Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Going back to my point, having listened through the deliberations and discussions of various Government organs from the Controller of Budget to the CRA, presentations from County Assemblies Forum (CAF) and various members of the county assemblies on what they thought about this Bill, it left many of us somewhat confused because the arguments both for and against the Bill make a lot of sense. We listened keenly with an open mind, just wanting to understand the concerns that people raise. As a Committee we were more inclined towards how we can enrich the Bill in terms of improvements and ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the history of this Bill is well known to all of us. We know what was its first intension and what has been achieved this far. There is a good reason as to why we went this route and had deliberations about having a County Ward Equitable Development Bill, 2018. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: I agree with colleague Senators that have spoken before me that for one reason or the other, devolution, while it is still in its formative years, continues to experience various forms of challenges. If you travel across the country you will realise that the initial challenge that we had as a country when Kenya was just one unitary state without devolved units, was that certain parts of the country would develop faster than others; either because of the leaders and the people that have got the means of control, having come from certain regions or intentionally to frustrate certain regions ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The people who do not agree with this thought hold the view that we are becoming too descriptive in our legislation to a point that we are almost tying the hand of the Governor and turning him into a robot sort of such that they are only presented with a plate of oranges and told that you can only drop one here and the other there and that kind of a thing. The argument is that the people that are charged with the responsibility of managing the resources at the county government should be given enough room for manoeuvre in ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: “In determining the criteria for allocation under subsection (2)(b), the county executive committee shall ensure that the allocation— (a) is not less than fifteen percent of the county government’s allocation for development expenditure as provided under section 107(2)(b) of the Public Finance Management Act; and (b) is complimentary to any other development efforts by the county government or any other agency.” I think this is a good figure to start with. When you do a piece of legislation, the obvious thing that you must ask yourself is the mischief that can come out of it. The obvious mischief that could ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: We understand how politicians process their thoughts. Since they made campaign promises to the people that voted for them, they must take something tangible to the people. The argument is always that they should give something that is commensurate to other parts of the county. On many occasions, MCAs of my county struggled to pass an Equalisation Bill but they were not able to do that. With this kind of legislation, it will be possible to do that. This Bill needs a bit of polishing. I know we will do that later in the Committee of the Whole, when we ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Sometimes people erroneously argue about the quality and breed of MCAs that we had. I do not know about other counties but based on my experience, because I was there during the previous Parliament, in every elections cycle, we keep on getting better MCAs in terms of even their capacity to process things and their understanding of how devolution should work. Therefore, it is my desired view that it will be the same way the Executive submits its appropriations before Members of the National Assembly and leave to them to made determination on what to fund and what not to ... view