Hon. Richard Nyagaka Tongi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: I agree with Hon. Dennitah Ghati and we are lucky that she has had opportunity of living in both worlds. She was like all of us, but by bad luck, she is where she is now. She is able to appreciate both realities and knows the challenges. I am glad she has not forgotten the people going through that kind of experience. When she brings this kind of a Statement, it is a testament that she means well and knows how difficult it is. We want to take advantage of what is going in the country because the Government is ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: inconvenience enough and we do not want to load a lot more to families or individuals who already are discriminated by the society and families they come from. Sometimes when we do not have well informed parents, children with disabilities go through hell. Some of them have proven their case and done extremely well to make contribution to the society and some of them serve at a very high level. If we appreciate where they are coming from, then we need to support many of them because that means that more will have a chance to excel if we create ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: The Salvation Army, one of the religious communities in Kenya, has done extremely well. I have a case in mind where they have started an institution in Kisumu called Joyland, which takes care of very many needy cases. I have had opportunity to go to that school. If the Government went out of its way and supported that school to expand and even create an enabling environment where children will freely move, get a special diet and scrap school fees - because they are required to pay some school fees even when the Government is paying a bit of it ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: I support the Statement. view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this agreement. I support it because I believe it is the way to go. The world is becoming a global village. All of us must be prepared to partake and have a share of it. The way to do it is by reducing the amount of time people spend on travel and, more so, the time spend on transit. The agreement between Kenya and Jordan, Kenya and Jamaica, Kenya and Bahamas, and Kenya and Turkey will ensure provision of faster air transport services that will no doubt ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I encourage this. We need to embrace it. We need to look at some countries with bigger populations to open up opportunities for air services so that our people will have a chance to The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: travel and benchmark on what is going on in the world. Nowadays, what works elsewhere can be copy-pasted and work in Kenya. We do not need to re-invent the wheel by starting new projects or starting fresh ones. We need to copy what China and a few other countries have done. They simply copy-paste what is working elsewhere, localise it and made it work for them. We, as a country, have technology and manpower. We have sons and daughters who have gone to school well and have the capacity to do some of those things without having to start from ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: As I wind up, I saw a very interesting article yesterday. The youth were saying that instead of the Government creating employment for the old people; people who have worked for more than 10 years, and have the experience and the money to open up businesses, it should consider the young people. So, the story of telling the youth to start businesses when they have no money and experience to manage anything needs to be re-thought through. The proposal was that we need to relook at the retirement age of people who have worked for a long time in very ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I support this agreement. I thank the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing for a job well done. We should incorporate all the relevant committees in future. That is so that we could have as many ideas as possible put into those agreements for the good of the country. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman whereas I agree with the amendment as moved by the Chairman. I am concerned with (e) the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-money Laundering Act No.9 of 2009 for being included in the proposed amendment. I think if by including it then it means people who have stolen from the Kenyan public will endure the period of serving in prisons and nothing will happen. What if we have a provision where they will be forced to restitute and give back what they have stolen from the public? For example, I have in mind the former Town Clerk ... view