Chrysanthus Barnabas Okemo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I just want to emphasize the fact that if there is more interaction between the relevant Committees of Parliament and Ministries, we can achieve a lot and we can do it in a very short while. This was a big problem. In fact, it was a crisis. We even challenged the Vote on Account here. However, the fact that we have spend the whole morning and most of this afternoon with the Treasury officials, we have agreed on these numbers and we have solved two problems at once. One was to have the approved ... view
• 27 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In supporting this Procedural Motion, last week, when we were struggling to pass the Motion on Vote on Account, I did mention that it was unnecessary if only we could give ourselves a few days. Indeed, I think what the Minister has done is trying to do the right thing. The Motion that we passed on Vote on Account is now redundant as soon we do the Appropriations Bill tomorrow. So, actually we acted in vain. But I support the Procedural Motion. view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. During this morning’s session, the Speaker directed that the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade, the Budget Committee and the Minister for Finance hold a meeting to look at the proposed amendments to the Public Finance Management Bill. He directed that we go and meet, carry out the exercise and then come and report the progress to the House. That is what I would like to do now. view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have gone through a number of amendments but we are very far from completing them. Going by what we experienced in the short time we were together, I think we will need, at least, two days. We propose and we have agreed with the Ministry and the two Committees, that we continue with these meetings to look at the recommendations and amendments on Monday at 8.00 a.m. because Members are committed with workshops and other things and so they will not be available tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday. So, we would like to ask the House to ... view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I say what I was going to say before hon. Isaac Ruto came in with a clever manoeuvre? view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of reservations about the Motion that we are about to debate. I do so, having read the Constitution very carefully. The Budget process, as outlined in the Constitution, has not been followed. In fact, the only problem between debating this Motion and adopting what we are trying to say is just view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, they can happen in one or two days. What is so difficult? We have already been engaged, as Committees of Parliament, in terms of looking at all the Ministries’ Votes. Each Committee here represents various Ministries, and they have already approved the various Votes. So,--- view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, this is a very important Bill. It is anchored in Chapter 12 of the Constitution to be reduced to an Act of Parliament. It is a huge Bill but it has been rushed. There have not been sufficient in depth consultations between the Ministry and the two Committees. I have not even seen the Minister’s amendments. These amendments came last night so even talking about the afternoon is impractical. I think it is important that there should be sufficient consultations between the Minister, the Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and the Budget Committee. In ... view
• 21 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I just want to emphasize the point I made earlier that it is in the interest of the country and the interest of the Ministry of Finance that we engage sufficiently because all these sets of amendments are coming from so many different quarters particularly from the Departmental Committee on Finance, Planning and Trade and from the Budget Committee. If we engage the Minister, we are going to reduce all his amendments, our amendments and the amendments from the Budget Committee into one set of amendments which we shall agree upon. When we come to ... view
• 20 Jun 2012 in National Assembly: On a point or order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Just following up on what the Chairman of the Budget Committee has said, we need to understand the procedure as provided under the new Constitution. The Budget Estimates were presented by the Minister for Finance on 26th April, 2012 following which they were passed on to view