Aden Bare Duale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 17 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 66 of the principal Act so as to include monitoring of non-financial performers. This is basically important in linking financial resources to actual output achieved whereas Clause 18 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 68 to, again, clarify the role of the CS for relevant entity. This is a very important Bill. The most important was on Clause 13 which I spent a lot of time on. This is another very important one. I want Members to go with me. Clause 37 proposes to amend Section 123(3) of the Act ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: More fundamentally, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, these pending bills must be verified before some governors go to elections. Is it true that these pending bills are genuine? They are now issuing letters of contracts in all manner of places; in bars, in churches and in mosques. In my county, the biggest contract is the fencing of graveyards. You are told to go and look for a graveyard somewhere, fence it and you are given money. I am sure there is no county which does not have a pending bill of between Kshs3 billion and Kshs10 billion. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 39 of the Bill proposes to amend Section 126 of the Act so as to provide a linkage plan being referred to Section 125. For you to understand this amendment, it is important that the Office of the Clerk provides the principal Act to members. You need to look at both the principal Act and the amendment. The amendment under Clause 39 proposes to extend time to allow county governments to prepare their annual development plans. I want to pick on the key highlights. The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill of 2015 is firmly anchored on Article 201 of ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: must be openness, accountability and public participation. The public must be involved. There must be prudent and responsible management of public resources. Finally, there must be responsible financial management and clearing of fiscal reporting. What happens in county governments? I thought the Budget and the Appropriations Bill we pass in this House are what guides the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury in allocation of projects. The same is replicated in the county government. What has been passed, through public participation by county assembly, must prevail. You will find that in a county, the governor wakes up one morning and ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the opportunity to speak to the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill. From the outset, it must be understood that the Public Finance Management (PFM) law is one of the most significant laws that are in existence in our country. We must at all times be prepared to safeguard it to make sure that it is in the best form. Whenever such amendments are brought, we must not allow this law to be used to bring inefficiencies into the way we manage our public finances. It is a good Bill. This Bill amends quite ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Because of time, I want to go to Clauses 13 and 14 of the Bill, which introduce sections 39A and 40A. One is at the national level, which is the National Treasury, and the other one is the equivalent of it at the county assembly level. We are giving powers to the National Treasury to use or start spending 50 per cent of the Budget of a given year without getting the approval of Parliament. There are occasions that could cause that to happen like in an election year. If we allow them to use 50 per cent of the ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 15, which amends Section 52 of the principal Act, brings in the issue of the appointment of an Accounting Officer to approve loans and documents. We must carefully scrutinise that clause in the Committee of the whole House. We must bring in wordings that The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: ensure that responsibility is carried by whoever is appointed to sign loans on behalf of either the national Government or county governments. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: I want to bring your attention to Clause 16 of this Bill, which amends section 60 of the principal Act. I am surprised by this. How can we introduce this new clause? It says that the Attorney-General can give instructions for money to be withdrawn from the Consolidated Fund. That will be adequate instruction to the Controller of Budget to approve that payment or that guarantee. It will not be wise to do so without consulting the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for the National Treasury. It is another important amendment which we must bring to this particular Bill. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: The other issues have a lot to do with the manner in which we want to control the usage of funds by the national Government. I will bring amendment to Clause 50, which is not shown here. This amendment is very important because unfortunately, the prior amendment to the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act revised Section 50, before the execution of the infamous Eurobond, to allow the CS and the Central Bank of Kenya to open accounts overseas to hold money collected on behalf of Kenyans out there from either the proceeds of the kinds of bonds that we have ... view