Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I am used to being referred to as the Chairman of BAC. The new title of Mediation sounds quite strange. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I can also confirm to Hon. Pukose that I was not tabling the Mediation Report to members of the Press. We were discussing other strategic issues relating to something that the Hon. Leader of the Majority Party knows. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg to move that the Public Finance Management (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 63 of 2019) be now read a Second Time. This is a short Bill. It is basically informed by what has been perceived to be a crisis in relation to the disbursement of funds to our county governments since the stalemate that we had with our colleagues in the Senate and the Council of Governors in relation to the Division of Revenue Bill. There has been a lacuna in the law such that if we have a protracted stalemate ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was also taken aback because I do not know what the Leader of the Majority Party was speaking about. In fact, the Leader of the Minority Party is the one who is right in his point of order in terms of mixing languages. Language is also evolving. I used the term “ tangatangaring”, meaning moving around the counties. I am well advised in terms of mixing languages. Language is evolving. There are many Swahili words that have been incorporated into the English language and vice versa, like ‘safari’ have been incorporated into the ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I am in business, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying from my engagements with Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) across the country… view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, let us just ignore what the Leader of the Majority Party said. Just like Hon. Ndindi Nyoro, I am a law- abiding citizen of this country. In terms of recruiting people, I am good at recruiting. view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if we may continue, I hope the Leader of the Majority Party will not interrupt again. I was saying as I move around the counties and engage with many MCAs, including those from my own county and constituency, many of them will tell you – even this last weekend I was with a few at a fundraising somewhere – they have not received their salaries since the end of June of the last financial year. Therefore, it is not just the healthcare workers and other staff in the counties that have been subjected to a lot ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: under IBEC have an opportunity as the Executives in both the national and county governments and the commission in charge of revenue allocation to agree at the IBEC level. If they agree, they make the work of this House and of the Senate much easier. The main objective of this Bill, therefore, is to put in place interim measures to allow county governments to access the bare minimum of their share of revenue as guaranteed and granted to them under Article 206(2) of the Constitution to enable them to offer services to the public pending enactment of the Division of ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: As I said, resources are very limited. With time, our needs and demand for resources will far much outstrip the available resources. So, it is almost guaranteed that every other financial year we will not probably be in agreement on how much resource we will share between the two levels of government. However, the Constitution, as passed in 2010, guarantees that at least a minimum of 15 per cent will be given as sharable revenue to county governments. So, irrespective of whether or not we have passed the Division of Revenue Bill, the 15 per cent that has been granted ... view
• 11 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Other than safeguarding the 15 per cent, Clause 2 of the Bill proposes to insert a new Section 191A into the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 to allow the Senate, by resolution, to divide the guaranteed 15 per cent among counties in the event that a Division of Revenue Bill has not been passed by the 10th day of June. This is in line with the Senate’s role of approving the basis for allocation of national revenue among county governments every five years, pursuant to Article 217 of the Constitution. view