{"count":1608389,"next":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=144417","previous":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/?format=json&page=144415","results":[{"id":1462352,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462352/?format=json","text_counter":200,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"Thank you for that useful information. I hope the House will fast-track it. Counties have been giving that money in the past. I am happy that the Senate Majority Leader has proposed legislative intervention. As Members of CPAC and Senators, we shall support it. I am happy that my Chairman, Sen. M. Kajwang’, is in the House. I did not see him accompanying Hon. John Mbadi to the National Treasury, but I"},{"id":1462353,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462353/?format=json","text_counter":201,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"know he is a fellow ‘Subanese.’ I hope after this, he will pay homage to the National Treasury Building and give his prayers and blessings. I advise and encourage us to fast-track this Bill through the Senate Majority Leader, so that we cure this illegal unlawful and constitutional expense. The fifth point that I wanted to make is on the wage bill. I agree Members raised an issue. The minimum wage bill should be 35 per cent of the budget. We need to ensure we follow the law. By the way, there is challenges in the wage bill. I wish the entire Senate was here. Most of the county assemblies are ethnic conglomerates. If you go to Kisumu, Murang'a, Mandera or any part of this country, you will find that the majority are the natives. I encourage the National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), and the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on National Cohesion, Equal Opportunity and Regional Integration in this House to follow it up to ensure that we put in place mechanisms to address ethnic diversity within our counties. We cannot be blaming the national Government, yet when we retreat to county governments, it becomes a very big challenge. Counties assemblies are still struggling with staff establishment and ethnic balancing as per Article 10 of the 2010 Constitution of Kenya 2010 on ethnic diversity. Madam Temporary Speaker, when you re-organize the Order Paper, we are supposed to do the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bills No.38 of 2024). You know I can dispense legal wisdom from this Dispatch and legally and constitutionally, what the National Assembly did was unconstitutional and unlawful. You do not amend the budget with amending the DORB but now, we are putting the cat before the horse. On this Bill that we are discussing today, there is a lot of money that is going to the counties. I would like to remind governors that the way they take it with zeal and passion the money we allocate them, they should also take accountability with the same zeal and passion. I am disappointed that instead of my Governor, hon. Sang’, purchasing drugs, he decided to purchase jembe sticks and helmets and gave them to the young people and yet, we do not have the Kazi kwa Vijana Programme in Nandi. Madam Temporary Speaker, when people went to the streets to demand accountability for our resources, that should have challenged him but we are fighting here. I know the Senate Majority Leader will tell us to adopt the popular and convenient decision of cutting down because the Finance Bill 2024/2025 collapsed but every shilling matters, especially when I see Toi Market in Nairobi has no resources. Today, my Governor was in one of the local radio stations. There was a man called Adolf Hitler who had a minister for propaganda. They also say that a lie repeated continuously might grow legs and become a truth. That is what is happening in Nandi. Madam Temporary Speaker, on Tuesday, my people, the Gen Zs went on the streets in Kapsabet town to request for accountability. That is why we want accountability in Murang’a, where you come from. We want accountability from Homa Bay also. When we demand for accountability, it is not because we do not like the fact of the person that is there. When they went to those individuals looking for audit reports, I got shocked to hear my Governor in that vernacular radio station saying that Kapsengere Dispensary is complete in Aldai Sub-County. This is far from the truth. This dispensary has stalled. They had wanted to expand land there but the project stalled."},{"id":1462354,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462354/?format=json","text_counter":202,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"I want to thank President Ruto because when he visited Nandi in 2018, he gave Kshs50 million. The Governor and the County Government were to fund more for the Chepterwai Sub-County. That has never happened. That money was given by President Ruto when he was the Deputy President. Madam Temporary Speaker, even in the Kapsengere Dispensary, the President gave us Kshs20 milllion, which has been used so far and the county has given nothing. When you go to Kobujoi Sub-County Hospital, it is stalled and the President gave us Kshs50 million. The County Government has never given this project any money. The Mother and Baby Unit in Kapsabet Referral Hospital is also stalled. Kabiyet Dairies is being funded by the World Bank and other international donors in Kabiyet, Mosop Sub County, is stalled. We must demand accountability because we struggle. At times, we are told that the Senate is a talkshop, but we must see value for money. Madam Temporary Speaker, the greatest achievement that Governor Sang’ has achieved in close to seven years is only buying jembe sticks and helmets for criminals in order to harass people in broad daylight in Kapsabet. I am disappointed with the police and I challenge the Acting Inspector of Police (IG), Masengeli, to act on those criminals. Three people were injured on that day. One of the young people, Japhet Sangere, lost a motor bike near the showground when those goons harassed him and stole from him. That was robbery with violence. Three people are nursing wounds after being attacked by the same criminals. The police watched as people walked around with jembe sticks, crude weapons and helmets harassing pregnant mothers, young people, the disabled and good business people of Kapsabet. In fact, all businesses were closed in Kapsabet because people became worried after seeing criminals and goons walking around with those weapons. However, if you go to Kapsabet Hospital today, there are no drugs. Even Panadol is not there. You go to dispensaries such as Kabiyet, Chepterwai, Kobujai, Maraba, Setek, Kapsengere or the Mosoriot Sub County hospital, there are no drugs on the shelves yet the Governor has the audacity to buy jembe sticks and helmets. Where is the EACC and the DCI on this issue? I also call upon the speakers of county assemblies. I saw the Speaker for Isiolo County trying to harass my Chairperson, Sen. M. Kajwang’. After we cooled him, we frog-marched him out of our meeting because he was behaving in a manner likely to suggest--- Madam Temporary Speaker, when we visited Isiolo County to audit them, the Speaker ran away and closed the construction site and yet the other day when we questioned him, he was daring the Chairperson of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC). That is why I am saying we should borrow a leaf from them. We are proud of Kakamega County Assembly. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale is here, and I am told that he is nursing ambitions of becoming the governor. Kakamega County Assembly is doing extremely well and it is one of the assemblies we must emulate. I challenge other county assemblies, including your County Assembly of Murang’a, to rise up to the occasion to ensure that their books are good. That is the future we want. I am cognizant of the fact that we have a new Cabinet in place and I join Sen. Ledama Olekina in saying that our work is to do oversight to ensure value for what we do here."},{"id":1462355,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462355/?format=json","text_counter":203,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Cherarkey","speaker_title":"","speaker":{"id":13217,"legal_name":"Cherarkey K Samson","slug":"cherarkey-k-samson"},"content":"Madam Temporary Speaker, I was disappointed, but I would like to remind hon. Mbadi, the Cabinet Secretary for Treasury, to be aware of Article 219 – timely disbursements to counties. We even censured the former Cabinet Secretary, Ukur Yattani, for not disbursing money. The more you delay disbursing funds under Article 219, you are firstly violating the Constitution and statutory deductions like for the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA), the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) attract penalties. I call upon the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury to be disbursing monies to counties timeously. I am also happy that county assemblies will have financial autonomy. Let us do our work now that we have a Cabinet in place. I hope the Cabinet Secretaries are aware that Article 93 defines Parliament as the Senate and the National Assembly. I know they have a tendency to think that the Senate does not do anything. I saw the Senate Majority Leader at the swearing-in in the State House. I hope he whispered to them that Parliament entails both the Senate and the National Assembly, so that when we raise issues, they must come here and answer them. With those remarks, as I do it with the speed of McOure Kasmuel and pursuant to Standing Order No.66(3), I request the deferment of division to a later day and at the convenience of the House. I thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker and I beg to reply."},{"id":1462356,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462356/?format=json","text_counter":204,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Veronica Maida","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":" Thank you. The Division in respect of that Motion is hereby deferred upon the application by the Vice Chair of that Committee."},{"id":1462357,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462357/?format=json","text_counter":205,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"(Putting of Question on the Motion deferred)"},{"id":1462358,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462358/?format=json","text_counter":206,"type":"speech","speaker_name":"Sen. Veronica Maida","speaker_title":"The Temporary Speaker","speaker":null,"content":"Next Order."},{"id":1462359,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462359/?format=json","text_counter":207,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"BILL"},{"id":1462360,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462360/?format=json","text_counter":208,"type":"scene","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"Second Reading"},{"id":1462361,"url":"http://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/1462361/?format=json","text_counter":209,"type":"heading","speaker_name":"","speaker_title":"","speaker":null,"content":"THE CONSTITUTION OF KENYA (AMENDMENT) (NO.2) BILL (SENATE BILLS NO.52 OF 2023)"}]}