Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, let me start with the clarification sought by Dr. Khalwale. We must make a distinction between what he calls stolen funds and ineligible expenses. Starting with the funds, the funds that were proved to have been stolen or obtained through fraud, action was taken against individual officers who either took the imprests and submitted forged receipts or took imprests and did not account for it. So action was decided to be taken against the individual officers and not the Accounting Officer because when you take imprest, it is personal. You are the one who is supposed ... view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am going to table all these reports; they are huge. I thought I may need to refer to them but I am going to do that. On the clarification sought by Mr. Njuguna, again, we had to unlock--- view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I explained very clearly, we had to unlock further disbursements because this was affecting further credit. So it is true that we refunded the amounts from the Budget and other programmes obviously were affected but it was in a way a good investment because it view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was moving. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be very quick because, as you can see even from the volume of the Finance Bill, I have reduced it to just a few pages. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, let me thank the hon. Members for their cordial support to the budgetary process and other related Government policies, aimed at sustaining and enhancing the economic growth and development of our country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the taxation measures I proposed in the Finance Bill, 2012 are aimed at complementing the broader economic policies that I outlined in both the Budget ... view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, as the KRA continues to expand the tax base, we expect a lot of tax disputes. Instead of this committee being a jua kali one, we now want to have specific qualifications for the members. We are sure that will increase efficiency. view
• 14 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The other amendment is on retirement schemes. They are important, and through them, coverage of savings for retirement can be achieved. To strengthen governance, encourage Kenyans to save and promote their growth, I have proposed to amend the Retirement Benefits Act to bar individual retirement benefits schemes from appointing corporate trustees related to their sponsors. Again, we want to make sure that the retirement benefits schemes are independent. We do not want the sponsor to also provide the services of trustees, because in this way, the independence will be lost. view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir--- view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is in line with what, I think, the Chair ruled, that every Ministry that needed to present all the pending Ministerial Statements be allocated a day. Today is for the Ministry of Finance, and I have three of them. The first one was by the Member for Nyakach; Mr. Ochieng’. The other ones were by Mr. Mungatana and Mr. Martin Ogindo. We actually called them from the office to alert them that we would be delivering the Ministerial Statements. However, I do not see them in the House. Therefore, I have no objection to delivering ... view
• 9 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this very important Bill. In doing so, we must recall that 2002 is when we had real change of power, administration and Government. That is the first time that we had real change of power and Government. There are four people that we need to commend because they were able to oversee the handover ceremony peacefully although this Bill was not in existence. The first person I would like to commend is hon. Uhuru Kenyatta because he did not even wait for all the votes to be counted ... view