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"content": " Sen. Kinyua, proceed. Bear in mind you have three minutes only."
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"content": "Asante sana Bw. Spika kwa kunipa fursa hii. Nachukua fursa hii kumpongeza Seneta wa Bungoma kwa Taarifa aliyoleta kuhusu madeni. Limekuwa donda sugu kwa sababu tumeliongea si mara moja. Hili jambo la wanakandarasi kupewa kazi na hatimaye kutolipwa inaleta sintofahamu. Ni vizuri ijulikane kwamba wakati kazi inapeanwa, inasemekana pesa ziko katika bajeti. Kwa hivyo, mtu kutolipwa pesa zake inaleta mtafaruku kwa sababu unakuta mtu alikopa pesa kwa benki halafu anakuja kupigwa mnada na mali yake kuchukuliwa. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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"content": "Sen. Osotsi amesema vizuri kwamba unapata wengine wanaanguka na kufariki kwa sababu ya mshtuko wa roho, kwa kujitolea. Katiba yetu ya Kenya inasema kiwango fulani cha kazi kipewe watu fulani. Unapata wengine ni vilema na vijana ambao hawana zile pesa na wamekopa, halafu mali yao ile kidogo waliokuwa nayo inauzwa. Kama vile Seneta wa Bungoma alivyosema, ukitembelea sehemu hiyo, utapata ule Uga wa Masinde Muliro uliotengenezwa na mwanakandarasi anayejulikana kama Ruwao. Ametumia zaidi ya Kshs150 milioni na gatuzi lenyewe halijaweza kumlipa kitu chochote. Hili ni jambo ambalo si la kawaida na limekuwa mazoea. Hapa Seneti tunaongea na hakuna lolote linalofanyika. Tunapaswa tusiliongelelee tu, bali tuchukulie watu kadhaa hatua ndio iwe funzo. Katika Seneti tunagawa pesa kuenda kwa gatuzi zetu na hakuna jambo linalotendeka kwa sababu ya madeni. Sio Kaunti ya Bungoma pekee yake, ukitembea Kaunti ya Laikipia, mambo ni yale yale. Bw. Spika, kuhusu Taarifa iliyoletwa na Seneta wa Nairobi, watu wamekuwa chonjo na ngangari. Niliona wananchi wakimtimua Gavana wa Nairobi kwa sababu alienda kuwaambia pole na hakufika kwa wakati uliofaa. Gari la wazima moto ndilo lilipaswa kutangulia kuzima ule moto. Niliwasikia Wakenya wakisema ya kwamba gari halikuweza kufika."
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
"speaker_title": "The Speaker",
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"content": " Proceed, Sen. Sifuna."
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am addressing this House on the 7th August, 2024, and when we talk about pending bills. Let us not forget the longest and biggest pending bills is to the people who lost their lives and were injured during the bomb attack. I know that there is a Committee of this House that had taken upon itself to resolve that issue once and for all. We will continue to remind them that that matter is still pending. Secondly, the reason I was drawn to Sen. Wafula's Statement is because I heard the Governor of Bungoma, who is a former Senate Speaker, denigrating this House and saying that we go out there pretending that we are the ones who push money to counties and yet, we are not the only ones. He went as far as telling us that if indeed we are the ones who cause counties to receive money, let us bang the table, so that that money goes back to prove our power. I was deeply embarrassed for somebody of the stature of Gov. Ken Lusaka to utter such words. Thirdly, as my sister, Sen. Nyamu has alluded, there was a fire incident. I must say that at first, I was almost not recognizing her because of her new golden crown. I do not remember ever seeing her looking like this, but iko sawa. One of the problems we saw at Toi Market is because we have a lot of stalled projects in that area. As late as five months ago, I was at the Woodley Stadium. At that particular time, the contractor had left the site and we were being told that the contractor was going to resume work very soon. Five months down the line, nothing is happening at Joseph Kang’ethe grounds. It is part of the reason for the anger that you saw when the Governor went to visit Toi Market after the fire. You saw the anger that was exhibited and the manner in which he was treated. It is not something that we want to encourage, but there is a great frustration that projects on the ground are not moving. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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"legal_name": "Sifuna Edwin Watenya",
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"content": "We have passed Motions here, as Sen. Osotsi told you, that we needed every pending bill below Kshs1 billion to be paid by the end of the last financial year. We needed to see county governments filing payment plans with the Controller of Budget; those plans should also be filed with us. As far as I am concerned, I have not seen any county that has actually filed or complied with that Motion. So, it becomes very difficult for us to explain to the people why this is happening. I am happy that now I have someone that I can directly access at the National Treasury to explain to me if there are going to be any delays in the disbursement of money to counties. As opposed to the previous occupant of that office, this is somebody who I know where he lives both here in Nairobi and I have been to his home. I can walk there and ask questions. We want to see change in that office. We just do not want people to be given positions that they are not ready to execute the mandate of those offices. We want to see the counties complying with the Motions that have been passed by this House. We need the projects on the ground to be financed and timely disbursement of money from the National Treasury, so that we can explain to the public where these problems are because we cannot be a House of lamentations. Honestly, we had proposed very radical proposals here. Let us stop giving counties money if they are not going to pay contractors. We can pay those contractors from source- --"
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"speaker_name": "Hon. Kingi",
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"content": " Proceed, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale."
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"legal_name": "Bonny Khalwale",
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I would like to congratulate the young Senator of Bungoma for raising the issue of pending bills. As Sen. Sifuna has said, it is so unfortunate that our former Speaker could hold this House in contempt. I want to appeal to the Governor of Bungoma County, Hon. Lusaka, not to provoke me. He owes us because he has spent Kshs25 million planting grass on a stretch of 600 meters, and he is saying it cost him Kshs25 million. If you want to question the integrity of an institution like the Senate, you should start with demonstrating integrity in your own office. As Sen. Sifuna would say, he who seeks for justice should come with clean hands. Finally, I want to comment on the issue of the Toi Market. It is concerning that we are picking information that Kshs100 million in the last budget had been allocated for the improvement of that market. We want to see how much of that money had been expended, so as to discount the possibility that this could have been a deliberate action of destroying evidence should this House have wanted to find out how that Kshs100 million had been expended. We want to call upon the Planning Department in the City of Nairobi to help the Governor to plan properly, put strategic positions for fire stations, so that they can access incidents faster and to create proper routes; proper roads for ambulances and fire trucks into our low-income residential areas because we cannot wish them away. We will always have these low-income residential areas and marketplaces. They should be accessed properly by ambulances and firefighters. Thank you. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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"speaker_name": "Sen. Okenyuri",
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"content": "Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity. I want to support the Statement by Sen. Beth Syengo on disbursement of funds to technical vocational training institutions. The TVET education is very critical in this country. We are basing on equipping young people with technical skills, so they are able to do whatever initiatives they do on their own. Allow me also to indicate that on that same line of education, we can keep following up on why money is delaying going to these institutions, but at the same time, you also need to demand for an audit on how some of that money is being used. For example, regarding the Elimu Scholarship that is being given by the Ministry of Education, taxpayers need value for their money. I saw an audit by the Auditor General, Nancy Gathungu, indicating so many failures out of the students who are actually beneficiaries of this scholarship. I do not want to say that students who are performing badly do not qualify for those scholarships, but at least taxpayers who are contributing largely to this need to see the value by these scholarships having an academic performance report attached to them, so that other needy students who are doing very well do not miss out. In as much as we want money to go down there, we need an audit, a report of how beneficiaries are performing and who are these beneficiaries. Look at even the international scholarships. We want to know which students have benefited, so that they come back to this country and contribute to growing this nation. I thank you."
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"content": "Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to comment on the Statement that has been sought by the Senator of Trans Nzoia, Sen. Chesang’, on the anomalies in the payroll for the County Executive for Trans Nzoia County Government. Looking at the numbers, I actually do not know why this was sought from the Committee on Finance and Budget because this is a matter that we in the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) are seized of and we look at every day and every time. This is a matter that every time there is an audit in counties, it is a matter that is flagged out. I know Sen. Sifuna will support me that every time this matter comes up, governors will always give an excuse that the reason they do not use the Integrated Personal and Payroll Database (IPPD) is because they have casual workers. They have been given a template on how to treat casual workers in all the counties. The National Treasury gave a template such that casual workers are treated and their dues are also processed through this particular system, so that nobody is able to introduce ghost workers or people who are not members of a certain county staff establishment. Just the other day, we were seized of a matter where two people were introduced into the payroll. They were paid for six months and yet, they were not employees of the Nyamira County Government. We must also look into the issue raised by the Senator for Trans Nzoia. I am speaking for Nyandarua. County executives make requisitions for allowances for their staff. However, once that money hits County Revenue Fund (CRF) accounts, they void those transactions and use the money for other unintended purposes. It is a sad state of affairs that some members of staff of some county establishments like ward administrators in Nyandarua have only gotten allowances for one month for the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate."
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