Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Those who have traveled to cities like Sydney have found young men sitting on the streets throughout the night because of availability of hotspots. What stops the Kenyan Government or the Nairobi Metropolitan Services (NMS) from creating hotspots in Nairobi City, where Kenyans can sit and use the internet to innovate? view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: A good friend of mine called Mr. Sam Gichuru started iHub somewhere along Ngong Road and the President even visited him. This was a platform where young people were innovating because he offered them high speed internet and gadgets. By the way, many young people using the iHub platform, have become billionaires. Once they developed a concept, they have sold it to international companies. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: However, the Kenyan Government makes it impossible to register a company. They make it impossible for a young person who has just left university to get a certificate. It is also impossible to prequalify young people because you insist they must have a bank account. How do you have a bank account if you are a university student? The same university student is the same person waiting to pay the Higher Education Loans Board (HELB) loan. If you do not pay HELB loan because you do not have a job, you pay a penalty. That is what the Government is ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Are we not surprised that they are now becoming hustlers? They have nothing else to do. Hustling is getting a job here and there or getting a tender and making quick bucks. Some of them end up in jail. When Sen. Cherargei was the Chairperson of the Committee on Justice, Human Rights and Legal Affairs, we visited a Government of Kenya Remand Prison facility. The sight of those young people in there would drive you to tears. What are they doing in remand? Somebody was trying to make money using a connection here and there, because that is what people ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: If Sen. Haji doubts us, a hustle is trying to walk in and make a quick buck here and there. In the end, they end up either violating the law and get arrested. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. That is why Sen. (Dr.) Langat should listen to me very carefully about what the young people call a hustle as opposed to a hustler he is referring. These young people have been exploited by we, the politicians, in an attempt to make them look as if they are either doing something wrong or as if we have an alternative. I am simply saying that the companies mentioned in this Bill by Sen. Sakaja, for example, Cellulant has developed a digital payment platform. Sendy has developed a logistics platform. Twiga Foods deals in quality feed for ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: I thank Sen. Sakaja who has just walked in for this Bill. It gives incentives and tax holidays. You want to bring the Chinese here through your Government, so that they give you the 10 per cent as opposed to giving incentives to young people. There is a cadre of people in Kenya who are lobbyists, cartels and mafia whose work is to look for contractors and be offered 10 per cent. When young people want to do certain things view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: contained in this Bill, we cannot give them a tax holiday or break, exempt them from regulations or offer them the 30 per cent that is in procurement. We cannot do agriculture the same way we have been doing since Independence. The solutions are in being a little more innovative. I can tell the Senator for Meru County that a time will come that you will not have to speed with miraa all the way from Meru. It will not work in another five or less years. The people who sell miraa in Meru County must become a little more ... view
• 27 Jul 2021 in Senate: Sen. Linturi, I am talking about the Government where you belong. You are a member of the Government that I am referring to. That is why I am addressing you. If I was addressing somebody else, I would look at them. However, I am addressing you as a person who is in Government and a person who intends and portends to form Government. You have been going around saying that you want to form Government and that is why I am addressing you. When I talk about Government, I am referring to now and your intentions which could be real ... view