29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you for the protection from Hon. Sankok, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I thought it was a Serjeant-At-Arms standing behind me when I turned, by his mode of dressing. Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House. Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its review of the Division of Revenue (Amendment) Bill (Senate Bill No.14 of 2018).
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to second this Bill.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
The Leader of the Majority Party has articulated that this amendment Bill emanated from conditional grants and loans from donors that were not available by the time we were doing the Division of Revenue Bill earlier this year. Therefore, they had not got to the National Treasury and that is why it was necessary for the Senate to amend the Act to be in line with the County Allocation of Revenue Bill that we passed earlier this year.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
I do not know what is happening in the House this morning. The consultations are too loud.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you Hon. Deputy Speaker for your protection. The Member for Dagoretti South, Hon. John Kiarie tells me it is what was famously referred to ‘closing day excitement’ since the House is expected to go on recess tomorrow. Many of the new Members are excited because they are suffering from the closing day excitement.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
As the Leader of the Majority Party pointed out, the conditional grants are three. One of Kshs1 billion, being a grant from Sweden for Agriculture Sector Development and Support Programme. The programme is part of the implementation strategy of the agriculture policy for both levels of Government; county and national, to facilitate commercialisation of agricultural- based enterprises by transforming food, livestock and fishery production. As Members will note from Annex 1, the money will go to all the 47 counties including Nairobi County, which I do not know which part of Nairobi is for agricultural production. But it benefits to ...
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
The second conditional grant is from the European Union for water tower protection and climate change mitigation and adaptation programme. It goes to 11 counties among them being Busia, Bungoma, Elgeyo Marakwet, Kakamega, Kisumu, Nandi, Siaya, Tana River, Trans Nzoia, Uasin Gishu and Vihiga. Each will get Kshs80 million to make a total of Kshs880 million.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
The last conditional grant of Kshs1.85 billion is to be financed by the International Development Assistance, a programme of the World Bank and is geared towards the establishment and operationalisation of urban institutional arrangements such as charters, boards, administrations and for the initial preparation for urban infrastructure investments. This 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.
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29 Aug 2018 in National Assembly:
programme, as was articulated by the Leader of the Majority Party, covers 45 counties with the exception of Nairobi and Mombasa counties. Each county will receive a total of Kshs41.2 million.
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