Dr. Bonny Khalwale

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I would like to welcome my colleagues after a well deserved working holiday where they were very busy working in committees. Mr., Speaker, Sir, I must congratulate, the Senator for Bomet, Sen. (Prof) Lesan, for having seen the wisdom of pursuing this route of bringing this matter to Senate. We would like Kenyans to appreciate the one institution in this country which remains professional in sorting out these kinds of disputes is the Senate. Members of the public should be encouraged to pursue this route, because those of us who have been following events ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am glad to confirm that blah blah is not unparliamentary. However, I simply meant that it is neither here nor there. It has come with a lot of disappointments to many Kenyans, that after all that effort in Makueni, after millions of shillings were spent in that particular commission, it has come to naught. We want to encourage the public to approach the Senate because it is quite clear that the executive is too busy with The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to lay the following Papers on the table of the Senate today, 15th Tuesday September, 2015. Report of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statement of the County Government of Turkana for the sixteen months period ended 30th June 2014; 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
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I hear the distinguished Senator. In the reports where they are talking of 16 months, they are including the period that is so called the transition period when the governors came in and the whole financial year and it adds up to 16 months. There are those four months. But in those particular counties where e have a report covering 16 moths, it means that the auditor, in the interim audit reports that were tabled - the respective counties had not been reported on. So he decided to combine them and give them in one report. ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Can you point to the specific ones so that I speak to them. view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Yes Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, because there is an issue of records and I come from a professional background. I would like that whatever I utter is factual. view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, allow me to start with the clarification sought by the Senator for Mandera County. Yes, the Constitution speaks to this; that six months after the end of every financial year, the Auditor-General should have completed the audit and the audited reports tabled in this House. The law further provides that within six months from the time the reports are tabled here, this House should have made a decision on those particular audited accounts, by either approving them with or without amendments or rejecting them. I agree with you. We have pursued this matter with the Auditor-General ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, thank you for protecting me. The Senator for Migori, a distinguished senior doctor in this country, knows that a chair of a committee is under obligation to respond to all points of order, so long as they have been found admissible by the Chair. In conclusion, I assure the public that the answers might not come immediately but they sure will. To speak to the issue of rapid release of results and bringing them to this House, we cannot take shortcuts. The law expects that every governor must be heard on every audit query. You cannot ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is true that the Samburu County accounts have not been tabled. However, as the House will recall, before we went on recess, I confirmed to you that 35 accounts of county executives had been concluded and endorsed by the Auditor-General. I also confirmed that 34 accounts of county assemblies were also complete. Now, in the intervening period of one month or so that we have been away, this is when the reports are now coming. All I have to do is do a follow-up and indicate to you in the coming days how soon the ... view
• 15 Sep 2015 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, it is true that amongst others, there is a special audit report that was requested for by our Committee on Public Accounts and Investments on the County Government of Trans Nzoia after the members of the public petitioned us. The procedure is that as soon as the Auditor-General is through with that special audit, he will not table it in this House because it is not this House that asked for it. We asked for a special audit as a Committee to help us report back to this House on the Petition that was tabled by ... view