Robert Mbui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 751 to 760 of 970.

• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make my contribution to this Motion. I want to first begin by saying that we discuss many extremely important Motions in this House. When we started off the day’s session in the morning, Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo raised a very serious concern about this particular Motion, which I would like to remind the House. He said that there were a lot of discussions on cattle rustling in the last Parliament, which went all the way to public participation. The Members moved around the country and collected views. A report ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I went to the Table Office recently to try and bring in a Motion or rather to query on a Statement to do with social assistance programme. I was told it had already been done by another Member. However, when I checked the records, they showed that what the other Member had asked about was about banking for the beneficiaries. My statement or concern was about the committee allowances. So, we need to ensure our offices are working to ensure that we do not duplicate issues. view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of implementation. We debate every Wednesday in the morning for four hours on Motions, but how many are implemented? I remember on our first year in office, we discussed at length the construction of 20 kilometres of tarmac per year, in every constituency. Members supported it overwhelmingly. We were all so excited. It is three years down the road, and nothing has been done. We will finish our five years, and nothing will have been done. I want us to be serious about implementation of Motions, so that when we discuss them, then they do ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: This is a Motion that seeks to declare cattle rustling a national disaster. It also seeks to set up a special fund to ensure that the victims of that kind of crime are compensated. I have several issues with this. The first one is that insecurity in this country is a national disaster, but not when it comes to cattle rustling. We have insecurity all over. Almost everyday, when you open a newspaper or switch on your television or radio, you get reports about people who have been mugged, murdered and maimed because of different types of crimes. Why are ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: There is also the issue of aftermath of cattle rustling, which is compensation. Why are we setting a special fund for people who are affected by cattle rustlers? What about the people who are affected by carjackers, bank robbers and all the other victims? We need to come up with a victim protection arrangement where we compensate all our victims, but not the ones of cattle rustling only. So, I believe that it is important to look at it holistically, but not just look at regions. There are Motions which specify regions. This Motion is very clear. There is also ... view
• 22 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, with those few remarks, I oppose the Motion as it is framed. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I want to thank my able Chairman, Hon. Wafula Wamunyinyi, for coming up with a legislation that will fight for his people. That is the purpose of this House and the work that all of us should be doing. I am not from a sugar growing area and so, I will be as brief as possible because I know there are those who have vested interests in this debate. We used to grow sugar-cane in Kathiani a while back but ours used to be for making local brews. Unfortunately, ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Kenya is predominantly an agricultural country. A while back, we had the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) which was dealing with livestock farming in Kenya. Botswana borrowed heavily from KMC ideas. They formed Botswana Meat Commission, which is currently exporting beef from Africa to Europe. However, KMC collapsed. Money was injected in KMC, but it collapsed again. Currently, we have some billions in the Budget which we want to give to KMC. We need to ensure that our industries, which can bring profit to this nation, are empowered. The Government needs to make serious effort in ensuring ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The sugar industry is very hard hit because of sugar barons. If we continue to tax the sugar farmers heavily, we will create a loophole for people to come in as middlemen and import sugar through the back door and sell it locally. Regional integration is a very key thing. We need to understand that Kenya is not alone. We operate within a region where there are other nations. One of the areas which a nation can grow is by enhancing international trade. Kenyan sugar is extremely expensive. That means that as we continue with our integration process, we are ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I support the Value Added Tax (Amendment) Bill. The CORD Members of Parliament have played a very critical role in fighting the tax regime in this nation. I will not fail to mention Hon. John Mbadi and Hon. Wamunyinyi. That is the way to go. We need to pool together our efforts and ensure that taxation in this country is fair for all. view