Billow Kerrow

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the inequality in Mandera County is so bad that apart from the fact that 88 per cent of the people of Mandera are living below the poverty level, 94 per cent of the people in Mandera have no access to electricity. So, if you look at the inequalities in this country, there is no other way of addressing it except through devolution. This forum that is being addressed in this Bill gives us an opportunity to focus our energies on building our counties. Therefore, I fully support it and urge those who do not understand what is ... view
• 21 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have heard what Sen. Haji has said. It is becoming very apparent that we are getting a very raw deal from the Ministry in charge of internal security in this country. Members have been asking for Statements, information and directions because insecurity has become a major problem from the central part of Kenya, to the north eastern part and everywhere else. I think it is demeaning when the Senator has to call officers in a Ministry and they promise him something but they do not do it. He did not even mention the Cabinet Secretary. He ... view
• 21 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. You heard the hon. Senator saying on the platform of this august House that if this Bill is not passed, Members of the Senate will commit suicide. Even in jest that is not acceptable, because Members of the Senate have a lot of other things to do, than just assisting in stabilizing the Governors to continue in office. view
• 20 Nov 2013 in Senate: Thank you Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise on a point of order to seek your guidance on a matter that is important to this House. It is in the public domain that a Motion on the draft Public Finance Management (Uwezo Fund) Regulations, 2013, proposed to be made by the Cabinet Secretary, National Treasury, is before the National Assembly for debate. Once it is debated, those regulations will be gazetted and form the basis for the operation of the Uwezo Fund. In these regulations, the Cabinet Secretary referred to Section 24 of the Public Finance Management Act which empowers him ... view
• 20 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. With all due respect to the hon. Senator, is he in order to really cast very negative aspersions on the people who are not here to defend themselves; that the investors that we see everyday in the media, from the investment conferences that are being held in all the counties, in fact, are briefcase and quacks; when none other than the President of the Republic graced one of those investment fora in Machakos? Is he in order to really discredit institutions, just to get support for the Bill? I think that ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the hon. Chairperson needs to clarify that point. When the Budget of the national Government was approved, the amount allocated for infrastructure, including roads, was in excess of Kshs180 billion. In her answer here, she talked about money not being allocated for some roads and lack of Exchequer releases. In other words, the vote has been made for those roads, but the Exchequer was not available. Could she clarify; if Kshs180 billion plus was allocated for infrastructure, where is that money? It is now the question of spending and not voting for the money because it was ... view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, you know this is not a House of rumours. You heard the Member say that she thought we were meeting. We were not meeting anybody from Treasury to discuss in-flows or out-flows of money. The question that the hon. Senator needs to explain from her Committee is; how much money was allocated by the national Government to roads in this financial years and how it has been spent. Why are those roads not being financed? That is what she needs to tell the House. It is not about the Kshs10 billion that is being refunded. view
• 19 Nov 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we had no meeting with the National Treasury. view