Kathuri Murungi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: I know you have a lot of--- view
• 19 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to support this amendment. It is a well thought out amendment. It is actually one of the best amendments. view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to also give my input to this Bill. First, I want to thank my colleague and friend, Hon. Jude Njomo for his effort. Kenyans have experienced a lot of problems with the banking sector and with this amendment we will see the light of day. We now have an opportunity to regulate banks. Commercial banks, of late, charge customers very high interest rates. This Bill which seeks to curb ceilings on lending is the best present ever for people in business. If today you borrow some money from a commercial bank to ... view
• 13 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: One thing I am also not comfortable with is the fine of only Kshs1 million that banks that will not comply with this requirement will be expected to pay. The Kshs1 million is peanuts to a bank which is fleecing many customers. At the Committee of the whole House, we should increase the fine from Kshs1 million to maybe what my friend, Hon. Ottichilo proposed, about Kshs10 million. It can be even Kshs50 million. The penalty should be punitive, so that banks can comply. The Governor of the Central Bank has a lot of powers to rein in these banks. ... view
• 12 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to support the Petitioner by noting that Kakamega Forest is one of the tropical rain forests that we have in the western Kenya region. It has very unique biodiversity comprising of both plants and animals. The Petitioner forgot to mention the famous “Mama Mutere” tree, whose home is Kakamega Forest. Besides Kakamega Forest, the Kenya Forest Service should look around the country to make sure that all the forests are protected. We are now struggling to attain 10 per cent of tree cover. As we look into this Petition, as a Member of the ... view
• 12 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: not the Chairperson of the Committee, I promise that we will visit Kakamega Forest in the interest of this Petition. We implore KFS to do reforestation to restore the already damaged sections of that forest, as we try to attain the 10 per cent forest cover. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I support this Motion. Almost 70 per cent of our population is composed of the youth. Currently, there are many youth leaving secondary school and joining us out there. For them to be recognised by the Government as citizens of this country they must get national IDs. The possession of a national ID is very critical because there is absolutely no transaction that you can carry out in this country without a valid national ID. This includes Mpesa transactions which have become revolutionary and have international recognition. Young people cannot join that revolutionary business. view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Besides focusing only on voting, because we look very selfish as politicians when we want the youth to be given this document so that they can vote, we can amend the relevant Acts to enable waiting cards to be used for other transactions as well. It should not look like we are only protecting votes. People say Members of Parliament are always self-centred. An amendment can be made such that other transactions can be allowed using serialised waiting cards. That can be the best move. As I support, I know Kenya has many challenges now including security challenges. Opening registration ... view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: We are in a catch-22 situation because of our security concerns. Even if these people will use these documents to register as voters, there should be a timeframe within which they should be issued with real identity cards, which they can use to vote. I can see that Hon. Members are passionate about this law. It is like the Members of this House know exactly how many papers are out there. The passion that Hon. Members have on this issue is raising eye brows. Once we are done with the passage of this “Bill”, the person who is supposed to ... view
• 30 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: The other challenge we have is that the identity cards of the same people we are saying should be given serialized waiting cards to vote could be lying at their sub-county registration offices. I fail to understand. Whereas we are crying for identity cards, there are thousands of uncollected identity cards at the sub-county registration offices. I do not understand what is happening. The issue of voter registration has nothing to do with issuance of identity cards. There are other underlying factors which should be looked at keenly. view