Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: cost Kshs150 million each. Even if you were to pay rent for the next 50 years, you cannot spent Kshs150 million. You can get a decent house where a county speaker can live and there is room to receive even other guests. Therefore, the circular was not thought-out. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: There is also the issue of county government headquarters. The Committee has not only told the SRC that they did not do their work properly but we have also gone ahead to give proposals which we think can be justified before the people that we represent. I can face the people of Kericho and explain to them the reasoning behind the figures that are being proposed. We proposed that a county governor’s residence should not go beyond Kshs45 million, a deputy governor’s should cost Kshs35 million maximum and a county assembly speaker’s home is put at Kshs35 million maximum. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: The problem is that our county residents do not separate between the office from the office holder. Therefore, when people hear about Kshs45 million to be used for construction of the governor’s house, they ask what he has done to deserve a home that is worth Kshs45 million. A county governor’s residence is the seat of power of a particular county. Therefore, it is symbolic and the amount we have proposed is not on the higher side. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: There is also the issue of capping the county headquarters at Kshs500 million. In my opinion, this is well thought-out. We are aware that there are counties that did not have strong municipalities where municipality offices were not good enough to be used as county government headquarters. The figure of Kshs500 million is enough for them to put up decent structures that people are proud of. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: We also need to teach our citizens not to be myopic. Sometimes, because a leader may not like the county speaker, they tell people that they are being misled when an assembly worth a certain amount of money is put up. As leaders, we also owe it to the people that vote for us to come to this House. We should rise above petty parochial politics of just looking at figures. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: If a county was to have a state visit by the Head of State or visitors from other county governments, they should be received at the county headquarters where they can get a brief of all the goings-on in that particular county. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, finally, the Committee recommended to the county governments that they should construct county assembly chambers that are within certain limits. We have visited certain county assemblies as Members of this House and you will sympathise with our Members of County Assemblies (MCAs). If you go to some counties, the chambers do not even inspire the thoughts of leaders because they are squeezed in particular places. They also do not have services like what we have here and good microphones for them to articulate and share the issues of the people that they represent. They also do not ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: We have gone ahead and done a breakdown as a committee on what should be the expected figure of each county assembly depending on the number of wards. We proposed that county assemblies’ chambers and offices should be constructed so that MCAs can do their work expeditiously. These are modern parliaments. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: We do not know whether it is possible for the designs to be synchronized but they should. If I am in Mandera, Kakamega, Mombasa, or Lodwar, the minute I spot a particular building, because of the design and architecture, I should tell that it is a county assembly chamber because it is neat and beautiful. Nothing significant about it should be identified. That is what progressive societies do. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in Senate: We have visited many other countries that have devolution systems of government. The minute you spot a certain design of building, you know that it is the seat of power for that particular county, municipality or state. Therefore, this recommendation by the Committee is well thought-out. Madam Temporary Speaker, we are told that some counties which had awarded contracts that were above the recommended figure should consider renegotiating with a view to adjusting the contract sum. We have two or three counties that had awarded contracts worth almost Kshs800 million to Kshs1 billion, to put up very huge offices that ... view