Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1151 to 1160 of 1784.

• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: think it is the basis of all these that the framers of the Constitution 2010, were formulating it, they were very clear in Chapter 4 about the Bill of rights. They ensured that this Bill of rights becomes the equalizer. How does it become an equalizer if there is no operational framework? This is what this Bill wants to do; it wants to put the framework at the county and the national levels so that it is possible for indices of baseline study to be done. I have seen it mentioned in this Bill. How do you begin to improve ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: This Bill does something good; I think it is in Clause 19 where they set out provisions on delegated legislation, so that a particular mechanism is put into place to ensure that there is a mechanism of management of direct and indirect conditional grants that are appropriated from the Equalization Fund that can be controlled and looked at. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: I think in another clause, they are very specific where the report is meant to come to various Houses, including the Senate. This is in Clause 14 where it states that (14): Once every year, not later than 30th September, a report will be put into place by the Commission on Human Rights. They will give this report and it will go through various organs: The Senate, the National Assembly, every county Assembly and the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA). view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Again, it goes a step further to ensure that there is a direct monitoring and evaluation mechanism by ensuring that a system will also be put into place to get these indices. So, it might not necessarily be the Gini Co-efficient which is more elaborate to calculate, where you should have a Lorenz Curve and a lot of data but at least some sort of data that will be put into place and this will help us. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I find that when we are talking about various counties, it is only that it is done on a very ad-hoc basis where you find various counties being given various positions in terms of this is the best and this is the worst performing. I wish there were better social acknowledged audits so that a discussion can begin within the various regional blocs in the various counties so that county X can ask: Why are we being left behind? Why are we, as Lamu County, not doing as well as Tana River County? Our socio-economic, cultural environment ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: What needs to be done again, can be infused by what people bring on the table. This Bill again does something else which is very important. It probably does because there was a shortage of the Public Participation Bill that has not been made into an Act and yet it infuses a process of public participation that is clearly stipulated at the various sections; this is at Clause 21. It goes very specifically to talk about what would be expected and this is fantastic for a Bill to do this in carrying out public participation because this, to me, is ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: The framers of the Constitution were Kenyans and hence they knew what would happen. They projected half of these things happening and they put various regulatory mechanisms; the Controller of Budget and the Senate, to ensure that there are controls. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: Today, we have woken up to Kshs21 billion in a scam called a dam. Audits have to be made because it is people who are involved, but the strongest tool in this Constitution is public participation and public opinion. That is why, even in the regional framing of this Constitution, the governors were envisaged to be within the counties so that people can come to the governor and say: “We needed this hospital to be in place, what is wrong?” “We needed this school to be in place, what is wrong?” The Governor would have to respond directly to that, ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: One way or another, many processes have found a way to distance themselves from public participation, either by putting adverts in the newspapers and, therefore, nobody will turn up for that participation. They are not really going out of the way. This clause is very important. I will not go through it, but it ensures and goes through each stage to ensure that adequate public participation is made. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in Senate: I think this particular clause should be infused in all the laws and the legislative proposals we are making, up to the time the Public Participation Bill is enforced. Identifying the relevant stakeholders, for example, and representing the relevant sectors who are directly affected in decision making, this must be there on the table, and informing the residents of the respective counties of the intended preparation and so on and so forth. Those are very critical and important in this Bill. So, again when development of theories started in the 1960s, one of the driving forces was economic development and ... view