Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: It is disheartening that you would go to some counties and find people asking questions about devolved functions. They ask either the Senator or the Member of the National Assembly those questions and they have absolutely no answers. So, you start looking like a fool who does not know what is going on. So, this forum will accord the Members a chance to participate in what is going on. It will be a very good forum for the Members of the National Assembly because one will know which areas to expend his or her CDF on and which areas not ... view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: It is disheartening that you would go to some counties and find people asking questions about devolved functions. They ask either the Senator or the Member of the National Assembly those questions and they have absolutely no answers. So, you start looking like a fool who does not know what is going on. So, this forum will accord the Members a chance to participate in what is going on. It will be a very good forum for the Members of the National Assembly because one will know which areas to expend his or her CDF on and which areas not ... view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second the Report. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those few remarks, I beg to second the Report. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 3 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to support the amendment. The reason for this amendment is informed by what Members actually had elucidated on the Floor of the House, in the sense that it touched on some constitutional matters. We had suggested that devolution of health be reversed. This appears to have been too drastic a measure or recommendation from the Committee. We felt that this could be ameliorated by removing the idea of reversing the devolution. view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Devolution of health care should continue, but there should be a way of ensuring that what we are devolving is healthcare and not something else. This is because what happened was that when we went out in the counties to look at health facilities what we found was very distressing. Many counties had not even given the conditional grants to the Level 5 hospitals. This was the case yet those hospitals are in a deplorable condition. This shows that quite a number of county governments were not ready for the devolved health services as they were presented to them at ... view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we are fully aware that this probably happened because the Government felt if it devolved a function and said that County “A” can get this function but County “B” cannot get it because it is not ready for it, then one governor might feel that he had been demeaned before his own electorate. Perhaps, that was what informed the decision to devolve all the functions at once to all the counties. Even though we understand that position, we would like to ameliorate it by ensuring that now that the function has been devolved the counties that have difficulties ... view
• 2 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: We found very interesting situations. In fact, devolved healthcare in some places - I will not mention where - is being treated like the proverbial milk cow. People order many things on paper and then tell the people on the ground or in the hospitals to sign that they have received them when they have not received anything. In other words, the healthcare sector is becoming a major devolution of corruption. We cannot allow that because healthcare is critical. It is one of the planks of devolution. We felt that perhaps the Executive had been arm-twisted by the governors. Of ... view