Cherarkey K Samson

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2024 in Senate: Where I come from, Nandi County, has hired 4,333 people and over 60 percent of money allocated to Nandi goes to wages, salaries and personal emoluments. We have argued with county assemblies, including Bomet, on whether Parliament and county assemblies should be subjected to 35 percent. Our thinking is that no, because, at the end of the day, most parliamentary work both at the county assembly level and national Parliament is recurrent. We do our work based on recurrent and based on staff. The view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: difference is that we do not implement or make roads and instead, we hire researchers and clerks and that is the essence we need to ensure. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: I would like to inform the House because I have had the pleasure of sitting in the Senate County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC) for almost seven years, the challenge we have and Senators should know this, is that the issue of the wage bill is becoming a serious issue. That is the point I am trying to make. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know Members of the National Assembly the other day were trying to vilify our addition of Kshs415 billion and yet, that is modest. The budget of the country is Kshs4.2 trillion. We should be blaming the National Assembly for delaying because Article 210 talks about latest audited accounts. It is the National Assembly that has taken long to ensure they update the latest audited accounts because we have been using accounts of Kshs1.2 to Kshs3 trillion. So, when we request for Kshs415 billion for counties, we are aware that there are challenges with counties and ... view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I know a story from your county in a village called Kiswahili, but the person who spoke did not know Swahili well, yet the village is called Kiswahili. It was about a swept bridge in that village. We want the money to go for development in counties. However, that one is not a justification to deny counties enough resources to do their jobs. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: We have a challenge with own-source revenue. There is a potential that has been given to counties by the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA). For example, in Nandi, it is Kshs630 million. I do not know for Makueni, but when Sen. Maanzo will be speaking, he will us the revenue potential. The question to ask counties, even Kakamega County is to improve on their own-source revenue, so that they do not depend only on the equitable share revenue that comes from Nairobi. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: The soft underbelly in the success of devolution is corruption. This is my free advice as I come to the tail end of my submissions. The National Assembly is the one that appropriates finances to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) through the State Department of Justice. The National Assembly should invite EACC to tell us what they are doing about the fight against corruption in counties and other sectors. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I saw in the news that EACC had recovered a property of over Kshs3 billion and they are targeting to recover Kshs7 billion. That is good, but we want to know who took this property so that we name and shame them. They should also be charged in a court of law. It is not enough to tell us that you have recovered illicit money or money that is not gotten properly. view
• 16 May 2024 in Senate: I challenge the National Assembly, especially their Justice and Legal Affairs Committee which is led by my brother, that the best way they can assist the counties is to put pressure on EACC to fight corruption in counties. We saw the fertilizer scandal by the County Government of Kenya and we want to know who was implicated. This is because, as we fight the bigger cartels in Nairobi, we should also fight the upcoming, growing and maturing cartels in counties through the EACC and other organs. view