Martin Peters Owino

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, we challenge the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning, to get together and look at all the loopholes in tax brackets. This piecemeal presentation of Bills will not fix tax issues. Let us also look at the budget because we are a budgeting House. The best ways to reduce taxes is to budget right and have a realistic budget so that we cannot overtax people. Now, we are trying to chase the budget we did because it has a shortfall. That is what this Bill is trying to do. The Kshs30 billion we are targeting ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know the Bill is restrictive to adoptions. However, you have to work before you apply for any maternity leave. That is why we are trying to explore the environment that can bring work so that these people can also be considered to have leave. On that path, I think Members will agree and allow us to explore other areas in order to get there. I think it is important that we expand our scope. Not many who are adopting are employed. In my constituency, the unemployed mothers or parents are overwhelming. So, I ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I am very grateful, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to say something about this amendment Bill. I support it fully. It is, indeed, true that when two bulls fight, it is the grass that suffers. I represent a very poor community that depends on small businesses. Their business is always supported by those who work in the counties. When the money was not trickling down to them, their business came to a halt. The effect of the delay of disbursement of monies to the counties is far reaching. Just to mention a few, kids delayed going ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I suggest that we put a caveat to this. The Leader of the Minority Party got it right. Human beings are human beings. This provision eventually might be abused. We have to look into that carefully and see other safety nets that we should put in place to ensure that we give 15 per cent. That is genius to put something to safeguard that. Other than that, this is in order. We want our counties to grow. That is where revenue is needed most especially poor rural communities like I represent in Ndhiwa. If the money is not trickling to ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support and thank the Budget and Appropriations Committee for this amendment Bill. 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
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. I thank the Committee for doing a good job. In my constituency, Ndhiwa, what sustains women’s income, especially household income, is the Uwezo Fund, Women Enterprise Fund and the Youth Enterprise Development Fund. I think it was not by coincidence that these people wanted to bypass the legislation. Also, it is not a coincidence that they did not do public participation. It was by design. So, we have to annul it. What we need to do with regard to this Fund is capacity development for the workers and ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really appreciate this time so that I can add my voice to this Bill. First of all, I want to thank the Chair for a lot of work which he has put into this Bill. This is a timely Bill. However, with due respect to the Chair, we have to do things rightly. For the past 20 years, electoral process has brought a lot of pain to the society in this country. In the last election, I lost a lot of people through brutal death in my constituency. Some people became ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The Bill is timely. In the previous one, we put a lot of religious leaders to be in charge. When an election is bashed, it is politicians who are mostly affected because they represent people. When they are affected, they come to us for various reasons. So, we are the stakeholders in this Bill. I am happy with one point that the Parliamentary Service Commission is involved because this is an umbrella for all of us. If you go further, civil servants have conflicts. If they are involved in selection and then later on, things go wrong and they are ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: The reason we are posing this to the Chair is that the Bill needs substantive negotiations and deliberations. Let me put it this way: You cannot squeeze lemon and expect to get orange juice. From the word go, if we do not get it right, for example, if we do the nomination in the wrong way, we will end up with the selection in the wrong way. We will appoint the wrong people and the election will be botched. That will affect the Judiciary. It will affect the Legislature because of representation and governance, which is the Executive. Therefore, we ... view
• 31 Jul 2019 in National Assembly: have a problem. As I was going through the Bill, I saw that many countries have tried. Those who come from an authoritarian regime cannot accept any public servant to be in that body because they were oppressing them. So, they use the multiparty broad-based selection which is a different kind of area. For example, if you go to Romania, legislators appoint the chair of the electoral commission because they know what it is if elections go wrong. In Australia, the chair of the electoral commission is the executive officer because sometimes it needs a hands-on operation. For example, in ... view