Ababu Namwamba

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 651 to 660 of 1948.

• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The membership of Accountability Kenya include four Committees of this House; namely, the Public Accounts Committee, the Public Investments Committee, the Budget and Appropriations Committee and the Finance, Planning and Trade Committee. Key State agencies with accountability mandate including the Auditor-General, the Controller of Budget, the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Public Procurement Oversight Authority. Accountability Kenya also includes the PACs of all the 47 county assemblies as well as the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Kenya (ICPAK), representatives of the media and the civil society. Tomorrow, Thursday, 28th March, 2014, over 350 ... view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: This is the first initiation of its kind anywhere in the world. Accountability Kenya provides a unique opportunity to join all the dots and lock all the links in the accountability chain. Thanks to Accountability Kenya, recommendations of this House should never be in vain ever again. We now have a channel to pass on the baton to specific players. For instance, to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission for further investigations, to the DPP for prosecution and to the Controller of Budget to withhold funds for accounting officers and governors that breach fiscal regulations and accountability standards. Indeed, Accountability Kenya ... view
• 26 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Supplementary Budget that we passed recently did not sufficiently address this inadequacy. (ii) PAC will work extra hours including during recess to clear any pending backlog of accounts. The Committee has also commenced a programme of budding together accounts for delayed fiscal cycles. This is one of the ways to deal with a heavy workload which also includes special audits which right now include our inquiry into the Judiciary and IEBC, among others. We thank this House for expediting debate and approval of the duo report that we tabled here earlier this month. Finally, all accounting officers who delay to ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to thank you. But really, it was eight not three minutes. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I want to thank you for the indulgence. There is absolutely nowhere in the rules that preclude me from exhausting my balance of minutes. As at the time I was interrupted, I was saying that--- view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue I am raising is, whereas it is a practice that a Member cannot forfeit the time they have, there is absolutely nothing in the rules that can preclude me from exhausting that time, especially when at the time I was required to be here I was transacting other business of this House. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: He is not an authority on this matter. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I am on a point of order because this is a matter that touches on the procedure of the House. Actually, in the absence of a specific Standing Order on this matter, I agree that I would be the last one person to want to break the rules and traditions of this House; the traditions of this House would require that--- You note from Standing Order No.1 that on a matter that is not specific in the Standing Orders then the Speaker is granted a carte blanche – a kind of a blank cheque to make a ruling to guide ... view
• 19 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The Leader of Majority Party has this tendency of becoming too excited. Do not be too excitable. Do not be excitable if you do not have the backing of the Standing Orders. Either the Leader of Majority Party speaks from the Standing Orders, or he is just being a heckler as is his tendency. Do not be a heckler in the House. view