Hon Samson Ndindi Nyoro

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I am being rudely interrupted. I hope I will be given those minutes back. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand guided and I rise to support the Supplementary Appropriation Bill. From the outset, I have to say that fiscal planning is actually one of the hardest things to do because you are dealing with limited resources. But you have to appropriate them with needs that are actually unlimited. Therefore, it is always a matter of priority. What do I fund and when? What cannot wait and what has to be done now? I have to say in this House that whereas I applaud the work that is being done by the people ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: 2012/2013 Financial Year, KRA was collecting around half of the money that we are collecting now. What I am trying to say is that even when it comes to spending Government money, there are gaps because around the same time when we were collecting around Kshs700 billion to Kshs800 billion in 2012/2013 Financial Year, our wage bill as a country was around Kshs270 billion. Currently, we are approaching Kshs400 billion without even adding the cost of maintaining those salaried officers in their offices. One of the issues that I grapple with as a Member of Parliament is the national cake ... view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: All I am trying to say, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker - and I will try to talk very fast - is that those are some of the areas where we can fetch money without necessarily carrying a huge burden by borrowing money. There is also the issue of duplication. Look at the current scenario on our roads. We have the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and many other entities. Why can we not have one body, one Director-General (DG) and then devolve all the other officers to supervise ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: (Inaudible) view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Report. Land is a very important factor of production and, according to me; it is the second most important factor of production apart from labour, which is human beings. view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: I have gone through the entire Report and I wish I was in that Committee so that I could have listened to the person who gave the key note speech, a gentleman called James Robison. I want to recommend a book he has written to all Members called: Why States Fail. It is a very important book especially to any leader in a growing economy like Kenya. Historically, there is a very clear correlation between land policy and economy growth. I say this because there are so many areas to borrow from. Economic growth is realised when land is liberalised. ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: An example is the 1950s growth of southern America. Then, land was owned by a few people and, of course, they hired slaves. There is a correlation of Gross Domestic Product growth especially between northern and southern America. In northern America, where land was a bit liberalised, there was a clear growth of the economy in that area. We can also borrow about land policy and its importance to the growth of any economy by the trends in China. During the reign of Mao Zedong in China, the famous Chairman of the Communist Party, there was a policy he The ... view
• 16 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: came up with that was called: “The Great Leap Forward.” Another one that followed closely was the “Cultural Revolution.” The government was forcing farmers to work like slaves in China in the land that was more or largely owned by the Government. There is a very clear difference between the reign of Mao Zedong then and the time of the great leap forward and the reign of a person like Deng Xiaoping. When Deng Xiaoping became the Chair of the Communist Party, one of the things they did with the entire leadership of the Communist Party is to kind of ... view