Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Should I contribute on the Bill or the amendments to come? view
• 17 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: I was saying that the way the Bill stands currently, everything is about the CS approving, giving licenses and doing all that, and there is need to place those powers elsewhere, so that we do not have too much power in one person and encourage corruption the way we have just come from a very corrupt exercise in the recruitment of police in this country. I think Kavulundi mismanaged the whole thing. view
• 17 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: So, corruption should be discouraged in this country by ensuring that there are more controls so that people may not misuse their powers. There are those small miners who are also captured in this Bill. Their interests should be well taken care of, because they have made various discoveries in terms of minerals. I know if they are not well protected, the big players or miners will come and take over those minerals without caring who discovered them in the first place. So, they need to be protected so that they are not snatched from them. There are issues of ... view
• 17 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: We know minerals are national assets but the people living in those areas where those minerals have been found must be taken care of. So, there should be some money going to the county government and the local community, either at the ward or location level, to take care of infrastructure facilities within those mining areas, so that we are not generating billions of shillings from those areas while the people there are languishing in poverty. I believe if we do something like that, we will not be having such conflicts like in the Niger Delta in Nigeria and South ... view
• 17 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is also one other issue which I want to mention. In this country, the cost of power is too high. That is why mining is a very important industry especially in terms of coal which has been discovered in various parts of this country. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I take this opportunity to request a Statement from the Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives regarding legitimacy and continued existence of the Tea Board of Kenya. The Tea Board of Kenya continues to levy what we call …. “tax” although under ALFA Act, the Tea Board of Kenya ceased to exist. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. The Chairman of the Departmental Committee Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operative has been taking things in a very simplistic manner. I did even work on an amendment to the Tea Act and he has sat on it. It has never been moved in his Committee and he is saying that the Tea Act does not exist. We have sat down with the lawyers of Parliament and that Act still exists. Why is the levy still there? He should not continue treating it as a simple when it is not that simple. This is an illegal levy on ... view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: He committed misdeeds along the corridors of Parliament that I want to correct using a non-existent Act; that is why I raised it another time on the Floor of the House. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: It is quite in order; I will urge him also to with what is before his Committee, or pass it to another committee. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this debate. Irrespective of whether the Report is amended, I stand to oppose it. view