Hon Anthony Kimani Ichung'Wah

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• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: An example is the Horticultural Development Authority (HCDA), which is now a directorate under the new AFFA Act. In the Financial Year 2004/2005, they had a deficit of Kshs129 million, which brings the total cumulative deficit to a negative of close to Kshs1 billion - about Kshs763 million as at the end of June 2005. That is not the only corporation that is suffering from that sort of position. Those who come from pastoralist areas will bear me witness. A State corporation like the Kenya Meat Commission (KMC) is in a very precarious financial situation and continues to rely on ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: sector like our public universities, still rely heavily on the Exchequer to finance their operations. Even a school like the Kenya School of Monetary Studies that initially operated under a grant from the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), as it is, is still heavily reliant on those grants both from the Exchequer and from CBK . One wonders why universities that are admitting thousands of our children and charging them very high fees are not able to operate profitably and even be a source of revenue to the Exchequer. Instead, they are relying on the Exchequer for financial support whereas ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Sorry for that. It is the microphone that went off. Those public universities have resources like land. Again, many have land outside our CBD and in other cities across the country that they can utilise by partnering with private sector players, earn revenues and, therefore, diversify from the over-reliance on fees from their students. I am generally mentioning the things that we have observed almost across the entire spectrum of 64 corporations. The third observation that the Committee observed across the board is non-remittance of statutory deductions. It is sad that statutory deductions such as National Social Security Fund (NSSF), ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: We have made very telling recommendations and one of the things we have proposed--- This is money that has already been deducted from an employee’s salary. Some of the employees are retiring and others are falling sick. They cannot, therefore, access health services because their NHIF cards are not updated. Those who retire cannot access their pension dues from NSSF because their contributions were not remitted. Therefore, the Committee has recommended that all State corporations should settle all statutory deductions in a timely manner as provided for in the relevant legislation and financial regulations to avoid contravention of the law ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we did this to safeguard public interest. I am sure many Members in this House will support this move because they are the people who deal with many of those unfortunate staffers who are forced to go without support from NHIF simply because their dues have not been remitted. Those people flock our constituency offices seeking medical assistance. If only the State corporations had remitted this money--- That is why we have put timelines as to when all the State corporations that have deducted statutory deductions from their employees must remit that money to KRA, NSSF, ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Lastly, the Chief Executive Officers or Accounting Officers whose State corporations’ land and buildings have been illegally disposed of should liaise with the Office of the Attorney General and the National Land Commission with a view to ensuring that all those titles are revoked and land reverted to the State corporations. The fifth general observation is on expenditures across the board. In almost all those State corporations, expenditures go beyond the budget. This is a very easy thing because State corporations operate within budgets set out and approved by their parent ministries and this House by extension. Some go to ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: approvals. Some take long to obtain that from their parent ministries or from the National Treasury. We have, therefore, recommended that CEOs of State corporations that have spent beyond their approved budgets should obtain, within three months of the adoption of this Report, post facto approval of their revised budgets from boards, parent ministries and the National Treasury if their expenditures were necessitated by factors beyond their control. We must emphasize that it must only be as a result of factors beyond the control of the boards of the State corporations. This is because some of the expenditures are those ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: fully complied with to ensure that they are not paying people who should not be earning allowances. view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: The seventh general observation is on the breach of procurement laws and this cuts across all the boards. We have observed that several State corporations continue to violate the provisions of the procurement law and regulations in their procurement of goods and services. For instance, the Auditor-General could not confirm the propriety of the total expenditure of a sum of Kshs16.5 million on the procurement of goods and services for the year ended 30th June 2011 by the Kenya Medical Laboratory Technologists and Technicians Board. Further, the Board engaged, through direct procurement, the services of an auctioneer, tax and legal ... view
• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Further, we recommend that the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should, within a month of the adoption of this Report, initiate investigations of the officers of any State corporation who have been mentioned in this Report as having violated the procurement laws and regulations. The Report is available for anybody who may need it. I believe the EACC will, and must, move with speed within a month to get hold of it. In fact, the moment this Report was tabled in this House, it became a public document. The Report was tabled many months ago. Therefore, there is no reason ... view