Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Jan 2017 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. We must express our fidelity to the Constitution, both in spirit and letter. It is not just about the letter of this thing. I think the spirit of Article 123 is clear that with regards to the delegation, it is about a specific matter. That is what Article 123 (4) (b) says. So, where we have a letter in which the The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate view
• 5 Jan 2017 in Senate: Mr. Chairman, Sir, I have the greatest respect for my friend, Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., but I want to disagree and I want Sen. (Prof.) Anyang’-Nyong’o to pay a bit of attention here because the definitions of complementary; there are two aspects of that clause that I think Members may have disregarded which will change the meaning of this completely. One is on the complementary aspect and the other is the bottom aspect of it. The word that you defined as complimentary is with an ‘I’. The complementary used here with an ‘e’ has a completely different meaning. I want ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table:- Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget on the Petition by members of the SOCATT regarding the annulment of Regulations 25 (1), 37 and 38 of the Public Finance Management County Governments Regulations 2015. REPORT ON PETITION: REJECTED GARISSA COUNTY GOVERNMENT BUDGET ESTIMATES FOR FY 2016/2017 Report of the Senate Standing Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget on the Petition by Members of Garissa County Assembly on rejected Garissa County Government budget estimates for the Financial Year 2016/2017 view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have heard your statement on that. However, I want to clarify a couple of issues on Statements and Petitions before our Committee because the Member mentioned that many of them are with the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. He mentioned the two issues of El Nino and interest rates as the questions he had sought. The question on El Nino was discussed in this House and I presented the response. It may not have been satisfactory, but I presented it. The argument by the National Treasury was that money has been disbursed to Ministries to ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Senator for Trans-Nzoia County had sought to know a number of issues regarding county government funds which are held in banks that collapsed or were shut down by the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK); that is Imperial, Dubai and Chase banks. The Senator wanted to know the amount of funds from various The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I agree with the Senator that placing such huge amounts of funds in the banks is a major risk; this money could be lost. If Chase Bank did not open its doors, there would not have been a way to get this money. A total of Kshs836 million that belongs to the counties is a huge amount of money. The Controller of Budget and the National Treasury have no powers over the county governments with regard to opening of bank accounts in commercial banks or to superintend over how those accounts are run. It is the ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. He can take the answer I have given to the bank. This is the answer we discussed at our Committee this morning. view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you want the one that has been signed by the Kenya Deposit Insurance Fund (KDIF), I can table it later. It is not with me now, but we have the actual printout. I thought he wanted the details of the banks which I do not want to table because he wants to see the KDIF letter. This is the official answer because this is what we went through with our Committee and agreed to discuss today. There are two issues I want to quickly clarify. We have already written to the national Treasury, the Controller ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I also take this opportunity to thank the Chairperson for the speech. I also join him in congratulating the Cabinet Secretary (CS) for Education, Dr. Matiang’i, who has done pretty well in terms of supervising the examinations. This year, I send my congratulations to him and his entire team for the change. For the first time, we are told that there is no cheating in examinations and even released one month earlier than scheduled. Everything went smooth, and I think he played hard ball many times with those in the education sector. He has been called ... view
• 1 Dec 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the report of the Committee on the 2017 Budget Policy Statement. On behalf of the Standing Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and as required under our Standing Orders, we presented this Report to the Members to have a look at it. view