27 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
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27 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I appreciate the Cabinet Secretary for finding time to come and respond to questions from Members, a couple of kilometres away from the Capital. This is important to us and we appreciate that they found time for this. I have a Question for the Cabinet Secretary. Firstly, I am aware that towards the end of the last administration, for three or so years, the Government froze all mining license applications for people who were either doing exploration or for the mining activities that were going on. That has caused a bit of anxiety in ...
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir.
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, for ease of process, I request that we take all the three votes together. Therefore, as you arrange the Tellers, we do it that way.
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this chance. I join you, the Deputy Speaker, and all of our colleagues in appreciating and sending our greatest and best wishes to the County of Turkana as they host us for this year's edition of Senate Mashinani. I appreciate that the leaders have found time to welcome us into the beautiful County of Turkana, the cradle of mankind, the home of the world’s largest desert lake and so many attributes that we can list about this county. I know many of our colleagues like yours truly, this is the first time to be ...
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
I thank you.
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this chance to move this very important Bill. I beg to move that the Facilities Improvement Financing Bill (Senate Bill No.43 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. Mr. Speaker, Sir, as the Senate, we would not have chosen a better destination to move this particular Bill before the House of the Senate than in Turkana County. Like my colleagues have said, Turkana County is filled with great potential. However, thanks to many reasons of which I do not wish to indulge in this afternoon, the county continues to suffer marginalization and various ...
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
This is so that the people of Turkana County can appreciate the goodies that the Senate has brought to them. The work of the legislature is to set laws and provide the legislative framework upon which the Government policy – either national or county governments – can be dictated and directed upon. It is my most sincere hope that we will have concluded the two Bills that the Senate has published by the time we leave Turkana County on Thursday. I am talking about the Facilities Improvement Financing Bill and the Primary Health Care Bill, whose report has just been ...
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26 Sep 2023 in National Assembly:
In fact, later on, I will refer to the amendments that have been proposed by the Committee on matters nomenclature. They have paid even greater attention so that the Committee is using a language that is agreeable to the provision of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. For instance, you will come across some words that have been used because of maybe poor drafting due to the Bill being hurried. If you read through the Report, it is using words such as ‘budgeted for’. This means that once resources have been budgeted for a certain purpose, you cannot divert to ...
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