David Mwalika

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Bill because it is very important. It seeks to provide for the administration structures for the management of the Equalisation Fund. Through this Bill, the Equalisation Fund Advisory Board and other committees will be formed. The Fund...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, and the Mover for giving me this opportunity to say one or two things about this event. First of all, Hon. Odinga was not an individual candidate, but a candidate for Kenya. That is one thing people should know. A win for Hon. Odinga was...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I totally oppose this amendment. I am a Member of the Committee and we met the stakeholders. Six banks cannot raise this amount of money within four years. This means banks will collapse. We will have financial shocks in this country and people will lose...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity to also say one or two things about this Bill. I am a member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning. I want to focus on only two clauses to allow others to speak. I want to focus...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. This discussion is very important because the Senate has forgotten its mandate. One of its mandates is to oversee the county governments. The functions of the county governments are well spelt out in the Constitution. The Chairperson of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also say a thing or two about this Report. At the outset, I support the Report. Let me thank the President for nominating Hon. Mbadi to be the Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury and Economic Planning. I know Hon. Mbadi...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. At the outset, I support this Report and thank the Committee for bringing it here. I also thank the National Treasury on how it has handled the repayment of the Eurobond. The situation with the Eurobond brought a lot of anxiety in the financial market....

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to also contribute to those amendments on the retirement age at 60 years and the issue of acting by civil servants. If you recall, the retirement age was moved from 55 to 60 for three reasons. One, was to put...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I really want to be brief. First of all, let me thank the Chairman, Hon. Shurie and his team for bringing this Report, which has a lot of gaps that need to be filled. However, it is a very good attempt. Before 2002,...

Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Report. From the outset, I want to thank the Committee and its Chairman for the good work they have done. It is very important if we can be looking at this CFS and I think...

We need to ask ourselves why we are not implementing that project. We need to reduce our imports of food. I thank the Government because, at least, they are doing something on the fertiliser program. But how is that fertiliser being distributed? In Lower Eastern where I come from, we...