Irungu Kang'ata

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to second the Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 2) Bill, 2016. The proposed amendments to the Betting, Lotteries and Gaming Act (Chapter 131 of the Laws of Kenya) make a lot of sense. The idea is to harmonise that law with the...

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I have the Agreement as part of the annexure to this Report. I am trying to look at whether all the issues pertaining to what I am raising have been captured in this Agreement. For instance, Article 4 of the Agreement says: “Expenditures by...

Hon. Kang’ata Hon. Speaker, I am looking at this document. I know it is divided in three parts. We have the Committee Report, which has an annexure and it is the one I am referring to. You can clearly see that I am also reading the annexure, part of which...

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you. I take this opportunity to first and foremost congratulate the new President of America, Mr. Donald Trump. I wish him well in his new job. I strongly believe he is the right leader for America at this stage. I have a copy of the Agreement between...

Hon. Kang’ata Exactly, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Allow me to give my ideas and I am going to cite examples of countries which have developed by trashing these ideas. China, in 1979, was a very poor country. Deng Xiaoping assumed power and his first idea was to trash away these ideas...

Hon. Kang’ata Look here, Hon. Deputy Speaker: As a poor country, you should be aiming at what we call “full employment”. That should be what is taxing any policy maker. “Full employment” is not obtained by putting a lot of bottlenecks. These are bottlenecks you are putting for entrepreneurs. I...

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to oppose this Report and ask Members to ensure that we do not ratify the Paris Climate Change Agreement. The reasons are as follows. This Agreement will cause massive unemployment in our country. Why do I say so? When governments introduce...

Hon. Kang’ata Hon. Deputy Speaker, the scientist should answer one question. What percentage does Kenya contribute to climate change? Compare that to China or the USA. That is the question. Therefore, if you were to agree with me that we contribute zero point something to that thing called “climate change”,...

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. My point is very simple and I want to reiterate it again. What is the extent of our contribution to climate change?

Hon. Kang’ata Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I apologise. On the one in respect to the Copyright Act, 2001, I am not so certain as to whether the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons will be achieved by the proposal. I say that because when you look at the Memorandum of Objects...