Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Sep 2015 in Senate: My apologies, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I should look straight ahead, just in case my observation can be misconstrued to suggest that there are people whom I support. I think it is important that we really build the future of this country and also set the foundation for this House by bringing these amendments to the final conclusion. I think we must do more and roll up our sleeves in the next three months, or six months to do our job seriously in this regard. view
• 17 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the apology by the honourable doctor, whom I did not know was still practicing, is too late and misplaced. There is no other organ other than the Kenya Medical Practitioners and Dentists Board (KMPDB), which he is a member of, which licenses medical practitioners. The Board is singularly responsible for the proliferation of qualified or purportedly qualified and unqualified people practising medicine. In fact, it is the Board that has the culture of allowing people who are semi- qualified or, in fact, not qualified at all to practise. So, an apology is not enough. The Board ought ... view
• 17 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am actually surprised about what the Senator for Kakamega has read where he talks of financial statements. To the best of my knowledge, there are no financial statements of any county that has been submitted to this House. The reports which were submitted before we went for recess are the financial reports of the executive and the finical reports of the assemblies. Those are audit queries or irregularities. A statement showing the income and expenditure of a county, showing how much income or revenue that county earned or received, how much expenditure was on salaries, how ... view
• 17 Sep 2015 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I appreciate what the Chairperson has said on the last item on the need to determine the assets and liabilities of counties first. Let me bring to your notice that although TA has actually obtained the inventory of all the assets and liabilities in all the counties, the issue has been an audit of the same for which they have not been able to do for lack of financing or whatever. However, I think in financial audit, the procedure is that the Auditor-General can still take on the current assets and liabilities ... view
• 17 Sep 2015 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. The Chairman’s response is a gross understatement of the crisis that we have in learning institutions. I do not know whether the Chairperson lives in this country. To suggest that learning is going on in most institutions in this country, I think is to play on the intellect of the people of Kenya. The teachers are at home and there is no learning going on. If learning means having students play in school and sending security personnel to look after the children playing in the school, then I think we have people who are ... view
• 16 Sep 2015 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support this Motion. I think as a nation, for the last 50 years, if there is one thing that Kenyans have agreed on, in all our successive governments, is to give education a priority. So, that in all our financing, in all budgetary allocations in this country for the last 50 years, nearly a third of our national revenue has always gone to education. This is the seriousness with which the successive governments have taken education, as our top priority national interest. However, the need to address this issue is a national one. I ... view
• 16 Sep 2015 in Senate: I will take it. view
• 16 Sep 2015 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, that Statement is a fact because the issue about the improprieties in the Budget-making process by the National Assembly in which the Budget was based on political and other patronage other than---- I agree with him. I support. view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me also join my colleagues in welcoming everyone from recess and thank them for the good job that the Committees have been doing. Mr. Speaker, Sir, on this Petition, I thank the Senator for Bomet, because we have been alive to this issue of Bomet budget-making process and I think it is important that it came here. I just want to point out two things regarding the budget process. That any budget that is approved by the County Assembly when it is being forwarded to the Controller of Budget, it must be accompanied by a ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you noted carefully, the papers that were tabled, there is need for the Member to clarify three or four items. When he was laying the one for Marsabit and Turkana counties, he was laying financial statements for county governments. For Marsabit, it is for a year and a year means 12 months, ended 2014. For Turkana, it is 16 months period ending 2014. Why is there a disparity that it ends 12 months and another one 16 months, yet the audits for the four months of 2013 were concluded last year? The second point, for ... view