Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: rather straightforward to us here in the Senate, yet, for reasons well known to all of us, a push-pull between our colleagues in the National Assembly and us has brought us to March, actually April, because this is the last week of March, which is the last quarter of the financial year that counties are now going to receive funds that otherwise they should have received as early as July 1st, 2024. This is not what our Constitution intended when we drafted the Ornaments of Devolution. It was envisioned that funds would be released in a timely manner, that we ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: There is one delay after another. Before you know it, we are on the 26th or 27th of March, like today, without having considered this particular Bill. Therefore, I want to request that we expedite now that there seems to be some headway. I want to appreciate the diligence of the Finance and Budget Committee, which has quickly considered this Bill. The only part where you have failed, Sen. Onyonka, Sen. Boni, and the rest of the team, is that because you knew you were coming here today and this was an extremely important business, perhaps you would have furnished ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: It also includes funds, or conditional allocations, to the county aggregation and industrial park programme as set out in column C. I still have a lot of questions about this programme. Members of the Finance and Budget Committee, perhaps, later in the year, once you are done with this budget-making cycle, it will be important that you follow through with your specific counties on what programmes your governors are laying out to ensure that these County Aggregation and Industrial Parks (CAIPs) are not white elephant programmes. This is a partnership of the Council of Governors in support of the national ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: On conditional allocation for Community Health Promoters (CHPs), this a big problem because there are many counties where CHPs continue to wait on this. The unfortunate bit is that you will find that CHPs have received their matching funds from the national Government, but counties are blamed that they have not paid CHPs. However, what would they have used to pay with? Here are the funds now. Today, once we pass the Conditional Allocation Bill, is when it will become possible for our counties to pay them. view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: We must make a decision, and the Committee on Finance and Budget must assist us to do so, on whether programmes such as this one of CAIPS and CHPs, that are in all the 47 counties, if there is need to budget these funds separate from Division of Revenue, especially having learnt from experience of what this additional allocation business has taught us this current financial year. Remember the history that I painted earlier on how we found ourselves doing this particular Bill. We just wanted to ensure that there is equity in programmes. The Senate needed to have visibility ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: much is going to the counties, then there is no business of what we presently have, where CHPs are saying, “We have received the share from the national Government, but county governments are not paying.” We have to make a better decision. view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: There are also salary arrears for health workers in the county governments; no wonder they are always outside this Senate every other week. I have taken great concern. There is something that I am doing about it, as a leader and somebody passionate about devolution. We must be embarrassed. Apart from just the usual decisions that we make, many times, I see when people come to demonstrate here, Senators join them, and we say, “Oh, yeah, we are going to fight for your rights,” and that is the end of business. We must be a bit serious as leaders. You ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: We must begin to move. If this money must be wasted and unfortunately, I have to say this, then I would rather it be wasted by ordinary citizens as opposed to allocating funds to people who will only be obsessed with building sheds and structures and moving out of that particular place without any direct benefit to the ordinary citizens. On these special funds, we must ask for a project implementation report, how they were eventually used and what has been their success. The unfortunate bit is that they have very funny long names. So, to keep track is not ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Finally, the Kenya Devolution Support Programme (KDSP) is set out in Column (j). There is a listing of how much is going to every county. Then there are other things about the Cabinet Secretary publishing, by the 15th day of each subsequent month, a monthly report on actual transfers of disbursed additional allocations to county governments. This one we did as well in the DORA. Then last, and perhaps the last thing that I would like to say, is that the county treasury shall include the consolidated quarterly and annual reports that include the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, which ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the listing is there of how much is going to each county, and this is as the Bill came. I want to believe that our colleagues from the Committee on Finance and Budget will guide us on what additional amendments they are proposing to the House. Even without seeing the amendments, I already support their position, because I am aware of some of the proposals that have been made there. With those very many remarks, I request the Whip of the Majority side, who is a Member of the Finance and Budget Committee, to second and help ... view