Caroli Omondi

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I will also try and be very brief. I rise to support this Motion by Hon. Atandi where he is calling upon this House to resolve that the national Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock...

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this Motion. What we are discussing is an element of what is called the ‘gig economy,’ where individuals on a freelance basis or side hustle engage in certain activities....

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, looking at the category of youths engaged in this gig economy, the legal framework we are going to propose should exempt them from paying income tax and instead impose a corporate tax on the technology companies. This is because if we...

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. So that I make progress on the other clauses, I will leave it here. It will suffer the same fate as the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) .

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Hon. Temporary Speaker, thank you for giving me this opportunity. I invite Members to pay very keen attention to the Budget Policy Statement with respect to the NG-CDF. The reduction of NG-CDF allocation is at Ksh38 billion. So, what we are discussing is just...

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to speak on the NADCO Report and its recommendations. I note with a lot of gratitude that majority of the proposed amendments have been rejected. The first time I went through this Report, I...

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) I am reading the observations of the Committee. They said clearly that these amendments cannot be implemented.

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) Read the observations of the Committee. It has rejected. The proposal was overly ambitious. It would pose significant implementation challenges during the current term of Parliament.

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) They are saying: “It was the Committee’s view that it would be neater to implement the proposal at the term of the current Parliament”. Whatever it is, the bottom line is that it is not workable. We already have a solution in the current...

Hon. Caroli Omondi (Suba South, ODM) It says: “The Bill proposes to amend Articles 97 and 98 of the Constitution. New clauses are inserted to provide that where after the general election the two-thirds principle is not met in the National Assembly and the Senate…” This is where they will...