Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: of Education to try as much as possible to inculcate in our workers, public officers and our citizenry the need to avoid acts of corruption. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Data prevailing in the country, whether reliable or not, indicate that probably almost a quarter or 30 per cent of the annual budget, be it development or recurrent, is lost through corruption. That is a colossal sum of money that could have been used to move this country forward. It is even said that many of our jobless youths, our graduates and many of our men and women who are jobless are jobless because of acts that border on corruption. They are jobless and they lack any sense of employment or income generation because they have been denied an opportunity ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, to the best of my knowledge - and I would like my colleague to clarify - we have various political parties in this House, that is, the Jubilee Party, the Orange Democratic Movement (ODM) and those other small ones. Is the Member in order to introduce another party that does not appear in the official records of Parliament? view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I stand to support the proposed amendment by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. I say so on two accounts. While it might be desirable to increase the Capital Gains Tax from 5 per cent to 12 per cent, this is at the wrong time. The real estate market, especially the housing market, is doing so badly such that increasing taxes will reduce housing absorption and purchase. Secondly, in a country where we do not account for the inflation index, by increasing the rate of Capital Gains Tax from ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I stand to support the proposed amendment. Those of us in the housing sector know that one of the greatest impediments to house ownership and increased velocity of the housing market is lack of affordable finance. If we get any avenue that provides finance at affordable terms, we should encourage it. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I support and I believe that this is a progressive approach. We hope the Central Bank of Kenya, the Insurance Regulatory Authority and related authorities will come up with progressive regulations and rules to enable effective implementation of the amendment. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill in the budget-making cycle of the Republic of Kenya. As required by the provisions of the Constitution and the law, now that we passed the Division of Revenue Bill and the County Revenue Allocation Bill, the next and final process is the Finance Bill. view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I am encouraged by the presentation of the Chair of the respective Committee. He said that the proposed taxation measures will result in an increase in tax collection or tax revenue of about Kshs30 billion. Like all Kenyans, we are concerned by the impact of taxation. Literally, it is said that we are heavily taxed in Kenya and yet we do not see the result or outcome of the revenue that is collected. A typical earner or worker in this country is subjected to an income tax which is probably 30 per cent and 16 per cent when he purchases ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Secondly, and this applies to both the national Government and the county government, we must get value for the money that is collected as taxes. There are numerous cases of corruption and looting of public resources to an extent that out of whatever is collected, it is only 50 per cent that ends up being useful to this country. The Bill contains provisions. Some are good and progressive, but some are objectionable. They will make life for the typical mwananchi too hard and expensive. I will mention a few of the progressive and positive provisions in the Bill. One, taxation ... view