Senator Aaron Kipkirui Cheruiyot

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: afford to go to the next election with this mess as has always been. Many of our county assemblies, and 21 of them, do not have PWDs, but there is an equal number also that do not have youth representation. There is an equal number also that do not have representation of the marginalized groups. That was not our constitutional design. I believe that it will be unfair of us as a House to have come back for the third time, or for the first time like Sen. Crystal. People like Moses Kajwang’ cannot say anything about this particular law ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for this opportunity. I beg to move that the County Public Finance Laws (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bills No.39 of 2023) be now read a Second Time. This should be declared the day of the county assemblies because we have dealt with Bills that are extremely important to them. It is extremely egregious that it has taken the Senate this long to consider the pieces of legislation that we are speaking about this afternoon. We have the one that has just been concluded by Sen. Crystal Asige on the constitutionality of the composition of our county ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: counsels for county assemblies stand on the dock there and counsels for county governors take the floor are financial management of our resources at the county level. One of the ways in which county assemblies are weakened is by the very basic fact that for them to even just get their salaries, something that is constitutionally and statutory guaranteed. Most time, our MCAs have to sing to the tunes of the executives. It is unfortunate. In fact, as a Senate, we owe them an apology for having taken long to free them from that kind of slavery. We are completely ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I must say that is an extortion racket and it must be broken. She has to find the courage and the conviction that is needed of every constitutional officeholder to know that the Constitution never anticipated a scenario where, a public officer will create bottlenecks for constitutional fruits such as devolution. What is so difficult in having this office decentralised, the same way we are proposing here? The reason why I speak to this issue is that despite the fact that in every county, there is an officer representing her office, those officers just do the clerical ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: operations of her office so that CECMs do not have to physically travel to Nairobi and stay in her office for two or three weeks trying to get access to funding. That is not what this Constitution expects of that office. Madam Temporary Speaker, each financial year, a county government entity holding appropriated money that was withdrawn from the county exchequer account or the County Assembly Service Fund, but has not spent it, shall repay the unspent money to the county exchequer account or the County Assembly Service Fund and prepare. That is the usual basic management of what happens ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am even concluding because my seconder is here, though I can see the time. view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we can go all the way to 6.45 p.m. I was concluding, I was reading the last remark. The clerk of a county assembly may in writing, authorize a member of staff of the county assembly to incur expenditure for the efficient management of the county assembly. That is basically what our clerk here does. There are various authorized officers of the various funds of this institution where you can incur expenditure. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Finally, on 109(e), the county treasury shall at the beginning of every month and in any event, not later than the 15th of the month from commencement of the month, disburse monies to that Fund for the expenditure of the following month. Demanding it by way of constitution and by way of statute, so that nobody is controlled from other avenues. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to move and urge my colleagues to support this legislation so that we can dispense of it. view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to conclude by saying that it is the only fair thing that we can do to our county assemblies. By the time we meet at the next Legislative Summit - I do not know why we have not reported any - we will have something positive to report as having made a significant contribution in making our county assemblies more efficient and perform their constitutionally granted duties in a more responsible manner. With those remarks, Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move and request the Senator for Nairobi City County, Sen. Edwin Sifuna, to ... view
• 29 Oct 2024 in Senate: It is Clause 119(a). view