Abshiro Soka Halake

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1361 to 1370 of 1750.

• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I am lucky to be the first to contribute this time. I stand to support this Motion. However, today we have discussed quite a bit about corruption. In my view, corruption starts at this stage; budget making. The budget making process has four stages; formulation and adoption, which is why we are here very late in the night. There is also the implementation and finally, control. Formulation happens with the line Ministries and the National Treasury before coming to us is where it all begins. In my view, that is the place that we ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the actual money is, of course, used at the execution and control bit; what is also referred to as kutenda phase of the budget. However, most corrupt practices sometimes happen at the stage of formulation and adoption. I know that this House has the opportunity to change some of the propositions. As I was reading this BPS, I wondered if our committees had actually proposed any changes to the budget that The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: was presented to us by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the national Treasury. From what I have heard the Chairperson saying, it looks like we went with the recommendations of the CRA and the Council of Governors (CoG) which is all good. However, as this House and as parliamentarians, we should make sure that we exercise our oversight role. I was looking for our oversight role in this process of formulation or at least at this stage of adoption. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the past, the one thing that I have noticed in the budgeting process is the little time that is given. Perhaps the Committee had more time than what we did as legislators. Let me speak for myself; I feel like this process is so rushed that not enough time is given for us to scrutinize the budget formulation process and for us to play our role of oversight at the adoption stage. I hope that the Committee had more time than the rest of us because there are certain emerging issues that are really critical ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: There are a lot of issues, but I know that this budget is geared to the Big Four Agenda of manufacturing, universal health care, food security and affordable housing. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what is worrying me is the fact that we have become a net importer of everything. At which point will we spur production and manufacturing in this budget or at the implementation stage when we are importing everything? We have talked about importation of maize which killed our local production. What has been proposed as a way of making sure that manufacturing is supported in exactly what ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: what are we doing? Is our budgeting process part of the problem of grand corruption? We literally allocate to the corruption downstream at the kutenda stage of it. I hope that this House will look out for these things. It will be sad if the budgeting process becomes part of the corruption facilitation process. We need to look at this and make sure that as people who oversight, we are not part of the problem. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I listened to the Chairperson talk about the role of county governments in the BPS, it is not clear how ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is increase in expenditure for the national Government by Kshs99 billion and a reduction of the expenditure for development of Kshs26 billion. Even in terms of realising economic growth, we are not basing the economic growth on any tangible and fundamentals of economics but on good weather and things like that. How then will we make sure that we achieve our revenue projections? In the past, the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) has told us that they will collect a certain amount. Not once have they ever been able to collect the projections. Why should then ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: What are we saying if we continue like this? I do not know why, but in the last budget, I saw--- view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in the Financial Year 2018/2018 there were three different versions of the total expenditure for the country. The amount that was gazetted was different from the amount in the BPS. I am keenly going to watch what the gazetted amounts are going to be. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know I have a lot of input into many areas. I urge this House to make sure we do not become part of the people who did not play their role in the budgeting process, especially of this adoption stage. Later on, we should not start The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view