Adan Keynan

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I want to invoke Standing Order No.216. I heard what the Chairman has said and I find it completely unacceptable in the 12th Parliament. Departmental Committees are created pursuant to Standing Order No.216 and their functions are clear. Committees can invoke that Standing Order and interrogate anything about the line Ministries that they oversee. I, therefore, find it irrelevant for a Chair of a committee to come to the plenary and seek the indulgence of the Chair. He has the powers. If there is any jurisdictional conflict with a particular committee, he should seek a ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I am a bit perplexed and disappointed. If Engineer Karue was here today, he would be as disappointed as I am. We are being taken back to pre-1999 era. One of the critical components in the formation of the NG-CDF Board or infrastructure was to enable a Member of Parliament to have a facility that will enable him or her to function independently from the Executive or other arms of the Government. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Why Engineer Karue and those who were there at that time came up with Constituencies Development Fund (CDF)…. If you reflect a bit, even for a second and look at the Member of Parliament in 1999 and right now, and compare with what we are complaining about, you will realise that we, as Members of Parliament, have disappointed the 12th Parliament. It is not fair to blame Hon. Wamunyinyi. Look at the Budget cycle. We have the Budget and Appropriations Committee, Constituencies Development Committee, National Treasury and NG-CDF Board. The relationship among these different entities is meant to enable the ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: If Kenyans down there realise that their Members of Parliament are complaining about disbursement of NG-CDF, then we will lose our oversight mandate or role. Therefore, what Hon. Wamunyinyi and his team tabled today should have been the first item after the Appropriation Bill was assented to. That should have come one or two days after His Excellency the President assented to the Appropriation Bill. It has come one month later. This is (inaudible) . view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: I want to suggest the following. The National Treasury mandarins will always manage us in line with their wish list in the Budget-making process. However, there are realities which we must also accept. That being the case, we will not accept Hon. Wamunyinyi and his team to come and complain on behalf of the Members of Parliament on the lack of funds. You need to deal with the National Treasury mandarins. Let them enable Members of Parliament, and by extension the Constituencies Development Committee, to get the funds. Let them release the money on time, so that a Member of ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as I conclude, I want to say that we need to internalise our role as Parliament. This House, under the Constitution 2010, provides leadership on very many issues: Budget-making process, oversight role and legislation. If we complain today, how about the millions of Kenyans who expect us to execute the oversight role? That is why I find this debate a bit misplaced. I know that Hon. Wamunyinyi and his team are capable. I worked with them in the past. I worked with Hon. Maore. Please take your functions or The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: mandates seriously. Let the National Treasury mandarins not reduce Parliament to a begging institution. Let us get what belongs to Parliament. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: I expect that facility of the Members of Parliament will remain respected. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Please, go and deal with the National Treasury, so that what remained in last year’s Budget is disbursed immediately, so that Members can have these funds. view
• 5 Aug 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. view