Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1261 to 1270 of 1750.

• 20 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
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I was saying, this is one report that is important for this House. We have always complained that our counties may not be as sustainable as we would have liked them to be. If our mandate under Article 96 of the Constitution is to protect county governments, what better place to start than to check the health of the counties and their economic status that is provided by the County Gross Product Report? view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: We have talked about pending bills, stalled projects and delayed disbursements where our counties cannot even operate for two weeks if the money does not come from the national Government. That is not how a government operates. It has sustainability and can operate whether or not another disburses funds to it. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I thank my colleague from Mandera County for saving me from that as well. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Zani is on to something and maybe we are not giving enough attention to some of these long-term developmental and existential issues. We are worried that sometimes counties are being looked at as unsustainable units. Therefore, if we look at this report and see the health of our counties and where the gaps are in terms of the financial sustainability, programmatic and service sustainability and other governance issues, it is going to form a very good basis on which we can exercise our mandate of oversight, representation and legislation. This is because we will then be able to ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, again, what I like about this is the fact that we are also interrogating the Equalisation Fund. The Fund is supposed to have equalised some of the gaps where the marginalised counties would then get extra resources to catch up with the rest of the country. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: I know I come from a county that qualifies to get money from the Equalisation Fund. For instance, places such as Isiolo County and the Northern Kenya are supposed to benefit from Equalisation Fund. However, we do not know as yet whether or not these funds have done what they were supposed to do. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I hope that it will be given the attention and importance it deserves. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: I beg to support. view
• 20 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