Cyprian Kubai Iringo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, for giving me this opportunity. I also echo and support what my colleagues have said. Sometimes, when we give monies to the Ministry of Health or any other arm of the national Government, we tend to blame county governments. But we do not give them that money. That is because they are on the ground and they are the ones who are feeling the heat of serving our people, patients and paying salaries. The national Government sits on a lot of money and we do not know what that money does. My humble request ... view
• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. Forgive my brother for mistaking your gender. I stand to support my brothers from Tharaka Nithi County. When you hear of Tharaka Nithi County or Meru County, you think that you are in Canaan. Tharaka Nithi is worse than Lamu County which you are talking about. More so, they have a new headquarters at Kathwana which started from scratch and, to date, they are still putting it up. Why do we give monies to some counties while others are left without money to complete their headquarters? I know that Meru County was given peanuts ... view
• 18 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: I support my brothers from Tharaka Nithi County. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this important Motion. From the outset, I want to say this process is a national duty which we are performing today, so that we can please the country or give okay for the country to spend funds for development. The budget process was exclusively the domain of the National Treasury, but with the current constitutional dispensation, Parliament has been given the onerous task of participating in this important exercise. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We will do our mandate as Parliament and apportion funds to the ministries and the bodies which need to spend the money. This country is experiencing a lot of bottlenecks, especially when it comes to releasing funds to different projects and programmes. We passed the budget last year, but to date, most of the funds are lying in ministries because they have not been used. On 30th June, some ministries will have absorbed 50 per cent, 60 per cent or even less than 50 per cent. That is very unfair for the citizens of this country because we cannot move ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Some ministries are unable to absorb the funds and the funds are taken back to the National Treasury. The accounting officers are so sluggish in doing the projects. I attribute this mostly to corruption where I even have some personal experience. Funds were allocated to a road in my constituency in the last Parliament. The money took three years to be disbursed to the project because some unscrupulous officers sat on the money until they got the contractor who gave them their 10 per cent, 5 per cent or whatever figure they wanted. view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We talk of donor funds which are amounts bequeathed to the National Treasury and the money is there. However, you find that the programme does not take place because the people who are supposed to do the procurement exercise, evaluate and get contractors do not prioritise it. Before they do that, they sit down somewhere in a hotel to make sure that they get their cut so that the work can be done. That is very unfair to this country. We will pass this budget, but I urge the National Treasury, through the Cabinet Secretary, to see that if funds ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: We considered the Supplementary Budget yesterday which should have come much earlier. We are doing it in the 11th hour together with the next financial year’s budget because somebody somewhere is not fast-tracking it. When you go to the electorate, they blame the Members of Parliament because everybody finds them at fault, but they do not see the rot which is in our ministries. Therefore, in as much as we are talking of expediting the budget process, the committees which oversee the various ministries should oversee them critically. We should look into this matter so that if we release funds, ... view
• 12 Jun 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the President’s Address. view