30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Attorney General to certify projects. 21A. (1) Subject to the provisions of Part III and Part VI, the Attorney- General shall have power to determine whether a proposed project concerns county government. (2) A contracting authority or county government which intends to enter into a public private partnership shall apply to the Attorney-General for a determination as to whether the proposed project concerns a county government. (3) The Attorney-General shall issue a certificate of the determination in accordance with this section. The intention of this clause is to reinforce what is already in the Bill. Parts 3 and 6 of ...
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Duale, said, this will prevent cases where a governor decides to engage into projects that necessarily do not involve county governments or where a contracting authority gets into projects that touch county governments. Any contracting authority or county government that intends to get into a PPP agreement will then apply to the Attorney-General to give a determination as to whether the proposed projects concern a county government. Thereafter, a certificate will be issued. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I oppose this amendment. My reason is simple, as I had stated earlier. Yes, you are putting private The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
capital but this private capital is expected to be recouped from public funds not through profits from some enterprise. Therefore, it is important and imperative that the Office of the Auditor General is involved in audit of any project where public money is being used, whether it is at the beginning of the project, at inception or at the end of the project. I want to give the example of this Expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) to ABC Place, Westlands. As much as it is China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) or whoever it is that is putting ...
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I am from Kiambu County but not Nyeri County. I know the difference.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Those Members who are shouting do not know where I went to school.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I want to respond to two issues. One is on the role of the Attorney-General. According to the Constitution, he is the legal adviser of the Government. Therefore, I seek to give authority to the Attorney-General, who is the Government’s sole legal advisor, to make a determination. This will ensure that we avoid the very issues that the Leader of the Majority Party is talking about – that, tomorrow somebody will claim that the Expressway from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Rironi and ABC passes through the Counties of Machakos and Nairobi, and therefore, it involves ...
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. I was being disrupted by those who were being mobilised to oppose even without knowing what they are opposing.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to withdraw.
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30 Jun 2021 in National Assembly:
I was saying that, moving forward, I beg to withdraw that. It is the unnecessary distraction that I was referring to. Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: THAT, the Bill be amended by inserting the following new clause immediately after clause 59…
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