Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure from the Equalisation Fund for the Financial Year 2017/18, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 3rd May 2018, and pursuant to provisions of Article 204 of the Constitution and Standing Order 235(5), approves the withdrawal of Kshs.11, 977, 764, 688 from the Equalisation Fund that consists of: (i) Kshs. 428,162,930.40 for Recurrent Expenditure; and (ii) Kshs. 11,549,601,757.60 for Development Expenditure. view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, as per the Report tabled before this House and, as I mentioned in the Procedural Motion, this is simply a revote of the same Appropriations Bill that we did in the last financial year but lapsed. If Hon. Members read the Committee’s recommendations, they would have seen that we are recommending that in future, to avoid further delays in implementation of the Equalisation Fund, the National Treasury should submit the Equalisation Fund Estimates together with the Annual Estimates beginning with the 2018/2019 Financial Estimates. The Financial Estimates for the ensuing Financial Year were tabled by the Leader ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: It is also imperative that this House insists that the National Treasury tables these Estimates together so that as we consider the Annual Estimates, we also consider the Equalisation Fund Estimates to avoid a situation like the one we are in now where we have to revote because in the last financial year, we were only able to appropriate this money too close to the end of the financial year. Therefore, the agencies that were implementing these projects were not able to do so and absorb this money before the end of the financial year. view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: The other recommendation is that the second generation marginalisation policy being developed by the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) should and must be tabled in this House. There is a tendency by some of these constitutional commissions to ignore, and hold with a lot of contempt, this House. As representatives of our people, we have a stake in many of these policies. We must insist, as recommended by the Committee, that this policy be tabled and adopted by this House so that if there are regions that warrant qualification under Equalisation Fund and are currently not benefiting, they can benefit. ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Of course, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Areas like Kiptororo where people are suffering and have been marginalised over the years. Therefore, we need to have Members of this House to interrogate that marginalisation policy so that we ensure that those areas that are not covered are also covered, not just the counties as was there in the first marginalisation policy. Thirdly, the Committee recommends the amendment of the Public Finance Management Act to provide the necessary safeguard of the resources in the Fund. Specifically, the Committee will move to make amendments geared towards making sure that the resources appropriated do not ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Turkana County, from the advent of devolution, it is one of the counties that have received the highest allocation of development funds. Also in this Bill, it is receiving the highest allocation of the Equalisation Fund. Before we changed the allocation formulae for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), constituencies in Turkana County were also receiving the highest allocations, but we and the rest of Kenyans know that there is nothing significant that has happened in Turkana County to change the lives of the people of Turkana. Therefore, it is a challenge to the Members of that county and, ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Supplementary Appropriation (No.2) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.15 of 2018) be now read a Second Time. I take this opportunity to thank all the Members, through their respective committees, for the immense work they put in within a very short time for us to be able to finish these reports and prepare this Bill. Without saying much, we tabled the Report before this House last week on Thursday and Members were gracious enough to pass the Bill in a record time of less than 15 minutes. The Committee has observed that ... view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: This problem confirms emerging budget credibility weaknesses. Therefore, again, it should be on this House to implore the National Treasury and the ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to hasten the absorption of development funds so that we can implement development projects, especially with the President’s call yesterday on this House to support his Big Four Agenda. It will be imperative that all MDAs ensure that where we allocate funds for 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
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: development, money is absorbed within the financial year that it has been allocated. Therefore, with these concerns, and given the investigations surrounding the payment of land for compensation for Ruaraka High School and Drive-Inn Primary School, the Committee has recommended that the Supplementary Appropriation Bill for 2017/2018 be amended so as to exclude Kshs1.5 billion for land compensation for Ruaraka High School and Drive-Inn Primary School. view
• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Deputy Speaker. 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