Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 631 to 640 of 970.

• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Governor. Sorry, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute on the Kenya Trade Remedies Bill, 2017 by my colleague and friend, the Member for Ugenya, David Ochieng. The goal of any Government is to assist its people to have socio-economic development. When we attained our Independence, we set out to eradicate poverty, ignorance and disease. Issues of ignorance are handled by the education policy, issues of disease are under the health sector and issues of poverty are under the trade sector. This Bill basically tries to give solutions to some of the issues that we set ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Governor. Sorry, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute on the Kenya Trade Remedies Bill, 2017 by my colleague and friend, the Member for Ugenya, David Ochieng. The goal of any Government is to assist its people to have socio-economic development. When we attained our Independence, we set out to eradicate poverty, ignorance and disease. Issues of ignorance are handled by the education policy, issues of disease are under the health sector and issues of poverty are under the trade sector. This Bill basically tries to give solutions to some of the issues that we set ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: I support this Bill. It proposes some remedies to these problems, the first remedy being the antidumping levy. If countries out the reproduce low quality items and they want to export them to us, and we know for sure that these items are not of the value that they are being sold at in our country, then, it is important for us to implement the antidumping levy. We put a levy on those goods so that by the time they are being sold in the local market, their prices are higher than the prices of similar locally produced goods. That ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: I support this Bill. It proposes some remedies to these problems, the first remedy being the antidumping levy. If countries out the reproduce low quality items and they want to export them to us, and we know for sure that these items are not of the value that they are being sold at in our country, then, it is important for us to implement the antidumping levy. We put a levy on those goods so that by the time they are being sold in the local market, their prices are higher than the prices of similar locally produced goods. That ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: We may also consider controlling the imports of locally available goods. It is important for any country to protect its industries. If we allow commodities that we can produce locally to be imported, it means that we are not building our people’s capacity. It also means that we are unable to provide the jobs that are critical to eradicate poverty as we set out to do when we gained Independence. So, it is important that we do these things. The Bill also proposes to establish a government agency for investigation and enforcement of the above. When I look at some ... view
• 17 May 2017 in National Assembly: We may also consider controlling the imports of locally available goods. It is important for any country to protect its industries. If we allow commodities that we can produce locally to be imported, it means that we are not building our people’s capacity. It also means that we are unable to provide the jobs that are critical to eradicate poverty as we set out to do when we gained Independence. So, it is important that we do these things. The Bill also proposes to establish a government agency for investigation and enforcement of the above. When I look at some ... view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order. view
• 9 May 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. With all due respect, is it fair for these defectors from the National Super Alliance (NASA) to sit where our Leader of Minority Party, the Deputy Leader of Minority Party and the Whip are supposed to sit? view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to also make my contribution on this very important Bill by Hon. Agoi. I had tried to raise a point of order when my colleague was speaking because he raised a very interesting aspect about university admission being anything above C+ (Plus). I have been in the education sector in this country and over the years, we know that students are not condemned because of failing because there are many options. One is to repeat that class and improve the grades or go through certain bridging courses so as ... view
• 29 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: There is also this business of saying that we are very happy as a nation because in last year’s examinations we reduced the number of As. We keep implying that this is a country made up of thieves in the academic sector. We need to be careful what we say to people. We need to say that last year’s exams were hard and that is why the number of As reduced. If you say that the previous results were stolen--- I passed my A-Level examinations and went to the university. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view