Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The Budget and Appropriations Committee wishes to thank your Office, the Office of the Clerk of the National Assembly and the Parliamentary Budget Office for the committed 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
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: assistance which was received as it discharged its mandate during deliberations on this Bill. On behalf of the Members of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, most of them are in this Chamber this afternoon, and as required under Article 204 and 221(5) of the Constitution, as well as Section 18(4) of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, 2012, it is with great pleasure that I table this Report for the House to note its contents, and then debate the approval of the Division of Revenue Bill for the Financial Year 2018/2019. view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: On the sharable revenue, the Division of Revenue Bill, 2018 provides that the projected total sharable revenue between the national Government and the county governments for the next Financial Year 2018/2019 will be Kshs1.688492 trillion. It comprises of the national Government’s share of Kshs1.369792 trillion, further Kshs4.7 billion towards the Equalisation Fund and Kshs314 billion that will go to the equitable share of revenue to county governments. Furthermore, the national Government share of revenue for 2018 as provided for additional and conditional allocations to the counties amount to a total of about Kshs17.231 billion. These allocations have been earmarked for ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: A further Kshs4.326 billion towards Level 5 hospitals across the country, a supplement of Kshs605 million for construction of county headquarters and Kshs2 billion for rehabilitation of youth polytechnics. It is worth noting that the county headquarters allocation of Kshs605 million is going to specific counties. From the Report, the Members will note a number of counties that will benefit from this allocation. They are Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, Tana-River and Tharaka Nithi counties. It is also worth noting that this allocation is part of a three-year plan which began in the 2016/2017 Financial Year to supplement the five counties to ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, on the county government allocations, the Division of Revenue Bill, 2018 proposes to allocate Kshs372.741 billion to county governments as follows: A sum of Kshs314 billion equitable share to county governments, an additional conditional allocation of the share of national revenue of Kshs17.231 billion; a sum of Kshs4.7 billion towards the Equalisation Fund, Kshs8.269 billion from the fuel levy and Kshs33.2 billion conditional allocations for loans and grants. view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Besides these five areas, there is a provision of Kshs4.5 billion from the national Government share as a special grant to the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) to cater for free maternal healthcare to be disbursed as reimbursement to county governments. This will allow expectant mothers, both for pre-natal and post-natal care, to access maternal healthcare free of charge in any county government-managed hospital across the country. Previously, free material healthcare was reimbursed directly to county governments, but there is a policy shift in The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: the administration of free maternal healthcare where the service shall be administered through the existing NHIF framework. Hon. Speaker, this is worth noting. You will remember that during the 11th Parliament, we always had issues with the disbursement of these funds to county governments. The county governments complained of delays in the release of this money to them. Therefore, many expectant mothers were unable to access free maternal healthcare on the argument that a number of public hospitals run by county governments were not able to offer these services because they had not been reimbursed the money. The Government has ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: This departure in policy will not just help county governments in getting timely reimbursements, but it will also help our expectant mothers. It is also in line with the promises made by His Excellency the President during the campaigns, that not only will expectant mothers be given free delivery services, but even a year after delivery, both the mother and the child will be under the care of the NHIF in pursuant to that promise which was in the Jubilee Manifesto to offer free maternal healthcare for the mother and the child for the first one year of life. This ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the Committee noted that the most recent audited accounts, which are the basis of sharing revenue in accordance with Article 203(2) of the Constitution, are those of the Financial Year 2013/2014. This is on account that the National Assembly is yet to approve audited accounts of revenues of Financial Years 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. I am sure the Auditor-General is now working towards 2016/2017. We implore the relevant committee and the House to fast-track the approval of these accounts, so that the Division of Revenue Bill is based on the most recent audited accounts of the Government. We are ... view
• 15 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: The Committee observed that despite the allocation for leasing of medical equipment having increased to the current Ksh9.4 billion, there was need to audit the beneficiaries of these equipment as well as the details of the contracts. The Committee observed that some of the 94 hospitals in respective counties that were expected to receive the specialised equipment are yet to receive them. Some lack the relevant skills and reagents to operate them. Therefore, there are many hospitals with machines, but simple things like reagents or skills to use the machines are lacking and, therefore, they remain unutilised. To this end, ... view