Anthony Kimani Ichung'wah

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to begin from where the Leader of the Minority Party has stopped. Indeed, on the order that is purported to have been issued, I do not want to call it frivolous. It is out of litigation and, therefore, in...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) I did not say that, Hon. Speaker. It is the Leader of the Majority Party who is speaking loudly. I am saying there is essential expenditure that we have agreed with them that probably should not be touched, but there is also non-essential expenditure even...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Of course, Hon. Kanchory is aware that the Budget and Appropriations Committee is composed of very eminent personalities in this House, and who are not likely to be confused by anything. As you are aware, it came at a time when...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, I agree with the Leader of the Minority Party that we must have a system on how we transact committee business especially if you are a Member of a committee. I will not expect Hon. John Mbadi as a Member of my Committee...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I forgot my card in the coat I was wearing yesterday. I stand to support the Motion by the Committee on Delegated Legislation. A number of issues have been raised. I do not know whether to call one of them an...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) And the Kitui-Kibwezi Road that Hon. Nyamai is speaking about. I, therefore, want to beg and plead with the Members of this House. Lastly, let me speak to something that transpired yesterday. I am aware that there are those Members who have asked about the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I also wish to support the Statement by Hon. Didmus. Hon. Speaker, with regard to what you are being asked to give direction on, Standing Order No.42 is quite clear. I have just been perusing through it. The drafters of these...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) On a point of order, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, my point of order is on that amendment. I want to agree with what Hon. Martha has said in terms of the nominee. However, there is something that the Hon. Member for Gilgil mentioned. She said that matters to do with the Public...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, I was seeking your guidance because the House, in my view, has two options. It is important for the House to realise that this is the last day that we have, otherwise, all these nominees will be deemed to have been approved by...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I support the amendment by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. As I mentioned during the Second Reading, many of these service – If you read the import of that amendment, there was even...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the proposed amendment by Hon. Moses Kuria. It is important to note that, as much as we are in the Committee of the whole House, people never participate in the Second Reading and do not read committee reports. The...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am really in support of the amendments as proposed by the Chair and the Committee. It is not that I do not want the amendments but, I am rather uncomfortable with Clause 19 (c) as it is on...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) I propose that we pass those ones without Clause 19 (c) .

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) I have said I am very much in support of the Chair’s amendment, save for what is in the Bill on that which I have reservations on.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) The Leader of the Majority Party is quite right that I have no amendment. I must thank you because I am sure you wanted to give me an opportunity to convince Members why we should vote in the negative. This proposal in the Finance Bill...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I also support the amendment and, especially, what Hon. Atandi has said. Indeed, in Kenya, we are still at a very low level of taxation on the “sin taxes”. I want to encourage the Chairperson of the Finance Committee and Hon....

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let me commend the Committee for proposing increment from 10 per cent to 20 per cent and also thank the Speaker for his guidance in line with Article 114 in declining the proposed amendments by the two Members. As the Speaker...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, let me thank the Chair and the Committee again for that amendment. Let me also take this opportunity to speak to the Office of the Attorney-General (AG) and those who sit at the national Treasury. The import of some of the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I could not agree more with the Committee and, more so, first, in disagreeing with the National Treasury in terms of the proposals in the Finance Bill. They have listened to the people of Kenya. Secondly, it is a...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) It is Ichung’wah and not Ichung’wah. Ichung’wah sounds like an orange and I have no relation with oranges other than eating them the same way we will eat these oranges when the time comes. Let me raise my reservation also with the proposed amendments. First,...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) It is working. Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.8 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. As you have rightly said, what we have just done with the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Switch on the microphone, Hon. Deputy Speaker. You are prone to get agitated when you see Senators in Kitui County purporting that the date was amended in this House while they know the facts. If they were sleeping in the Mediation Committee meeting, they can...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Tetema is a song that has been banned by Ezekiel Mutua of the Kenya Film Classification Board (KFCB) and yet there are governors who are very good at dancing in fora. When they are not dancing to the Tetema beat, they are socialising with socialites...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Deputy Speaker, of course, I appreciate that the Leader of the Majority Party is seconding me, but I was wondering whether he is in order to name Senators by name.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) He is naming Sen. Kajwang’ and Sen. Wamatangi and purporting there is some club somewhere where they meet to do certain things.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I reply. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. (Ms.) Jessica Mbalu) : Very well. Hon. Ichung’wah has replied and, therefore, I will put the Question. Let us have the Leader of the Majority Party, before I put the Question. September 18, 2019...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move that the Committee doth report to the House its consideration of the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.8 of 2019) , and its approval thereof without amendments. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to) The...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee in the said Report. I also request Hon. Pukose to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.8 of 2019) be now read the Third Time. I also request Hon. Cheptumo to second.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I also rise to support the Motion. As I support it, for those who have been with me from the 11th Parliament, I am one of the Members who have endeavoured to avoid engaging in debate between ourselves and...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) There is nothing out of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The Temporary Deputy Speaker (Hon. Patrick Mariru) : Order, Hon. Ichung’wah! You

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if Hon. Arati had listened to my, otherwise very good English, he would have known that I was giving that as an example. But I know he has a challenge with the language. Therefore, I beg to continue. (Laughter) Order, Hon....

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, I beg to move an amendment to the Motion to recommit a Vote: THAT, the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of Supply be amended by inserting the following words “Subject to re-committal of Vote 1066 (State Department for early...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, I, therefore, beg to move that the House doth agree with me…

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, as I said, the proposed amendment is to move the money from the Ministry of Public Service, Youth and Gender to that of Education. The simple reason is that there was a further amendment by Hon. Sabina Chege on moving the money from...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Speaker, I think I had said what I needed to say. I wanted to also clarify that, indeed, this amendment is one of the numerous amendments that we considered yesterday in the BAC amongst the amendments that came from the National Treasury. I beg...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Leader of the Majority Party and yourself for the guidance. Let me state the following: One, it is, indeed, true that this came through a letter with a myriad of other amendments affecting the Ministry of Education, the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) On a point of order. The Temporary Deputy Chairman (Hon. Patrick Mariru) : What is your point of order, Hon. Ichung’wah? Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I think what Nominee 001 is loudly expressing himself regarding BAC is, indeed, true. I...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, even as I support this very huge allocation, you will realise that a figure of about Kshs253 billion is almost 15 per cent of the revenues that we raised in the 2018/2019 Financial Year. It is, probably, about 12 per cent...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, if you allow me, I just wanted to make a correction because Hon. Washiali is asking and from what I have heard, a number of Hon. Members are confusing this vote with that of the National Police Service (NPS) . This...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Sorry, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. The Temporary Deputy Speaker, Hon. Omulele, was asking me something very interesting. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move that the Committee of Supply doth report to the House its consideration of the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House doth agree with the Committee of Supply in its consideration of the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2019/2020 and, pursuant to the provisions of Article 221 of the Constitution of Kenya, Section 39...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, just allow me to profoundly thank Members for the support that they have accorded the Budget and Appropriations Committee throughout the budget-making process from the time we started considering the Estimates at the beginning of May. They agreed to use their...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Yes, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, the Senate amendments to the Division of Revenue Bill (National Assembly Bill No.11 of 2019) be now considered. Hon. Speaker, the communication that was sent to your office from the Senate has a number...

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I reply, let me take this opportunity to thank Members who have contributed, including the Member for Bomet Central, who had the only differing view which we truly appreciate. It is important to note that even those Members like Hon....

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended in the Schedule in the proposed amendments to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act (No. 33 of 2015) –

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended in the Schedule in the proposed amendments to the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act (No. 33 of 2015) by−

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, we consider amendments that have money Bill effect in line with Article 114 of the Constitution and by the time the Budget and Appropriations Committee considered these amendments, we had agreed with Hon. Moses Kuria and communicated the same to the...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to agree with the Vice-Chair of the Public Investments Committee who, indeed, stated that as legislators we should not be curtailed by the views of the National Treasury. The provisions of code 14 are clear that it...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I join Hon. Kajwang’ in strongly opposing that particular provision. As Hon. Cecily has said, you are limiting the Attorney-General’s time in terms of being able to review very voluminous documents.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) The issue of contracts that are worth Kshs5 billion being scrutinised, as Hon. T.J says, is to offer due diligence to the process. There was reason why it is huge contracts of over Kshs5 billion. We must desist from being used as tender- preneurs. It...

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, the proposal of the amendment has explained one bit of the amendment in terms of the extension of the period. The devil is in those reimbursable costs. The devil is in the details.

Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah (Kikuyu, JP) I want further clarification on what these reimbursable costs are.

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I want to express myself on this amendment. I only sought a clarification on what I said: the devil could be in the details.

Hon. Kimani Ichung'wah (Kikuyu, JP) When he explained what these reimbursable costs are, he confirmed my fears that the devil is in the details because he is speaking about variation of cost. I will speak as a former Vice-Chair of the Public Investments Committee. The genesis of all corruption in...