Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 11 to 20 of 2525.

• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: We have found ourselves to be sympathetic with county governors in such instances because the residents of those areas want clean water. Once they have clean water, children will stay in school instead of roaming around looking for water and pasture. Therefore, sometimes when we have one framework legislation that cuts across, we must also ensure that there could be certain exceptions that can be made for some of those difficult situations. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Technology adoption is also not uniform across the country. I have seen that there is a transition that has been proposed of three years for all county governments to ensure that there is a technological platform for uniformity of licensing across the 47 counties. I think three years is not too bad a proposal to make because as things stand now, the telecommunication network is concentrated along the tarmac. There is the 4G, the 5G and there are some areas that are still on 2G in this Republic. You find 2G along tarmac roads. There are parts of this country, ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: We have gone to parts of Turkana, Pokot, Mandera and Samburu where they have never seen tarmac. Now that these technologies and internet connectivity are provided by entities that are out to make profits, they are not going to put a mast in the middle of nowhere. They will put a mast along the tarmac road. Therefore, if you are going to expect someone in a far-flung corner of West Pokot to entirely rely on technology that sometimes requires a 5G internet connectivity to make an application for a license, that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: person will be in a position of unfairness as compared to the person who is in Nairobi, which is flooded with technology and connectivity. As I conclude, I want to encourage our county assemblies to take very seriously their mandate when it comes to approval of budgets and revenue-raising measures in counties. There are those who think that the Senate interferes with the mandate of county assemblies. There are those who think that even the interrogations we make of financial statements and reports of the Auditor General is something that should be done by county assemblies. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: This Senate from its inception has drawn the line very clearly. When I see people going to court to ask where primary oversight ends and secondary oversight begins, I usually think that those are lazy people who have not taken time to appreciate the position the Senate has taken. Primary oversight is around the approval of appointees to run county governments. That is a pure mandate of the county assemblies that the Senate never encroaches on. The Senate only comes in when it comes to impeachment of the Governor and the Deputy Governor. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: Otherwise, the persons responsible for running our county governments are appointed or vetted by Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs). That is primary oversight. Primary oversight is in approving budgets; the County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) the ADPs, the County Fiscal Strategy Papers, the Appropriations and the Finance Bills in County Assemblies. That is a pure function of county assemblies that Senate never ever gets involved in. Once the Senate divides and allocates revenue, we leave it to the county assembly to ensure that plans that have been generated by the governors are in line with the expectations of the ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: When it comes to own-source revenue, again the decision on what to tax including taxing dogs, cats, and chicken or putting a tax if you cut down a tree, that decision is entirely in the hands of the county executive and the county assembly. The Senate never encroaches on it. view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I want to encourage county assemblies to be confident and bold because the same laws that we use here in Nairobi are the same laws that are available to them. The other day the State House Comptroller appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) and people were wondering how the State House Comptroller can come to Parliament to talk about Nairobi Metropolitan Services. The same power that the Senate has to compel the State House Comptroller to come before the Senate is the same power that county assemblies have to compel the State House Comptroller to appear before the County ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: I say this because of this uniform licensing procedure. There are those who will argue that we are trying to prescribe to county assemblies how they should go about their business when it comes to processing Finance Bills. If our county assemblies took their tasks and duties with the confidence and seriousness that is required, I do believe that some of these multiple overlapping and duplicating licenses and levies that we see in counties would be a thing of the past. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can ... view
• 26 Jul 2023 in Senate: The other issue that our county assemblies must take seriously is to ensure that they have got balanced budgets. Just last week or this week we dealt with the case of the Nairobi City County Government that plans to collect Kshs20 billion shillings but only collects Kshs10 billion. That has been the trend from the onset of devolution. We directed the Auditor General to conduct a forensic audit on own-source revenue in Nairobi. This is relevant to what we are talking about. If there is one county that has got more licenses than any other counties, it is Nairobi City ... view