Samuel Kamunye Gichigi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Sep 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I rise under Standing Order No.97. I, therefore, beg to move:- That, the time to debate this Motion be limited to five minutes for every Member contributing. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I want to raise a point of order based on the Standing Order No.133(5). For the benefit of the House, it reads like this:- “(5) No amendment shall be permitted to be moved if the amendment deals with a different subject or proposes to unreasonably or unduly expand the subject of the Bill, or is not appropriate or is not in logical sequence to the subject matter of the Bill”. view
• 28 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: The Chairman of the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade brought to this House the Finance Bill, which has the intention of dealing with measures to raise revenue in this country. What is being introduced by the present amendment is something that is completely different from issues of taxation. Composition of the NSSF Board and the quorum of that Board’s meeting has nothing to do with the Finance Bill or raising of revenue in this country. In my opinion, the reason that we have this Standing Order is to make sure that new matters are not brought to the Committee ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I do not think I quite got the thrust of what the Chairman said about this amendment in relation to taxation. At this stage, it is important that everybody in this House understands the implications of the proposed amendment. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I have in the past before this House supported re-introduction of capital gains in this country. Even in future proposed amendments, I will be doing it. If that is the import of the proposed amendment, the Government will forcefully, or compulsorily, acquire my land, my one acre that is already encroached on by a road or an electricity line. They come and value the land at Kshs500,000 and give me that Kshs500,000 to go and acquire another parcel of land where I can find it; the Government is now telling me that they will tax the ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am moving that this Committee should re-commit clause 3 of this Bill for the following reasons--- view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman thank you. I am also supporting these amendments. I am happy about Clause 25A; previously, all Government enterprise, or business with Government attracted VAT, but it was found to be a bit cumbersome. I think a mistake was made by withdrawing that particular law. What happened practically was that the Government was completely unable to collect VAT from most small and medium size enterprises. What this law is going to do now is that anytime an enterprise will do business with Government, its data will be captured and the Government will be able to follow up ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, what is in the Bill is a proposal by the Government to get all civil servants out of contributions at the NSSF. As you all know, we have had serious problems with the Government creating a pensions scheme for its employees and every other time a civil servant retires, they end up in a lot of trouble trying to get their money from the Government. Now, in this financial year, the Government has set aside about Kshs10 billion to set up the scheme and yet, instead of doing it, it wants to opt out of NSSF. ... view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will also support the Motion but I am moving an amendment that the Motion be amended by inserting the words “subject to re-committal of Clause 3”. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I support it but the Chair may consider dropping the provision on page 389(h)(i) which is talking about compulsory acquisition. view