Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the worry I have here is that if you look at the composition of the Budget as it is today, a huge amount goes to the Recurrent Expenditure. We have expressed this concern before, year in, year out, whenever the Minister for Finance presents the Budget that we must move towards increasing the proportion of the budget amount available to Development and decreasing the amount for Recurrent because it is from Development that we will be able to create growth. But as it is, it looks like the situation has even been made worse because the ... view
• 13 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: So, I really want to ask the Minister and the Government in general that we must move directionally, to provide more for development than for recurrent. view
• 13 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we raised this in a different forum with the Minister. If you look at the Budget today, what you call discretionary expenditure, that is what the Minister is really free to spend or allocate, there is very little freedom because what comes from the Consolidated Fund Services, the Minister cannot do anything about it. This is because it is by law defined that, that money must be spent first before you do anything else. If you look at that component, it eats a very big chunk of the total budget. Whatever is left of it, ... view
• 13 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I ask myself the question: If the Government is talking about the Vision 2030 and has put benchmarks, are we really going to attain that growth if we continue to spend 97 per cent of our discretionary Budget on Recurrent Expenditure? I think this is a big challenge for the Minister for Finance. We would like to see growth, but not just growth per se . But we want growth with creation of employment. At the moment, we have a problem in this country. Even the times we have achieved very high growth rates, up ... view
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• 6 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have heard a variety of statements being made by different Ministers of Government about privatization of different sectors, including the sugar industry. I would like to know from the Assistant Minister when the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Finance will present the privatization programme to the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade as it is provided for under the law? We have been waiting for this for a long time. We get many statements indicating that privatization is going on. Yet, it is a requirement of the Privatization Act that ... view
• 6 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. We are aware that Ministers who belong to the Cabinet where these decisions are made have said publicly that the Cabinet has passed the privatization, particularly of the sugar sector. So, is the Assistant Minister in order to misinform this House that the Cabinet will first pass this decision before they come to the Finance, Planning and Trade Committee, while, in fact, the Cabinet has already done so? view
• 1 Apr 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this amendment because when you talk about democracy and you are talking about promoting democracy, there are cases where people maybe held hostage to parties that they do not want to belong to. They must have the freedom to move out if they so wish. I, therefore, feel that the only way we can increase democracy, particularly where there is no internal democracy within political parties, is to allow people to have the freedom to move out and be where they want to be. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Much obliged, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will do my best in those three minutes. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I have tried to understand the procedure that has been stipulated in the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008. I think it was clearly arranged in a manner that all stakeholders have got an input and that input will be recognized in the final document. Mr. Speaker, Sir, the consultations are too loud. view
• 16 Mar 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, looking at the Constitution of Kenya Review Act, 2008, the various stakeholders have been put there that will participate in this process. We have the Committee of Experts, the Parliamentary Select Committee, the National Assembly and the Referendum. At every stage, provision has been made for input from all sorts of people, particularly the Kenyan people. I believe that where we have reached, the Committee of Experts have received memoranda and all kinds of deliberations from the members of the public. The document that will come out of this exercise is supposed to be in the interest ... view