Dr. Agnes Zani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: There was a way that they would be vetted and looked at. You would find very good materials. view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, over and over again we have heard about text books with many mistakes. It appears that they were mass produced in a rush. Do we have the recommendations for textbooks that should be used? Who makes the recommendations? How are they being made? How consistently are they being made over time? It is not just about having a textbook. You need a textbook that is meant to help you cover certain aspects of the curriculum and understand specific aspects of what is happening within the particular discipline that one is looking at. Therefore, it is such ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I stand to support this Bill. Sen. Farhiya has really been passionate about issues of social audit. Before this Bill came to being, in a very structured way, well thought out and seriously put together, she already mentioned and talked about it for a long time. I am happy as I stand to support this Bill, to congratulate her because she has been able to achieve one of the things she is very passionate about, as we are also very passionate about. We have been talking about this issue without moving forward to create the ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it was only last week on the Floor of the House, that you talked about several counties where their finance offices had been burnt down. The finance officers suggesting that this is another effort to conceal some of the operations in those offices. This is sad remembering why we had devolution and that most of the people who voted for this Constitution voted for it because of the component of devolution. People felt that when things were centralized, some of their services and money was not going right up to their communities; and that this could be ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Therefore, Madam Temporary Speaker, many Kenyans intuitively realize that there is a lot of money that has gone out, that has been taken by people who have not worked for it, and are using it. Therefore, the notion that if we came up with a very streamlined way of understanding, vetting and asking about this---- This is not a new idea;overtime, we hear it being spoken about. We say, “Let us do a lifestyle audit.” However, as Sen. Farhiya clearly states in the Bill, especially in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons that, so far, no such framework has been ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, this is a very comprehensive Bill and it covers all the areas. I like the way it factors in other bodies and commissions that are involved in the fight against corruption. Just going through what it entails in terms of lifestyle audit, we have all issues, for example, about unexplained wealth, issuing of search warrants, making misleading statements and the penalties for doing this; the discharge of interim freezing order, the explanation that we can have members of the public initiating this process; that we can refer these matters to the Directorate of Public of Prosecution s ... view
• 5 Mar 2020 in Senate: enumerated in Clause 5. We have the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) established under Section 3 of the Kenya Revenue Act, the responsible commission under Section 3 of the Public Officer Ethics Act and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) established under Section 3 of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act. This Bill seeks to strengthen institutions that have been given power according to both Article 10 and Chapter Six of the Constitution. Article 10 talks about the need for transparency, integrity and open systems, so that people know what is happening. Chapter Six is about Leadership and Integrity. This is a ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I wish to support this Motion and I will do that very briefly. While supporting this Motion, allow me to also join you in welcoming the students form New Junior Campus Academy whom I have seen in the Public Gallery looking very smart, focused and following our proceedings. This is how we do our work here; looking after the interests of counties. In this case, we are looking at the interests of counties with regards to the MES project. A special committee has been formed with regard to this. Madam Temporary Speaker, what is coming ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, just to reiterate what Sen. Mwaura has said, this is not the first time we have had fires. In fact, we envisaged – I think it was in the Committee on Finance and Budget – that this might happen when we began to have sessions with governors due to lack of transparency, contrary to what we had expected. Somebody had imagined what might happen if records are burnt. That is when we thought of coming up with legislation on the same. At that time, we thought it was going to be the most ridiculous thing that people ... view
• 3 Mar 2020 in Senate: Some of the proposals to contain the situation were to come up with a heavy penalty for a fire setup in a county. By doing so, if someone thinks of setting up fire, they should know where to get the money. The Committee on Finance and Budget should come up with serious legislation to ensure that this does not happen in the future. Like others have said, we need to have other systems that can back up the information and the data. Mr. Speaker, Sir, so many questions have been raised in this House about the Integrated Financial Management Information ... view