Benard Masaka Shinali

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Dec 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to report that a Committee of the whole House has considered the Kenya Roads (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.13 of 2021) and approved the same with amendments. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its consideration of the County Governments Grants Bill (Senate Bill No. 35 of 2021). view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I wish to make some comments as I reply. First of all, I want to thank all the Members who have contributed to this Bill because they have brought up very critical issues. As a Committee, we shall go through The Hansard and ensure that we pick all those points and include them in our amendments. 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. view
• 23 Nov 2021 in National Assembly: As a Committee, we put an advertisement on 3rd November 2021 for stakeholders and members of the public to bring their comments. We received several memoranda. Most importantly, we had four key stakeholders led by the Council of Governors (CoG), the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA), the Office of the Auditor-General and the National Treasury, who appeared before us. We have put their comments and suggestions in our records. This is because we intend to move their amendments together with the ones Members have come up with so that we may achieve the objective of this Bill. The objective of ... view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. view
• 8 Jul 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise under Standing Order No.95. Going by the mood of the House, I request that the Mover be called upon to reply. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill 2021/22. My colleagues have talked a lot on this Bill. I wish to look at just two issues to add onto what they have said. The first one is as we look at the Bill; we find monies that are sent to the counties recurrent expenditure always surpasses the 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. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: ceiling. This is against the whole proposal of having 30 per cent recurrent and 70 per cent development. The maximum should be 50 per cent recurrent and 50 per cent development. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Looking at the county assemblies, there is the same issue of surpassing recurrent expenditure. As we continue looking through the expenditure of county assemblies, we realise that there are pending bills coming up. You wonder how county assemblies would accumulate such pending bills. The information I have come by is that the county assemblies hold their meetings in local hotels and do not pay. This is because when funds come to the counties, they are held by county governments and they do not release them immediately. Sometimes, they are used to hoodwink MCAs to support the governor or force them ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: The point I am making is that there should be structures such that when monies are sent to county assemblies, this is done directly and not through the county government executive because this will be better fiscal discipline. Right now, monies are sent to counties and they are not channeled to the intended pending bills. The money is diverted to be spent by the Executive on the recurrent expenditure which only suits the county executive. This has really affected the business people in the counties. Those are coming up local business people. They have borrowed loans from commercial banks to ... view