Amos Kimunya

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• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: of those rare situations where a Committee has met, looked at it, is satisfied with it and does not intend to make any amendment. It means we can expedite this so that by the time we are talking of the next review by World Bank in terms of what Kenya has been doing on business, our ranking is better. With COVID-19, there is a lot of money out there looking for decent places for people to invest. However, people are not just looking at where to put their brick and mortar but also on promises by governments: road shows by ... view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Reports of the Auditor-General and financial statements in respect of the following institutions, for the year ended 30th June 2019, and the certificates therein: (a) The University of Nairobi; and, (b) Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology Enterprises Limited. Perhaps, I would have wished to also lay another Paper on the Status of Disbursement of the National Government - Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). With your indulgence, I could brief Members on where we are. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Members, you may recall that we had a rather candid discussion on Thursday. I appreciate the sentiments of the Members because the message got where it needed to. As a result of that, we had a meeting with the National Treasury on Friday, assisted greatly by your interventions on Thursday. We managed to get some commitments on a number of things. First, Kshs6 billion had been disbursed from Treasury to the NG-CDF Board. That amount had not been disbursed to the constituencies. We made a decision that, that money must move from the Board to ... view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, instead of me reading the whole list for the 290 constituencies, the list will be available. I circulated it on our regular wall. I have checked and can confirm that there was money in the accounts of all the constituencies I tested. I have training in audit. Different constituencies have different amounts. Let us agree that we move in stages. The important thing to note is that we had an allocation of Kshs41.71 billion this year. That is what is in the Budget. As you all know, money cannot be paid from the National Treasury, unless it is ... view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Let us go slowly. The law has a certain timeline as to when money is supposed to be disbursed. It was made by this House. You do not disburse money ahead of its need. That is what we need to figure out. By third week of April, Kshs42 billion would have been disbursed. The Supplementary Estimates that came here, first, had a reduction of NG-CDF of Kshs10 billion. That has been reinstated. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: In addition, the Kshs13.718 billion that had not been included in relation to the 2019/2020 Financial Year has now been agreed and featured. You will see it in the Supplementary Budget as an amendment. Once we approve it, that amount will be disbursed from the fourth week of April, May and three weeks in June. By the third week of June, we shall have received Kshs54 billion as NG-CDF. That is something that the National Treasury committed in writing. I will follow it up. If it does not come, hold it on me. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The next thing that we need to do is to work with the Constituencies Development Committee. Even as we get money from the National Treasury to the Board, we need to make sure that it moves from the Board to the constituencies. I discussed this with the Board. The reason the money does not move is because Members have huge balances in their constituencies’ accounts. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Let the truth be told. It is true that there are some constituencies which have huge balances. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: There is Kshs20 billion that was disbursed between Monday and yesterday. I want to encourage Members to utilize it as much as possible, so that we can now pull the amount going to the Board and then we pull it to the constituencies. As long as the money is lying in constituencies’ accounts and you have not done the returns and requisition, the Board will sit with the money, instead of taking it to where it is supposed to be - to stimulate economic activities at the constituency level. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, Kshs13.7 billion was not included in the Supplementary Estimates earlier. The Board, in its wisdom, used part of the Kshs28 billion to pay the constituencies that had arrears. Just for your records, arrears of Kshs15.67 billion in the 2019/2020 Financial Year have been disbursed out of the Kshs28 billion meant for this year. Another Kshs742 million was also disbursed in respect of arrears of previous years because there are Members who had not claimed their monies for previous years. Kshs16.4 billion that relates to Kshs41 billion for this year has been paid to cover arrears for previous year. ... view