14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
I read today in the newspapers that the Constituencies Development Fund CDF) should be audited. What the governors need to know is that we are usually audited every year and we have nothing to hide. If you have nothing to hide, anybody who summons you, just go there with your executive and clear your name and go home. But if you start hiding, it means there is something. The guilty ones are always afraid. What are they afraid of? A sum of Kshs280 billion is a lot of money if it is utilized well. If the county government puts the ...
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14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is a lot of wastage at the county governments and they need to reduce that. We have seen corruption of the highest order at the county governments. Money is usually allocated in this Parliament. If there is any increase of money, it will come from this Parliament. We have to sit down and the Senate has to sit down and see what they have done with the previous monies to determine what we will give them in the next financial year. But right now what the governors are asking, we cannot give them. They should ...
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14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
I want the governors to think twice. I heard another governor saying that being summoned by the Senate meant that they wanted to judge how beautiful or handsome he is. He is being summoned to answer questions about his county. I also want to tell the governors from the four counties who refused to sit with the Senate: Shame on them! They should know that they need to go there to answer questions so that the counties stop suffering. The four counties are suffering. The county should not suffer because of four individuals. We refuse and we will not watch ...
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14 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
As we sit here, I am in solidarity with the Senate. It is an institution that is in the Constitution. It should be respected and their job should be respected. The governors should not feel that they are gods from counties; that nobody should question them. They should sit down and account for the money that has been allocated to them as the CEOs of those counties.
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6 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Mine will be very short because a lot has been said. I want to support and say that the Kenya Ports Authority needs to be given space once and for all. The Kenya Railways should let go. If at all the KPA has to expand and grow, it needs to be given space to do it without the interference from the Kenya Railways. We know that right now, a lot of changes are happening at KPA and the expansion is taking place there. But they have to keep on relying on and asking for ...
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5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the Motion. When hon. James Orengo was the Minister for Lands, he had a chance--- If he revoked 1,000 acres of land and decided not say that was his problem. Now, there is a Madam who has gone there as the Minister for Lands and she wants to do a proper and thorough job.
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5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
She has come out and shown us the way. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Jubilee, in their manifesto said that---
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5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, can I finish saying what I want to say? Do not be cowards. Cowards are the only ones who do not like people to speak. Let me say what I am saying. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we said that we were going to sort out the land problem. A journey of a long mile starts with one step. That is where we are starting right now. Madam Charity Ngilu has sat there and because Lamu was hit recently, they wanted to know exactly what is happening there. It was revealed that most of the land in ...
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5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
was grabbed and that is where we are starting from. We know there are land injustices there but that is where we are starting from. We need to be given a chance. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, James Orengo said that he was not in charge. But I want to say right now as I stand here - and it is the truth - that I am the patron of the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) in my constituency. However, if anything happened in my CDF in Thika, the person who is in charge is me. So, the person who was in ...
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5 Aug 2014 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker there is nothing out of order. I am stating a fact. There is nothing out of order. Relax so that I finish. I only have a second. Let me finish. Let us be told the truth of exactly what happened.
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