Yusuf Kifuma Chanzu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I support the Finance Bill. I think what we have seen over time is: For those who are charged with the responsibility of collecting tax, they are concentrating too much on Income Tax. That is because it is easier to collect at source from the salaries that people earn. But with time we expect that the agencies that are involved - the Kenya Revenue The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Authority (KRA) and others - should widen the scope so that they are able to collect more tax. I remember some time back - about two or three years ago - there was the idea of collecting tax from those having properties - houses and so on. They were not able to put in place proper mechanisms to do that. What the property owners would do is hike the rent so that those who are renting the houses pay more to the extent that the landowners end up not paying anything. Those are the diversifications that the Kenya Revenue Authority ... view
• 12 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: mechanical department which specializes in purchasing, hiring and maintenance of the equipment. Once the machinery is bought and is stored, there will be a lot of vandalism. A small county like Vihiga buys equipment worth Kshs100 million and yet children in school do not have chakula . That is why I am saying that the money must be put to proper use. The Controller of Budget has been reporting on some of the mischief by some of the counties. I think the Government does not have capacity. The Auditor-General’s Office does not seem to have capacity to check on that. ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to support this very important Bill. I want to commend hon. Jared Opiyo for bringing this Bill. It has taken a long time for us to think this way from the 80s, when AIDS was discovered. Since 1998/99 when AIDS was declared a national disaster in the country, we have had various institutions dealing with HIV/AIDS, including NGOs. That is where the problem comes in because even the money that we receive in terms of aid towards research and treatment of HIV/AIDS has not been handled well. There has ... view
• 30 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: in the Ministry of Health felt that they should be the ones to deal with it, but the Office of the President also felt that, maybe, because it had the matter of AIDS at its heart, it was the best placed to deal with it. You can imagine the kind of confusion that has brought. They do not have experts in the Office of the President. This has been taken round in circles. We even had the Ministry of Special Programmes, which tried to deal with the matter. This has been handled in a very haphazard manner. That is the ... view
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this important Bill. I want to congratulate--- 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
• 23 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support this Bill which is very important for our wellbeing as a community. I want to take this opportunity to thank and congratulate the Member for Emuhaya and my neighbour, Mhe. (Dr.) Ottichilo for thinking very wisely and coming up with the Bill. We have heard time and again, this is a global phenomenon, but the only thing which we have done as a country is to be able to attend seminars and workshops worldwide, without thinking about what we can contribute ourselves locally from here. It is important now ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. This is a Bill that we all have to support. It is one of the Bills that are going to help us to deal with the issue of human rights sector that has been quite complicated. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: The biggest problem is lack of information because there is a lot that goes on, for example, in the rural areas and more than 90 per cent of the victims do not report their cases because they do not know what to do. There are children who are molested, women who are raped and men who are harassed by others in those areas and this is not reported because they do not have any avenue to report. In fact, there are very few cases which are reported on radio and newspapers. So, there is a lot that this Bill will ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: when it comes to reporting. Some of us have tried to report cases to police stations and sometimes you are given very interesting conditions. Sometimes if they want to investigate a matter, they ask for fuel or say they do not have vehicles. A number of people end up giving up and are not able to report their cases. For those people who do not have money to pay, it is a very big problem. This Bill has come in at the opportune time although it would have been much better if it had come earlier. It is good that ... view