HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept
{
"id": 647503,
"url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/647503/?format=api",
"text_counter": 415,
"type": "other",
"speaker_name": "",
"speaker_title": "",
"speaker": null,
"content": "Opposition. However, as life and fate would have it, we might eventually be working together in Government. How we would love that! Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the first thing that we noticed in this Bill has to do with the deterioration of collection of money that the Chairperson spoke about. That is why when we, as a Committee, sat we supported the notion of not increasing the money because we realised that the Government is walking on a tight rope. We appreciate that. However, the desperation that the KRA is going through must not create the circumstance that its boss pronounced yesterday, where he even wants to go to people’s homes and banks and so on. There is a limit to what we want to do. We should not interfere with privacy the way we want to do in order for us to collect money. Money has been collected before. It is a question of two things. One, it has to do with the confidence that we should give Kenyans that when money is collected from them, it is used for the right purposes and people will pay taxes. The second one has to do with making sure that we collect the taxes that are there. We must also engage in better utilisation of the same funds. When the President spoke in Naivasha, he said that he wants the Government to finish the projects that it has started. There is nothing worse than hearing that projects are being started and then you drive around the same areas where new projects are being started, and old projects are unfinished. I wish Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale was here because the hospital that he was talking about in Gatundu has been incomplete since Mzee Jomo Kenyatta was the President of this Republic. For President Uhuru to go and finish it was long overdue. In fact, he should have done it the first month that he became President. However, we are happy that he has completed that project. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, when you travel around the country, you will see many projects that are halfway done. If you go to Karatina as you go to Nyeri, you will notice a huge market that is only halfway finished and yet many other projects and other markets are being built elsewhere. I am happy to report that I got a message from the Cabinet Secretary (CS) concerned, that we will be relaunching the completion of the market in the next two weeks. However, there are several unfinished projects. Worse still, there are complete markets, hospitals and schools that are currently not being used. This is because for some odd reason, they have not been handed over to the users, county governments or other institutions that they have been built for. It is not enough, therefore, that we allocate moneies and not ensure that they reach the end users. The fact that money was allocated in one year as given, for example, for the laptops, we must be careful about this issue of allocation. The budget, as we read it, is not in itself a transfer of money. It is important for us to understand if money is allocated to Parliament, it does not mean that that quantity of money has been transferred to the Parliament budget or Parliament account in the bank. Money is not transferred until it is effectively done so. So, when you allocate Kshs17 billion for laptops and you do not spend it, it simply means that the money was not spent. It does not mean that money was allocated and then taken elsewhere. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I have said on the Floor of this House and I repeat, that we must start a method by which we can make use of private capital for The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate"
}