Dr. David Eseli Simiyu

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for this opportunity. In fact, I had pressed my button sometimes back and I ran into another Motion. The Speaker then gave me a chance and I told him I did not want to contribute to the Roads Bill. It is this one that I wanted to contribute to. It really amuses me when we debate the Report of the PAC, which I am a Member. That is the ultimate of oversight for Parliament. However, it is usually amuses and embarrasses me, that, at the time when we were debating the Report, usually the ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Those were the ones that are given a disclaimer opinion, meaning there was total mismanagement of resources. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, we are becoming a bit more current with our PAC reporting although there has been frequent change of accounting officers. This led to a lot of confusion. So, you would find an accounting officer taking very long with us because they have to go back and dig up very many things. They have been changed so frequently until at one time, I asked one of them whether the frequent changes are deliberate. You know by frequently changing accounting officers, ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Another interesting reason for this poor performance of the budget was the numerous supplementary budgets. It is very interesting that even today, we were dealing with a Supplementary Budget. Supplementary budgets are playing havoc on how the budget is implemented in this country. This is in the sense that when we have budgeted for some project and it has been started, then a Supplementary Budget comes in, removes money from the project and puts it elsewhere, the other project stalls. So, we end up with stalled projects. These frequent supplementary budgets are not good for our financial wellbeing. We should ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: In any case, we, as Parliament, has disobeyed the law by agreeing to participate in these supplementary budgets. The law is very clear that you cannot introduce new projects in the middle of the financial year. That is in Article 223 of the Constitution. You cannot introduce new projects and yet that is what these supplementary budgets are doing. They are introducing new projects. Even Section 44 of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012 and Regulation 43 of the same bar the introduction of new projects in a supplementary budget. Actually this is playing havoc. As we all know, ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: So, I like what the Chair of the Committee on Implementation said that he is going to take up matters that this Report has raised. Even on a clear and obvious travesty of the law on procurement, somebody tries to justify his or her actions. You eventually realise that some of these procurements are, right from the word go, vendor-driven. Some of the projects are totally unnecessary, but because the vendor has convinced the department to procure, then they procure to suit what the vendor wants. That kind of behaviour is what has messed up this country for long. view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: I think the information is not needed because I never said supplementary budgets should not be brought to the House. I said it is very clear, even from our own Constitution, that you do not introduce new projects with a supplementary budget. That is a constitutional matter. It is not Dr. Eseli saying it. Again, it is clear in the Public Finance Management Act and the Regulations that you do not do that, but that is what we are doing! As we were investigating these matters, we found that one of the reasons we have poor implementation of our budget ... view
• 7 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I would like to congratulate you and Hon. Duale, the Leader of the Majority Party. I wish we had the same enthusiasm with regard to family values, Christianity and Islam when we are fighting thieves and tribalists. Otherwise, it all sounds like hypocrisy to me. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise on a matter of national importance. The coffee industry is very important in this country. However, as you notice, just like the tea industry, there are very serious problems vis-à-vis the pricing. One premier institution in the coffee industry is the Coffee Research Institute, which was previously called Coffee Research Foundation. I had a chance to visit there very recently and it is a shame. Its own coffee is blighted seriously by coffee berry disease. You cannot find employees. They just show up and go. When I tried to inquire, I was informed that ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I seek your direction that the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock takes up this matter urgently and brings a report to this House so that we can know whether, as a Parliament, we need to intervene to ensure the institution survives. As I speak, employees go for months without salaries. It is not in a very good situation. When I went there, compared to the times I have been there before, it looked like a ghost estate where nothing is going on. That is very dangerous. I believe the Departmental Committee on Agriculture and Livestock is up ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I would also like to add my voice in thanking the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the statement he has given to the House. I belong to the Health Committee and the Chair of the Budget and Appropriations Committee has talked about monitoring and overseeing the agencies under our care. We do that diligently. And I am happy the Chair also acknowledged that the Committees worked very hard during the budget-making process, sometimes burning the midnight oil and even missing going to our constituencies. But when we presented our recommendations ... view