Methu John Muhia

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: On the licencing procedure, Sen. Mariam Omar has proposed that in three years, all licencing authorities should allow electronic application. This is a major departure from the past. Sen. M. Kajwang’ is my Chairperson in the Committee on Public Accounts The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard Services,Senate. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: of the Senate. It has been mentioned by many governors that for them to succeed in raising their revenues and seal all the loopholes in the revenue streams, electronic application is the way to go. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: A person in a small village in Marsabit County should be able to apply for a licence and get it without necessarily visiting the sub county office, knowing Sen. Chute or the governor for Marsabit county. If a person in a village in Marsabit County wants to open a kinyozi or salon, they do not need to travel all the way to the sub county headquarters to apply for a licence. It should be made easy to apply. The Licensing Authority could even visit your village and issue you with the licence so that you are able to do your ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, another matter that has caught my eye is Clause 13 of this Bill that says- “The period upon which an application for a licence must be considered must be 28 days.” view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I imagine a person that is applying for a licence is a person who is either in business or wants to open one. If you are Government and you are not efficient and do not want to process their licence in good time, then you are not creating an enabling environment for that businessperson. Therefore, 28 days is good enough. If it were me, I would even reduce it. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: It has also been proposed in the Bill that the notice of decision to either grant or refuse to grant you a license must be given to you within seven days. This is something that has been abused for a long time. Your application is not approved, they sleep on the papers, you do not know whether it has been approved or not and you cannot appeal. You just sit not knowing what has happened. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I was expecting that Sen. M. Kajwang’ would speak about it because he speaks about it every time we sit in the Committee on Public Accounts. We were told and heard when we were looking at the books of a certain county government that I would not want to mention here, that some officials of the Licencing Authorities produce their own licences, take them to the business people and do not have any feature that would distinguish them from the real licences. This then leads to loss of public funds. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I feel like this has been cured by the proposal in the Bill by Sen. Mariam Omar in Article 16- “A licence issued under this section shall include a unique identifier.” view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Original licences from the Licencing Authority are able to be distinguished from fake licences from rogue licencing officers who collude with business people. You produce your own licence, go talk to the business people, get the money and the money never makes it to the own source basket. This is a major loss for the counties. This is because the win for the counties is to expand their own source revenue so that they can move ahead. It will include the name of the licencing authority and the licensee so that it is not transferrable. If Sen. Madzayo has applied ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, finally, with regard to the cancellation of licences, I am praying that this shall not become an avenue for appointing authorities to punish people who disagree with them. I find that the Clause has left so much room for the Licencing Authority. At the whim of the Licensing Authority, your license could be cancelled. I do not know how we will tighten that part, so that we protect people applying for licenses. view