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Division on the Finance Bill 2023 that is currently in second reading. #BungeLiveNA 
Votes are as follows:
1. Hon Samuel Chepkonga - YES
2. Hon. Samuel Atandi - NO
3. Hon. John Walter Owino (ABSENT)
4. Hon. Irene Njoki - YES
5. Hon. Florence Jematia - YES
6. Hon. Joshua Kandie - YES
7. Hon. Joseph Kipkoros - YES
8. Hon. Charles Kamuren - YES… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
1. Hon Samuel Chepkonga - YES
2. Hon. Samuel Atandi - NO
3. Hon. John Walter Owino (ABSENT)
4. Hon. Irene Njoki - YES
5. Hon. Florence Jematia - YES
6. Hon. Joshua Kandie - YES
7. Hon. Joseph Kipkoros - YES
8. Hon. Charles Kamuren - YES… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
9. Hon. Nelson Koech - YES
10. Hon. Innocent Obiri - ABSENT
11. Hon. Barongo Obadiah - NO
12. Hon. Alfah Miruka - YES
13. Hon. Benjamin Langat - YES
14. Hon. Mrembo Irene Njoki - YES
15. Hon. Linet Chepkorir - YES
16. Hon. Richard Cheruiyot - YES
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10. Hon. Innocent Obiri - ABSENT
11. Hon. Barongo Obadiah - NO
12. Hon. Alfah Miruka - YES
13. Hon. Benjamin Langat - YES
14. Hon. Mrembo Irene Njoki - YES
15. Hon. Linet Chepkorir - YES
16. Hon. Richard Cheruiyot - YES
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I am actually surprised that after they've won the election, the "ground" does not seem to matter and those people don't seem to matter. I just want to warn them that if you don't listen to the ground right now, kitawaramba when the time actually comes. - @Lesuuda #BungeLiveNA
I want to tell the same hustlers who have been forgotten that once the 16% fuel levy is increased, they will really feel the pinch because the cost of living will actually go up and even the cost of manufacturing will go up. - @Lesuuda #BungeLiveNA
We're saying we're creating jobs but if the manufacturers and the investors will run away from this country, how will we be creating employment. - @Lesuuda #BungeLiveNA
For seven years we've been kicking the can of taxation down the road hoping that the next dispensation shall solve the problems we're causing. - @KiarieJohn #BungeLiveNA
This Finance Bill that has been adjudicated in the court of public opinion has been laden with a lot of misinformation. People have been going to tv stations, funerals and meetings in their constituencies prosecuting matters that are not even in the Finance Bill. - @KiarieJohn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The first thing I'd like to ask is that we all acquaint ourselves with the content that is within the Finance Bill. As we talk, about one or two taxes that are going to be raised, we should also be talking about the 21 odd taxes that are due for reduction. - @KiarieJohn… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
We didn't take an oath to lie, we took an oath to defend the Constitution. The first thing I looked at when I read the report of the committee was to look at the submissions. I am aware of KUPPET, KNUT, from other people including farmers in my constituency. They're not attached.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The people of Kenya have spoken in public forums and said this Finance Bill is oppressive. As a Parliament we're left with one thing to do...to relook at it and say this one wamekataa, can we give them what they want. - Hon. Nabii Nabwera #BungeLiveNA
I want to help my colleagues, is it true that there are no other ways of raise the money? The answer is no. I serve in the Public Accounts Committee and if we were just to close the taps of pilferage, we raise Ksh 600 billion...the money we're looking for. - Hon. Nabii Nabwera… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
For the welfare of the society and the just government of the people, I rise to oppose. - @hon_wamuchomba #BungeLiveNA
For the welfare of the people of Kenya that qualifies them to eat well, eat three meals a day...that is the way to make the welfare of our people better. - @hon_wamuchomba #BungeLiveNA
For the welfare of the society and the just government of our people, it is our business as the representatives of this House to make sure that our people live happily, improve their welfare and make them feel they're sovereign according to the Constitution. - @hon_wamuchomba
We need to look at the basics. Kenyans do not have food, we're telling them how to house them. While defending this, the other side has spent a lot of time trying to tell us that this is an opportunity to create jobs for the youth. - @CGisairo #BungeLiveNA
Can you tell us exactly what this levy is? Is it a job creation levy or a housing levy? We've changed it from a contribution to a levy, moved it from a provision where after 7 years, the contributors had a way out or to stay in clause - @CGisairo #BungeLiveNA
Now it's a levy which makes it a tax generally. That side as they sit there, they're at pains. They're trying to convince Kenyans the unconvincable. They're telling us that it's us who are trying to explain to the masses, the masses are not illiterate. - @CGisairo #BungeLiveNA
That 16% fuel levy is the poison chalice that is in this #FinanceBill2023, Mr Speaker. Once we implement the 16% on fuel levy, everything else we go up in this country. Let us not hide ourselves or close our eyes to reality. - @JunetMohamed #BungeLiveNA
Let us not accept. I'm told the proposal might be from IMF, from where...let us not care. This House must stand together and must stand with the people of Kenya because we must make life bearable for them. That is our work, that is why they elected us. -@JunetMohamed #BungeLiveNA
Can I tell the Majority Leader that the housing levy that he has alluded to in the Azimio Manifesto is completely different from what is in this Bill. - @JunetMohamed #BungeLiveNA
This is one of the Finance Bills that have been vilified more than any other Bill in the history of our legislative processes in this House. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
But the vilification has been informed by misinformation, a lot of propaganda, a lot of insinuations and disinformation of things that are not even in the Bill. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
The sad thing is that even as we sit here today there are members who have not even interacted with either the Bill or even the committee's report. -@KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
It is stupid, in fact I don't know how I can describe to beat a man for doing what yourself proposed. The other side proposed this housing levy, now it's being implemented. - @David_Ouma #BungeLiveNA
The issue with the other side is not that they don't like housing, the issue they have is that someone else implementing it. If they were the ones implementing this today, they would be asking us to support it. - @David_Ouma #BungeLiveNA
I want to just request all of us, to give this housing levy a chance. And warn that after we approve this housing levy, this Parliament should ensure that anybody who misappropriates money for housing should go to jail. - @David_Ouma #BungeLiveNA
On the issue of housing levy, let me put it on record that this is one of those areas where the public collective is more important that the individual collective. - @CaroliOmondi #BungeLiveNA
There are many areas where generally the public have to pull together to realise what is called the public good such as in medical insurance and the housing scheme. - @CaroliOmondi #BungeLiveNA
The housing scheme is a very good idea that I would like to support. I would like to put in on record that it has been part of our agenda as ODM for a very long time from 2007. I'd like to make it clear that there may be disagreements on this issue but for the general public… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Coast region where I come from is known for cement manufacturing. This cement industry has for a long time stifled because of imported cement. - Hon. Owen Baya #BungeLiveNA
A lot of the Chinese have built these roads through imported cement and yet this country has the capacity to produce cement, employ many people and use the local resources to create wealth for this country. - Hon. Owen Baya #BungeLiveNA
Today I'm happy because this #FinanceBill2023 imposes a heavy tax on imported cement, giving an opportunity to the cement industry in this country to develop. - Hon. Owen Baya #BungeLiveNA
On the affordable housing...I want to highlight a few issues that have been brought by my colleagues. Some have cited insensitivity to Kenyans. Is creating jobs being insensitive to Kenyans? - Hon. John Mutunga #BungeLiveNA
Is employing the six million or so youth who are looking for jobs for four or five years being insensitive to Kenyans? Is spreading the little that we have to all others being insensitive to Kenyans? - Hon. John Mutunga #BungeLiveNA
Many have also cited that there are other means and they're not coming clean on which means. Which means are we referring to? More debt? More burdening, selling out this country to foreigners or auctioning our institutions and our investments. - Hon. John Mutunga #BungeLiveNA
Petition regarding punitive charges levied by the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA).
My office has received a petition from Hon. Francis Ngunga, the MCA for Mua Ward in Machakos calling for consolidation of licenses issued by KENHA as well comprehensive review of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
My office has received a petition from Hon. Francis Ngunga, the MCA for Mua Ward in Machakos calling for consolidation of licenses issued by KENHA as well comprehensive review of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The petitioner is aggrieved by KENHA's issuance of exemption permits and licenses for the transport of abnormal loads that include road construction equipment as well as other over dimensional or heavy cargo. - @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA
He avers that KENHA unfairly institutes double charges that are punitive and reggresive with regard to the said licenses. - @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA
Today, if we were given this Bill and none of us were a member of this House, I can assure you none of us could have passed this Bill. - @FatumaJehowMP #BungeLiveNA
I'd like to ask the chair of the committee, have you given us the timeline of this proposed affordable housing? What is the budget? How many Kenyans are going to occupy these 50,000 houses out of the 50 million Kenyans we have. - @FatumaJehowMP #BungeLiveNA
Our police officers are dying out of depression because of the loans they're paying. We cannot add for them. - @FatumaJehowMP #BungeLiveNA
90% of Kenyans have rejected this Bill and the majority of all those who have submitted their memos have also rejected this Bill. - @OAmollo #BungeLiveNA
Excessive and generalized over taxation of Kenyans will only further burden Kenyans who are already suffering. The cost of living is so high and therefore it's a lie to say that you want this budget in order to alleviate the suffering of Kenyans. - @OAmollo #BungeLiveNA
I wish to submit that there only three answers to the problems we have right now: austerity measures, resection of corruption and rationalization of government. - @OAmollo #BungeLiveNA
I've been here long enough now and I can tell you, this is the first time we've come across a Bill proposed by the regime in power... a Bill that is totally insensitive to the plight of people. - @OpiyoWandayi #BungeLiveNA
How deceitful can we be? How can you go around the country promising Kenyans heaven and then six/seven months down the road, you come up with a Bill that essentially seeks to choke them. - @OpiyoWandayi #BungeLiveNA
How can it be possible that a government can forget the very people it's supposed to protect and turn around to actually kill them, literally. - @OpiyoWandayi #BungeLiveNA
The committee has reported that they went round and the people of Kenya suggested that they bring the housing levy to 1.5%. They're not being sincere. Unless they were doing this out of Kenya. Kenyans are saying zero! They do not want it, they're not interested. They're not aware… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
And I'm questioning this. If you're dishonest even after speaking to wananchi, where is your honesty? Chair, you said that people told you that they want 1.5%, right now I'm receiving calls and smses and they're telling me to speak for them. They're not aware of that 1.5%. - Hon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
You never visited Migori, I believe you didn't visit anywhere other your small offices. You sit there, take coffee and make decisions for Kenya. - Hon. Zainab Mohamed #BungeLiveNA
Nikiangalia hii Bill na hili Bunge lina wabunge wengi zaidi ya mia tatu. Na asilimia kubwa ya wabunge ni wale ambao wako nje, na hawa wabunge wakifika katika majukwaa wanaenda kuchochea wanachi pasi na kuwaambia ukweli. - @MohaJichoPevu #BungeLiveNA
Kuna mbunge wetu ambaye pia ameenda kuchochea wananchi lakini katika bunge hili hayuko hapa kujadili haya masuala ya fedha ili afanye Wakenya kuelewa zaidi. - @MohaJichoPevu #BungeLiveNA
Hili taifa limekuwa la omba omba tangu Kenya kupata uhuru. Kenya imekuwa ikiongozwa na masuala ya kukopa. - @MohaJichoPevu #BungeLiveNA
For me, I think this Bill is something we must reject in its totality. The economic situation in this country is very dire, Kenyans are suffering. - @MbuiRobert #BungeLiveNA
1000 shillings a few months ago could maybe even fill a paper bag, today with 1000 shillings you can't even buy 2 kilos of sugar, 2 kilos of unga,2 kilos of cooking. It's already finished. I mean it's a very bad situation. - @MbuiRobert #BungeLiveNA
Now this Bill, when we heard that there's going to be some proposed amendments, we thought that it would deal with those things that are affecting the cost of living. - @MbuiRobert #BungeLiveNA
Clause 76 on the deductions of the National Housing Fund, another very contentious issue. We listened to the views of Kenyans and they told us it's a good thing to make houses affordable...@KuriaKimaniMP #BungeLiveNA
...it's a good thing that person who pays rent in any part of the country, has an alternative to pay the equivalent of the rent but get to own that house at the end of that particular period. - @KuriaKimaniMP #BungeLiveNA
Access to mortgages still remains a privilege to high end people. Every stakeholder we met agrees that yes it's going to lead to job creation but they were worried about the how. - @KuriaKimaniMP #BungeLiveNA
The committee of finance and planning carried out the most extensive public participation in the history of Parliament. Our members of the secretariat sat hours reviewing the over 1500 memoranda sent to us by email, taking care to respond individually to each of those emails with… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
This comes at a time when we also yesterday evening we did the estimates and appropriations. It's very interesting to note that the budget and appropriations committee when they were doing the public participation, the Kenyans who appeared before them all came with smiling faces.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Hon. members, we are now going to Order no. 12, the Finance Bill, 2023. This is a Bill like any other, you know in the budget cycle, there are always two critical Bills, the Finance Bill and thereafter the Appropriations Bill. ~ Speaker, @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA.
We are going to debate this Bill the whole of this morning and the whole of this afternoon and depending on how the debate goes, it will spill over to tomorrow's session. ~ Speaker, @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA.
In debating this Bill as per our Standing Orders, the mover will have 45 minutes, each member who will contribute will be entitled to 10 minutes unless the House wishes to review that to allow more members to contribute. ~ Speaker, @HonWetangula #BungeLiveNA.
It is time that this House took its work seriously because we pride ourselves as a budget making house but we continuously allow the National Treasury to abuse our mandate by allocating money under Article 223 without being verified. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
Last week the CS Education was right here. You remember me putting it to the CS that there are indeed cartels that have taken over the running of the State Department for University Education. - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
If you look at the documents that were tabled by the CS, Mt Kenya University is being allocated in the last FY, a figure of Ksh 731 million when Karatina University is down on its knees. Egerton University is being closed down! - @KIMANIICHUNGWAH #BungeLiveNA
We all agree that our public universities are struggling due to underfunding which also affects their ability to expand and rehabilitate the existing infrastructure. This has in turn compromised the quality of education which is being offered at our public universities. - Hon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The Ksh 600 million though not adequate will go a long way in supporting the selected key universities: Moi University, Egerton University, University of Nairobi, Chuka University, Masinde Muliro, Maasai Mara and Kibabii University and Tom Mboya University which have serious… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
The allocation to private universities in the last five years to support government students admitted there has been surrounded by grey areas which as a House we should not allow at all. - Hon. Jack Wamboka #BungeLiveNA
