Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Again, going through this Division of Revenue Bill, the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) is being allocated Kshs160 billion. This is too little. This will only recruit about 5,000 teachers. We know that the teachers’ shortage in this country is around 90,000. We need to recruit a minimum of 20,000 teachers this year. I wish the allocation to TSC could be adjusted upwards to take care of the teachers’ recruitment and harmonization of leave allowances. Teachers are highly discriminated. Other public servants enjoy leave allowance, but the teachers do not. I wish that during the Budget- making process, we consider that ... view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Senior principals in big institutions do not enjoy responsibility allowance with all the responsibility that they have in their institutions. Those are the kind of issues which I would wish are addressed. With regard to the issue of Rural Electrification Authority (REA), I am happy that we are allocating about Kshs3.7 billion to REA to go to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: counties to ensure that there is power to pump water, and in health centres while the national Government provides electricity to primary schools. I wish we could give more funds towards that very important role. view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: As we take all that money to those levels, both the national Government and the county governments, we must have accountability. That money should not be siphoned or stolen. It should be used for the right purposes. When we hear that about Kshs500 billion cannot be accounted for in the national Government, it is quite unfortunate. That is the exact thing we are devolving to the counties. The fellows in the counties are also practising corruption in tendering and procurement. At least, in my county I know that this is not right. They have even gone beyond this saying that ... view
• 22 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I was quite comfortable with the figure of Kshs239 billion going to the counties because that was already calculated by the Treasury and I tend to trust what the fellows at the Treasury do. I believe they have done their accounts quite well. The figure of Kshs239 billion is a good figure. Because it is said that this is a money Bill and we might not get adequate opportunity to bring in amendments, which I wanted to bring, I support this idea of allocating Kshs226 billion to the county governments. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I was here but I had just gone out, so do not think I was away. I want to take this opportunity to commend the President for a Speech well delivered and touching on various issues which are key to our lives and the common man. More so, on the idea of devolution, that the Jubilee Government supports it and it has ensured that the functions which would have taken three years to devolve have already been devolved. What I would simply urge is that we encourage a better way of working between the national Government ... view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: On the issue of wages, I know that the President and the Deputy President announced that they were taking salary cuts. However, according to media briefs, I think they are yet to officially write for their salaries to be deducted. I do not know if this was a preventive measure such that those who are currently underpaid in terms of salaries and allowances do not raise any issue because we are approaching the Budget making process. I know there are certain categories of public servants who are underpaid, especially the teachers. I know they were planning to bring up the ... view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: I also expected, because this Jubilee Government has achieved a lot, an itemized breakdown of what this Government has achieved, one of which I can easily mention is free maternity services. I think that has been rolled out. We are still waiting for the laptops and I believe they are on the way. I expected an itemized breakdown of the achievements of the Government. I hope in other forums this will be mentioned. view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: There is also the other critical sector which was not mentioned; the agriculture sector. It was mentioned but I expected more. For example, where I come from, we depend on tea farming. For the first time in the last, I believe, five to six years, our farmers are going to miss the May bonus. There is usually a May bonus. They will not get it. I expected a suggestion on how that will be contained. Tea farmers are experiencing a lot of frustrations due to the current high taxes. What are we going to do on VAT? I believe this ... view
• 1 Apr 2014 in National Assembly: Tax. I believe that tax should be removed because it is only in Kenya where it is applied. That tax should be removed so that our farmers can enjoy tea farming view