11 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, out of that information, the KRA is known to issue demands to individuals and businesses. If you go to tax tribunals to dispute the demands that are sometimes made by the KRA officials, you come out worse off. Today, Keroche Breweries Limited has suffered a Kshs9.1 billion tax blow. I sometimes wonder whether some of the institutions that we have put in place are facilitating business or whether in their thirst to achieve targets they are frustrating businesses.
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11 Mar 2020 in Senate:
The Assets Recovery Agency is doing a job that is fairly commendable. The Judiciary has pronounced itself because it was at one time cited as an obstacle to assets recovery effort. The Court of Appeal cleared some of the issues that were murky in an earlier ruling when the EACC went to court seeking to recover assets from certain individuals. I support this Bill and the principle behind it. However, I believe that it can still benefit from additional input from different stakeholders. I do not know whether public participation has been done on this Bill. I believe that this ...
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10 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this Bill. It is not very nice for me to speak after Sen. Wetangula, more so when he had so many good points to raise. Time is running out and I just want to lay out a few issues in support of this Bill. As a parent, if your child came back home from school with a Rolex, a phone, or some other expensive gadget, it is your duty to demand an explanation of where that asset came from. If your teenage daughter came back home driving a car and owning ...
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10 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Uganda. Eriya Kategaya’s children were my friends, and they lived simple lives. They lived in public houses and everyone laughed at them; how their father could be number two in the Republic and yet live a simple life. He died having lived a very simple life. We must also deal with these values that we have in society, that once you in Parliament, you become a tree that gives rise to cash, or you become a cash dispenser that everyone can draw cash from. Two, is on the sophistication of corruption. This Bill will help us deal with those who ...
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10 Mar 2020 in Senate:
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5 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I join you and Sen. Wetangula in welcoming the young students from Moi Girls Kamusinga in Bungoma. That revelation that Sen. Wetangula was your teacher and you were his student explains a lot. At times, a teacher is proud when the student does much more than the teacher ever did. You sitting on that Chair and directing Sen. Wetangula must make him proud because, after all, you are his student. It has also been said that students can get out of hand; I do not think that you have gotten to that level. To the ...
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5 Mar 2020 in Senate:
In Kenya, we have the land question and we still do not have the right answer to it. At the last elections people told us that when it comes to the land question, they have got the solution. Unfortunately, the solutions that we legislated on and captured in our Constitution and in various policies were solutions that were aimed at making happy people who were in the ruling class and are contributing to the land issues in this Republic. If you look at our policy and approach towards land, ask yourself why Kenya was unable to put a pipeline through ...
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5 Mar 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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5 Mar 2020 in Senate:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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