Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want your guidance. As we embark on public participation, is there a criterion this House can adopt and use such that when Members of a Committee serve, we do so in the national interest and not our own? We all have constituencies and communities’ interests, but the overriding principle should be that of national interest. Therefore, I would have expected the Departmental Committee on Energy to spend much more time in, say, Loiyangalani, Garissa and Marsabit where there is wind power. There is also the Lake Turkana power project that is almost collapsing. There are areas in ... view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I would like you to give guidance to the Committees so that when we go out to conduct public participation we restrict ourselves to that which is in the public interest and for the national good and not to take our Committees to our constituencies and end up wasting this House’s and national resources by going to engage with people who have no idea what public participation is all about. I am saying that on the basis of what the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy has said. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to pick up from where Hon. Junet has left. I was not at the steps of Harambee House but I had occasion last week, when we were in Mombasa, through the courtesy of Hon. Junet and his phone, to speak to the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga. I remember that, that time I mentioned to the Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga that we respect and honour him as a great statesman in this country. Therefore, I take this opportunity to commend both His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta and Raila Odinga for this very momentous opportunity ... view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support the two leaders and ask those in NASA to support Raila Odinga in this endeavour. It is for the betterment… view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. On that note, let me begin by congratulating those chairs and vice-chairs who have taken their time to be here, and encourage chairs of other departmental committees to also join. On behalf of the members of BAC, and as required under Section 25(7) of the Public Finance Management Act, 2012 as well as our Standing Order 232(7), it is my great pleasure that I present to this House the committee’s report on the BPS 2018 and the medium-term debt management strategy for the Financial Year 2018/2019 and the medium term. This is the first BPS prepared ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: financial year be included, ideally includes the details of capital expenditure which should include a list of projects. Furthermore, the Committee noted that the ceiling for development expenditure and personnel spending of the national Government Budget approved by Parliament are not binding to the 2017 BPS as the case should be. This is contrary to PFM Regulation 27(5). The spirit of this binding was so as to ensure the medium-term expenditure framework becomes a reality and not a ritual and also to improve capital budget implementation. The importance of the Medium-Term Expenditure Framework (MTEF) is that it determines the fiscal ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Committee notes with concern that these same issues of non-compliance were raised in the previous Budget and Appropriations Committee Report of 2017 but even though this House recommended that the missing information be provided in subsequent BPSs, which in that case would have been the BPS for 2018/2019 Financial Year, this legal provision still has not been complied with. Such an outcome raises the questions as to whether recommendations of this House are indeed taken seriously. It is a challenge and that is why we are encouraging chairs of committees to be here because that ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: inflation outlook of the country is not very promising, as there are risks associated with rising fuel prices as we even witnessed in the recent past which may lead to higher transportation cost as well as rising cost of electricity associated with increasing use of expensive thermal power as a substitute for declining hydropower generation as a result of the declining rainfall levels. These risks, if they occur, will adversely affect the economic growth and macro-economic framework. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as we all know, Kenya again is facing significant pressure from the Budget deficit and debt accumulation. Existing expenditure ... view
• 28 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: of projects and the consequent result of not just delayed projects but a higher cost in the implementation of projects. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to skip the issues to do with BPS in terms of Agenda Four, but just note that the Committee is concerned. I did not want to go through the Agenda Four issues because we all know what the big four agenda is. However, it became a matter of concern to the Committee that the implementation framework of the Big Four agenda is not very well articulated in the BPS. There appears to be a ... view