Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Independence does not just come by being stated in the Constitution and saying that we are independent. It must come with financial autonomy. It is good that the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) together with the Chair and Members of the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation have worked on regulations on the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: operationalisation of the Judiciary Fund. We must ensure that the Judiciary and Parliament remain independent. In relation to fines, forfeitures and user fees collected by the Judiciary, we have recommended that for user fees — these are the fines and forfeitures — that are collected by the Judiciary in our courts for services rendered, be retained and applied at source to enable the operationalisation of the Judiciary Fund, in line with Article 173 of the Constitution and similar to other Government institutions that generate and retain A-in-A revenues. Hon. Speaker, you remember last year — when the economy was under ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: passed a lot of legislations that have created a number of institutions that are yet to be operationalised. On the expenditure reduction efforts, the policy of cutting the Budget by a certain percentage across the board is not an effective way of expenditure control. There should be critical reforms in expenditure that will isolate wasteful expenditure and ensure that only key expenditure needs are funded. You will realise that when the in-year budget cuts come — and we are likely to get one in the next few weeks, the second Supplementary Budget. This is something we have expressed concern about, ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: debt ceiling and to ensure that external debt service costs do not breach internationally accepted debt service to exports ratio threshold in the medium term. You remember last year when we were reviewing the debt ceiling, there was a commitment by the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury that they would adhere to the Medium- Term Debt Strategy. They would not only adhere to that, but that they would make an effort to move away from domestic and commercial borrowing to more of concessional loans. That, as I indicated, is yet to be seen clearly from what they have presented in the ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Departmental Committees on specific MDAs as attached to this Report in Schedules 2 and 3. The compendium of these recommendations was attached to the Report and Members are free to see that in the Table Office. It has very many useful recommendations that we encourage the National Treasury to look into as they move towards the Estimates and make sure that, together with the MDAs, they are able to implement. (v) That, county governments be allocated Kshs369.868 billion for the 2020/2021 Financial Year distributed as follows: (a) The equitable share to county governments - Kshs316.5 billion. As I indicated, this ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The allocation to the Equalisation Fund of Kshs6.53 billion be approved as provided in the Budget Policy Statement (BPS). Lastly is that once approved by this House, these recommendations, together with Schedule 1 attached, shall form the basis for the 2020/2021 Budget. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those very many remarks, I beg to move. As I said, with your permission, I will be seeking to move the amendment towards the three votes I mentioned, once The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: you propose the Question. I take this opportunity to request the Leader of Minority Party, who is also a very active member of the Departmental Committee on Budget and Appropriations, to second. He is the only Member who has been in this Committee from 10th, 11th and the 12thParliament but, unfortunately, may not be there in the 13th Parliament. We hope he will be managing another government somewhere else in Homa Bay County. view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. As I had indicated, I want to appreciate what the Leader of the Majority Party has indicated. I beg to move: THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following words immediately after the figure “2020”– “Subject to: (a) Amendment of paragraph 47 as follows- (i) by deleting sub-paragraph I on Page 21 of the Report under the Financial Recommendations, and substituting thereof the following new sub-paragraph: "I. That, the ceiling of each arm of Government for FY 2020/21 be capped as follows: (i) Parliament – Ksh36.22 billion (ii) Judiciary – Ksh18.05 billion (iii)Executive – Ksh1,778.13 ... view
• 4 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: In line with the fiscal consolidation efforts by everybody in the Government, including the Executive, as the Leader of the Majority Party, the Leader of the Minority Party and myself, have mentioned, the Executive has cut its own budget by almost Kshs200 billion in terms of expenditure cuts. Considering the heavy requirements that we need and the challenges, as I have mentioned, on the global outlook of the economy and climate change, locusts invasion, coronavirus and the antecedent consequences that we have to our revenues, we had anticipated as the Budget and Appropriations Committee that we will ask the National ... view