Charles Reubenson Kibiru

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Article 217(1) of the Constitution demands that we need to do exactly what the Motion seeks, which is to determine the basis for revenue allocation among the counties. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: The Tenth Parliament, in November, 2012, determined the revenue sharing formula for Financial Years 2013/ 2014, 2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. The Eleventh Parliament, in 2016, determined the revenue sharing formula for the Financial Years 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and 2019/2020. The two have been in existence. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: This Motion seeks now to request the Senate to determine the revenue sharing formula for the Financial Years 2020/2021 to 2024/2025. As it were, Article 216 (1) the Constitution provides the principal function of proposing the revenue sharing formula to the Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA). The Commission tabled a proposal to the Senate on 30th April, 2019. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Further, Article 217 (2) of the Constitution provides that in determining the basis of revenue sharing under Clause 1, the Senate shall— (a) take the criteria in Article 203 (1) into account; (b) request and consider recommendations from the Commission on Revenue Allocation; (c) Consult the county governors, the Cabinet Secretary responsible for finance and any organization of county governments; and, (d) invite the public, including professional bodies, to make submissions to it on the matter. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Pursuant to this provision, the Committee in considering the Third Basis for Revenue Allocation Among the County Governments, invited a number of stakeholders. We had the CRA, Council of Governors (CoG), the National Treasury, county governments, Institute of Certified Public Accountants (ICPAK), International Budget Partnership (IBP), Kenyan Chapter, The Institute of Social Accountability (TISA), and the general public who were invited to give their views on the basis for revenue sharing. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, some Senators and their county assemblies submitted their memoranda. I, for one, did, and I think one other Senator. Over the period, we have held a Kamukunji to deliberate on these issues. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: In sharing all the revenue and resources, a number of issues were and are to be considered. One of the issues we considered as a Committee is the parameters that had been proposed by the CRA, which were given different weights. The parameters include: health, agriculture, urban services, roads and other county services. view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if you allow, I will just try to mention, to cut across because I know Senators will be debating these issues. There has been a lot of consultation, where Senators were invited to Hotel Kempinsky. The CRA took us through the processes they were considering in arriving at some of these parameters. At the same time, we were invited to the Bomas of Kenya and taken through how they arrived at some of these parameter and they went through the econometrics and the statistics of trying to give weight, to ensure that there is both equity and ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: The first parameter that the CRA proposed was health, which we adopted as a Committee and gave it a weight of 20 percent. This is a devolved function and, as we all agree, is one of the thorny issues that are facing our counties. We have seen strikes and deplorable situations in our counties because of the health issues. They say a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. As the Senate, we want to make the counties more sustainable when it comes to issues of health. In this regard, we looked at the health parameter and gave it 20 per ... view
• 28 Jul 2020 in Senate: involves farming in whatever nature, the parameter takes care of the services, more so, the extension services. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other parameter is ‘Other County Services.’ This is a parameter that includes functions which are practised by the county governments. Among this is pre-primary education, the Early Childhood Development and Education (ECDE), the village polytechnics, homecraft centers, children facilities, cultural activities and public entertainment, like bullfighting in Kakamega and the likes. This parameter is taking care of issues of drugs, pornography and so on. We gave this parameter 16 per cent, so that counties can offer services and even ... view