KITANY MARIANNE

Hon. Deputy Speaker, I thank you for allowing me to second the Business Laws (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.51 of 2024) . We need to appreciate that the business environment in this country has to be improved. I know it is good, but we have to improve it more. In...

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I am rising on Standing Order 95 to call upon the Mover to reply.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I wish to welcome the students who have come to observe the Proceedings of Parliament. As they have heard, this is a House of records where laws governing this country are made. It is also a place where we oversee what the Executive does. Today,...

Hon. Temporary Chairman, these particular clauses that create a council is a noble idea on sign language. It will help many of our people who are not able to use voice as we do to communicate with the public. Much of what they do is not regulated yet they require...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I do not remember Hon. Millie asking Hon. Oluoch to hold brief for her. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. Farah Maalim) : He was very clear that he is mentoring Hon. Umulkher. I agree with the mentoring part, but I do not remember Hon. Millie stating...

On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Speaker.

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I have a name. I am called Marianne Kitany, Member of Parliament for Aldai Constituency.

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. Members are usually accustomed to seeing me seated at the front. I rise to support the Finance Bill. I first wish to address the tax exemption and zero-rating of certain items, especially locally assembled mobile phones, electric buses, and lithium-ion batteries. The Bill initially proposed...

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Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I was referring to vandalism acts that occur within the sector. We all know that such incidents occur. I did not state that scrap metal dealers engage in theft. However, some may deal in vandalised materials. The introduction of the 1.5 per cent Withholding Tax...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Chairman. I support my colleague because we sit together in the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, and we have visited many of these CAIPs. For many of them, money has been appropriated and is sitting in their accounts because they cannot spend it, and...

Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the 2026/2027 Budget Estimates fully. From the outset, this is the last Budget to be fully implemented during the term of the 13th Parliament. The Budget has tried to balance all sectors of our economy, with the education sector receiving the...

Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Cooperatives on its inquiry into the illegal and irregular release of condemned sugar, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 4th June ADOPTION...

THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 3. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Vice-Chairperson, did you move the amendment? Yes, I have proposed that we delete Clause 3. The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Give a brief justification. The justification is that the definition proposed in...

THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 4 and substituting therefor the following new clause— Amendment of Section 27 of Cap. 517A.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I propose that the New Clause 3A be now read a Second Time. The justification is that … The Temporary Chairlady (Hon. Martha Wangari) : Hon. Kitany, kindly move that the Clause be read a Second Time; do not propose. Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I beg to move...

THAT, the Bill be amended by deleting Clause 2 and substituting therefor the following new Clause 2 — Amendment of section 2 of Cap. 517A.

Hon. Temporary Chairlady, I propose that Clause 1 be amended to include the date when this Act will take effect; that is, upon publication of this Act. Thank you. (Question of the amendment proposed) The Temporary Chairlady: There is no interest in this. (Question, that the words to be added...

Hon. Temporary Speaker, I second. (Question proposed) (Question put and agreed to) (The Bill was accordingly read a Third Time and passed)

Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Allow me to comment on both roads. The first one, from Chebarbar to Mosoriot, the contract as read by Hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Transport and Infrastructure, indicates that the road was to be expanded and the shoulders repaired. However, only the shoulders between...