Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 821 to 830 of 6175.

• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: When we devolved, some people were not quite sure what it meant. They thought it was decentralisation of services as had been done through the District Focus for Rural Development in those days. When we devolved functions, it meant giving functions, money, and decision-making ability to the local level. This takes place within the framework of the County Integrated Development Plans (CIDPs) which then involve the people in public participation in terms of what priority needs are and what they want done. So, they are involved from that angle. That is for purposes of utilising the national revenue that is ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: shared. No. When a specific funding agency decides that they want to fund some climate change issue, they must just look at where the water towers are, or where they can best mitigate climate change issues and fund projects in that area. Hence it is not about equity. It is about what the people want. What is becoming very clear is that these conditional grants cannot be used for anything else. I served in the Departmental Committee on Education and Research and I know there was Ksh2 billion that kept on being sent to the counties for purposes of helping ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: I cannot over-emphasise why we did this. The Senate, perhaps, has major limitations. When you look at Article 96 of the Constitution, it basically talks of the Senate having oversight over the national revenue that has been allocated to the county governments. It does not talk about the expenditure, or about own-revenue raised by the counties. So the Senate can only oversee the national revenue that has been appropriated to the counties. It is not even very clear what that oversight means and whether it is to ensure that Treasury has sent the money. This is because it does not ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: This is a good law and I do hope we will enrich it further to also bring in conditional grants. Those conditions do not just mean what you can use the money for. We foresee a situation where the Treasury should be giving grants and saying, we will give you this money on condition that you raise 10 per cent. If you raise the 10 per cent, then you get the 90 per cent so that we can incentivise the county governments to make their own contributions towards development projects. Indeed, they can own the projects. Right now there is ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: a big issue either because of frustration, or the coordination between what the national Government and what the county government are doing. Contractors keep on leaving the site. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: We have seen conditional grants working very well within the road sector especially the roads that are co-financed by the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA). I do not see why we cannot have the same thing happening on mega projects, including in the Managed Equipment Scheme that seems to have some issues that I do not want to get into. It is for other people to tell us. Like I said, I am in total agreement with the generic text and objects of this Bill, but I am totally opposed to the inclusion of references to the allocation for 2021 ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Yes, I will take the information. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you for the information. However, be that as it may, When I now look at Clause 4, I am not sure whether we are saying that World Bank is obligated to finance national agriculture and rural inclusive growth project into the future or indeed the German Development Bank will finance the drought resilience programme into the future. We probably do not need examples cited in the law. That can be done in Regulations. However, we can do a generic law and ask that Regulations be done through those Schedules so that when you look at a law, it will ... view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: No. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Indeed, from the Long Title, it is very clear: An Act of Parliament to provide for the additional allocations to county governments for 2021/2022 Financial Year. The key word is "additional allocations". The issue of additional allocation is within the framework of the National Assembly. We are the ones who appropriated money, not the Senate. If we continue with this, there is no reason why they cannot come next year and say we now want an additional requirement. We will be dragged, like we have been dragged in the past. This is my issue. I want us to interrogate it. ... view