Mwangi Kiunjuri

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, since we have two Ministerial Statements to be issued next Wednesday, I would wish that we issue this Ministerial Statement on Thursday afternoon, next week. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mr. Githae should know that I am the "presiding Leader of Government Business". view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Motion. I have very brief comments to make. One of them is that we are in the process of coming up with a new Constitution for this country. The new Constitution that we want to put in place, will cater for devolution in this country. The Local Government outfits in the country will be recognised as governments on their own in the new Constitution. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: We, as Members of Parliament, are also paid from the Consolidated Fund. We draw our money from State coffers. It is very unfortunate that we do the same work that councillors do. Councillors and mayors are representatives of the people. They are elected through the ballot on the same day Members of Parliament and the President are elected. Therefore, there is no reason whatsoever for us to discriminate against councillors by not paying them from the Consolidated Fund. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, Members of Parliament should also take this challenge, noting that they usually delegate a lot of work to councillors. We should also bear in mind the fact that councillors are always in their respective wards. They do not have any choice of being outside their wards. Every morning, they face the electorate. We, Members of Parliament, are sometimes lucky, as we stay in Nairobi for three days in a week, attending to Parliamentary Business. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: If we, hon. Members, can still argue that the salary we receive is not enough, because we use it to serve the electorate out there, councillors can adverse a similar argument. It would, therefore, be very unfortunate if any hon. Member of this House can stand here to oppose this Motion. I support this Motion. We should also have a ceiling on how much they should earn. The ceiling must be commensurate to their work. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, local authorities in this country are known not to raise enough funds, view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: 4464 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES January, 28, 2009 view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: through what they collect from taxpayers. Asking local authorities to go ahead and collect more taxes from the common man, so that they can pay councillors' allowances, would mean opening another taxation line, which would be oppressive to our people. view
• 28 Jan 2009 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, could you protect me from Messrs. Linturi and Ethuro? view