Benjamin Jomo Washiali

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I will quickly thank Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah-led Committee for this Budget Report and add my voice in thanking the Committees despite the fact that they were on recess when they met the relevant Ministries to ensure that this Report is concluded. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Why do we budget after every financial year? In my position as a Member of Parliament representing the people of Mumias, I have a very strong feeling that we budget because we want to achieve some certain policies that the Executive and the party in Government has adopted. For example, you will realise that currently the policy of Government is to establish a Competency- Based Curriculum (CBC). This has gone a long way to promoting technical knowledge. If you look at this Budget you will find that we have only allocated Kshs4 billion to the Technical Vocational Education and Training ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: This is important because as a country and given what I have heard, we are budgeting to fund a policy of Government or party in position. The CBC for us is what we feel strongly as a party and Government that this country needs. I have heard many other quarters and major stakeholders like teachers wanting to be involved in the development of this curriculum. I was wondering why that is so because it is the ministry which employs, pays and gives them work to do yet, they want to control it. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I want to thank the President for coming up with a major policy shift in terms of focusing on manufacturing, housing, food security and universal healthcare. I am talking briefly so that I can cover as much ground as possible. Looking at this Budget, you will not see clearly how much has been put for the purpose of manufacturing. You will not see clearly how much has been put for housing. Since this to me is a major policy shift, it should have come out clearly that in manufacturing, we are going to do this and that because of this ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Look at Western Kenya, for example, many of the companies that were there have collapsed whether private, public or semi public. So, when we are talking of manufacturing agenda, what does it mean to the people of Western Province? This has not been clearly addressed. I hope in future it will be clear. There is even the aspect of public participation. I think as Parliament we failed in involving the public in the Budget issues. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for the extra one minute. I am sure all Members will agree with me that as Parliament the way we approached the public in terms of contributing to this Budget, leaves a lot of questions for us to answer. The team that came to Kakamega had only a few Members who participated and yet this is a national Budget which we should have worked on very well in terms of public participation. This would have involved as many Kenyans as possible. I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support but before I do so, I also join my colleagues in wishing the Muslim community Eid Mubarak . Muslims usually join us when we observe Christmas, the birth of our saviour, Jesus Christ. Of course, we need to also join them when they are celebrating. I agree with my colleagues, the earlier speakers, who said that this Bill is long overdue. I thank the Mover, Hon. Duale, for fast-tracking this Bill. A wrong and a wrong do not make a right. You will realise that the Bills we refer ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The consultations were a bit loud. That is why I was not being heard. I was just saying that there is a lot that goes on in the counties. We have to contend with the Kshs9 billion of pending bills today. They are bills of contracts which were not looked at by officers who have been trained to do this job. For the counties to even claim that they are going to pay the bills, it is important that those bills are verified again to ensure that the agreements in respect of the bills ... view
• 4 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I agree with Members who contributed much earlier on this small Bill. When it comes to Third Reading, some of us will propose amendments, especially to Part II, Clause 4, which has an open-ended provision for hiring. It is not clear who will work under these officers. This kind of allowance has been abused by some of our governors, who went ahead to hire officers who may not add value to the counties. The part says: “… such other number of county legal counsel as the county attorney may, in consultation with the County Public Service Board, consider necessary.” That ... view
• 9 May 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. Hon. Deputy Speaker, on behalf of the Leader of the Majority Party, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: view