Najib Balala

All parliamentary appearances

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• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I hope that this Bill can address the sensitive issue like land transactions. Why should it be upon the buyer to do a due diligence as it was said by Ms Angote, the Permanent Secretary? She said it is upon the buyer to do a due diligence. We assume that there should be a thorough and transparent way of issuing of title deeds. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: My region is a big victim and so is the rest of the country. Kenyans are victims of these title deeds and conmen are there. We think that there are laws to protect the poor but the laws are protecting the conmen of this country. So, it is unfair if we allow people to exploit, particularly the poor. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am a traveler, for example. They call me a globetrotter, but I do it because I had something to sell for this country. So, I travelled all over the world. Since I commute between Mombasa and Nairobi, I use our national carrier. I am a patriot to the Kenya Airways. I was there a week ago and Business Class cost Kshs26,000 return. A week later it was Kshs29,000 return without notice or anything. You take it or leave it. I said that it is not a big deal to fly Business Class. We can ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, yesterday, I checked my electricity bill. My consumption of electricity in terms of value in Kenya Shillings was Kshs5,000. The total bill was Kshs14,000. All was added from surcharge, fuel cost, adjustment, adjustment--- There were three adjustments in that bill. That is full exploitation. Maybe I can afford, but what happens to Mama Mboga in Kariokor Market, who receives an electricity bill? Sixty per cent of her bill has costs which we do not know where they are going. That is exploitation. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, hon. Ethuro. It is not a matter of affordability here. It is a matter of being cheated and dishonesty and yet, the Kenya Power is a publicly owned company which we paid taxes to build. We are supposed to be considerate. I will give you an example. Let hon. Ethuro listen to me. Most of the underground railway lines in the United Kingdom (UK) are subsidized because they are supposed to support the consumer and the public at large. Today, we have liberalized everything. We are actually telling the private sector: “Come and take over the ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: I want to talk about the issue of measurements. Because I come from the hospitality industry, I enjoy my beef when I go to South Africa. It will be a T-born and a half and you need three people to share it. But when you go to our hotels here, a T-born is less than a quarter kilogramme, and half of it is a bone and it is heavy. You are told that that it is the French style being served to you; you are given so little that you wonder whether you paid for the amount that you deserve ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Finally, some of us are Muslims and are so sensitive to things like halal . You go to a place and they mix pork, beef and chicken and they do not even inform you whether this is halal or not. Halal to me is like life and death. It is like telling me to disown my faith if I eat port. So, could there be clear signs for the consumer to appreciate that this is view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: and this is not halal . The signs should show that a product has these ingredients, so that the consumer can appreciate it. If hon. Midiwo accepts, we must force people to have stickers of the Halal Bureau. Today, we have institutions that certify halal products. Those are the issues that we need to raise. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Recently, I saw Ford as a motor vehicle company in the United States withdrawing 20,000 vehicles from the market because they had a defect and they detected that defect. Show me one Ford vehicle that was withdrawn from the Kenyan market. The same thing happened with Toyota. About 37,000 vehicles were withdrawn from the international market. Show me one vehicle that was withdrawn from the market by Toyota in Kenya. There was none. This is because this is a place where the western world and the multinationals come and exploit us. It is becoming a dumping site. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Today, why can we not have an automobile assembly plant like Brazil, South Africa and other countries? Why do we have to import mitumba cars in the name of cheap cars? This is a dump site. We have accepted to be a dumping ground, and then we have environmental issues arising. view