Hon Simon Nganga Kingara

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: May I come closer home. Let us assume that somebody is going abroad using a foreign plane. I will not mention any name. You have paid for your expensive ticket because you are going to United States of America (USA). If you are two, a wife and husband, you spend Kshs400,000 and then people block the road because of their rights and you miss the flight. You have paid that country that money and you have to pay again because the plane has left and yet you wanted to go. You have to pay. You have robbed yourself and your ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The private sector should not be left un-considered when we are trying to look for our rights. Just the other day as we were seated here, Cardianal Otunga Plaza was vandalised behind our backs and yet we are law makers. Are we making any law? We need to have order. How do we have that order? We should come up with designated areas for picketing and demonstrations. If we do that, we will be at par with people in the developed world who are orderly. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: From that talk, did anyone take stock and quantify what happened as we were running up and down. It is important to have a glance and see what happened. Allow me to read some statistics to expose what happened and what we should stop doing. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Trends and Insights for Africa (TIFA) was busy looking at the negative effects that occurred. It wrote a TIFA, 2017 Report that can be found in the library or elsewhere. It recorded that for the finance sector, a single bank lost Kshs166,722 every day. That is quantifiable; it is on record and it can be referred to. A newspaper vendor, when we demonstrate or picket, does not work. What is the effect of that on them? Each vendor loses Kshs10,000 per day. The Report goes ahead to show the effect of a demonstration on a boda boda individual. On average, ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: An average hotel in the CBD loses around Kshs150,000 per day when they close as a result of demonstrations. The food rots and people cannot get in to eat. Before I leave that, let me indicate what happens to the forex bureaus where we go to change our currency. They lose Kshs60,000 on average. There is a more worrying one here. When the 8th August 2017 presidential elections were nullified, in a single day, the Nairobi Securities Exchange was affected. It lost Kshs50 billion that day. That is captured on record. We can see what we have done to our ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: That is a tabulation of who was affected by the demonstrations. What is the emerging total? Allow me to quote again. Capital Markets Authority Report of 2017 is well known. It says that we lost Kshs900 billion in total in a single year and yet, we are crying as we try to look for Kshs200 billion out there. We lost almost a trillion! Are we not shooting ourselves in the foot? I leave the answer to this honourable House. With respect to Article 37, let me pose another question. Can we do our business? That is known. Again, has anybody ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: record. You can google it. Are they doing better? The answer is 100 per cent yes. I heard the other day that even if you say sorry 1,000 times, it remains one. They are now benefitting. Maybe, one would wonder, “Was it only that?”Allow me to give an example of Mr. Tan Kin Lian, a CEO in Singapore. When that country refused to respect the private sector, those people went to the Speaker’s corner and picketed there for days. That was just the other day, in 2008. They picketed until their cry was heard. Sobriety came and their economy started ... view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I know people may think that it is not in order to restrict. However, it is through restriction that we get order. For instance, I cannot come without my tie, in this honourable House. It is an order which has been borrowed from elsewhere and it is working. Let us borrow orders and regulations. Even our Constitution and Standing Orders are borrowed from elsewhere and they are working and are doing well to us. I think it is in order for this House to humbly accept my request and support this Motion so that we get soberness and order. view
• 21 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to move and request Hon. John Paul to second. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Asante sana Naibu Spika wa Muda, kwa jicho lako la ujasiri kwa kuniona na kunipatia mwanya wa kuchangia mjadala huu ulio na uzito mkali, kama vile ulitangulia kusema pale mwanzo. Kila mtu hapa ameguzwa kwa njia moja ama nyingine na masuala ya kiafya. Si mzaha kusikia joto kali kutokana na usemi wa kiongozi wetu kutoka Mombasa, “Jicho Pevu”. Na ni jicho pevu halisi. Ni vizuri kutilia uzito mkuu masuala ya afya kuliko mambo mengine yoyote yale. Ni afya njema imetuwezesha kuja hapa na hata kutupatia nguvu ya kucheka. Langu ni kuwakumbusha Wabunge na Wakenya kwa jumla kuwa Kenya iko na ... view