Hon. Richard Nyagaka Tongi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: million is created in a very short time. Elsewhere in the world, wealth is created over generations, it is a family tree. But in Africa you wake up one morning… that is why our youth are betting in the hope of winning a jackpot. No wonder, gambling is becoming a very popular thing in the country because our youth believe that you can wake up one morning and become a multibillionaire. We cannot build a society based on guesswork where people are waiting for miracles to happen for them to get wealth. That does not happen, it is not sustainable, ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity. From the outset, I am supporting this Bill. It is time we made amendments to the health sector because they are key. We need to harmonise them with the changes in the Constitution because most of the functions of the health sector have been devolved yet we have not prepared our laws to conform to the changes of the county functions. If you look at what is going on at the county level, the Members of Parliament have participated by way of constructing health centres. Counties have not taken them up. They argue ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, there are many overlapping laws concerning health. We all know that health is a very key component when it comes to enhancing a healthy society. Successful countries in the world have succeeded by addressing the issue of health comprehensively. We cannot do it piecemeal the way we are doing it and expect to achieve a lot. The Jubilee agenda is to ensure healthcare is provided to everybody. To achieve that, there is need for us to harmonise the laws so that the county functions are undertaken by the counties and the national Government also does its bit. Fiscal ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Healthcare is key among the Big Four Agenda of the President. If it is so and we have to achieve it, all of us have a duty to support it. One way we can support it as a law-making House is to make sure that the laws we pass today agree with the laws counties have passed, so that we do not have the back and forth that we normally have. Most of our county hospitals refer patients to the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH). When you go to our county hospitals, even before they do anything, they refer you to ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I have another concern. I am sure it is also a concern for most of the Members of Parliament. It is about health centres which were constructed by the National Government- Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). Most of the health centres we constructed under that Fund are now ghost buildings. They are not utilised at the moment. Most of them have been abandoned by the counties. They are saying it was not their function and that they are not their brainchild. All of us agree that those health centres were meant to mitigate the congestion at the national Government hospitals and ... view
• 2 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: scene of accident to the hospital is in itself a major contribution to your going forward with treatment. With those very many words, I support. It is timely. However, I hope there will be amendments to address those gaps that we have between the national Government and the county governments so that we can have seamless service to our people, if we were to achieve the Big Four Agenda, especially on matters health. Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this amendment. It is founded on the grounds that the banks have suffered a lot in the past. We have a history of banks which have closed down and in the process people have lost a lot of money. We are all aware of what is going on with Imperial Bank and Chase Bank. Part of the reasons banks have gone under is because they were founded on a very weak foundation. As a banker, I am speaking with authority. The foundation of a bank is ... view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: I support the amendment. However, we should cascade it, so that we do not have to do it all at once. We should cascade it in such a way that it graduates from one point to the next one, so that we safeguard the investment of Kenyans who invests in the bank in the faith that it is strong enough to keep their wealth. We are empowered to do that as Members of Parliament. If we do not do that, we will lose our core foundation of protecting Kenyans. view
• 30 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support it. view
• 29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to speak to this Petition. From the outset, I support the Petition which has been brought forth by my neighbour, Hon. Obiri. The people on the ground have suffered heavily. We have had a chance to witness and Hon. Obiri is on record trying to resolve the issue in a more amicable way. Actually, he was arrested and detained in police cells over the weekend because he was articulating the issues of his people which brought him to Parliament. We are concerned as a community. We appreciate that the people are making ... view