of us have not looked at it properly. The amendment is okay because we have to be serious about the next of kin so that every bank lists them. But a fine of Kshs1 million is unreasonable. We will bring banks down. If in every account there is a default, a bank will be required to pay Kshs1 million for it, a bank may pay Kshs10 million just because some clerk refused to put in some things. I plead with the ... view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Oooh! view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I will do it in a shorter time so that I can save time for my colleague. He should know there are ranking Members. He should know people in this Assembly. view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I am so pleased that you have allowed me to speak to this subject. Today, I thought I would have spoken earlier. I do not regret speaking at this hour because I have benefitted a lot from professionals. This is the first time I have learnt that I can also be an unlearned friend. Listening to great people like Oundo, who is the Member for the great people of Funyula, you get the impression that you are in an economics class. I have learnt a lot of concepts that I last dealt with when I was a sixth former. The ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The reason I have been holding onto my seat is to speak to my people. As you know, in Article 94, we deal with issues that concern our people. In Clause 31(b)(iii), the National Treasury intended to levy excise tax of Kshs20 per kilo on confectioneries and all sugars for chocolate and blocks that go into making those confectioneries. I am sure you know so much about chocolates like I because I use them a lot. What they do not know is that where all these… view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I do them. I use a lot of chocolates. Members of the National Assembly do not know where all these things are manufactured. These things are manufactured in Ruaraka Constituency. The great people of Ruaraka Constituency make these things. It is the reason people in estates that surround those places like Kariadudu and Kasabuni survive on employment by those factories. To raise Excise Duty to Kshs20 per kilo would have literally meant job cuts for all my people. Nearly everybody in the constituency I lead is unemployed. Then, you want to send the few that are employed to utter oblivion. ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Employment Act. It is targeting employees under the Employment Act. First of all, who are employees and who are employers? If it is employers under the Employment Act, how about thousands of people who are in the informal sector? How are we going to rake them into this business? Two, working on a quick calculation, these guys are going to rake in Kshs1 billion a month. This is Kshs1 billion per month, which is going to be put in a Fund. If it is that important, Hon. Atandi, it should come in a stand-alone legislation in which we will appreciate ... view
• 28 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: The way we have done this is the same way we did on the Statute Law Miscellaneous (Amendments) Bill. You use a Finance Bill and slip in very important things and push them there yet what you do is just to create that money and it is drawn for corruption. Nothing in Clause 68 says that this money will be used to house my people in Mathare. Nothing says so. The KRA is going to pick that Kshs1 billion and finance other things. If it was in a stand-alone legislation, that money would not go anywhere else except to build ... view