Member of National Assembly Edith Nyenze

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute. Let me take this opportunity to support the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No. 30 of 2021). view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: From the outset, I support devolution because we can all see what it has done. It has transformed our country. Health centres and infrastructure can be seen in our counties and the whole region. Health, water and many other functions are devolved. The youth and people all over The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: the country engage in various businesses. People are now getting contracts and employment in the county governments. There is a lot of improvement in our country because of devolution. So, I support devolution. Devolution came with some issues which we need to improve. If we improve devolution and county governments improve their performance, and if there are good governance policies in the county governments, our country will improve like other countries which have developed very fast. I went to Dubai and when I came back, I realised I had come from a developed country. When I looked at the infrastructure ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Another problem in our county governments is bloated wage bills. You find a county government where a governor loses in the general election, but his personal employees are absorbed in the new government and get paid. That way, with time, we end up with a bloated wage bill. County government money is misused instead of being used for development. So, there is need to come up with a proper structure, so that if people were employed in the previous government, they continue serving instead of a new governor employing new employees and still retain the ones he found in office. ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: We have also devolved corruption to the county governments. There is a lot of corruption in the county governments. This makes us to lag behind. We end up with pending bills. People are given contracts in some counties, but some are paid while others are not. Those who are not paid take the matters to court. The county governments end up paying high litigation fees to lawyers to represent them in court as development suffers. If we could have a structure like that of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), where the amounts for development and recurrent expenditures are ... view
• 16 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Bill. view
• 6 May 2021 in National Assembly: I vote yes. view
• 25 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I stand to support the deliberations of the Committee. These are times where technology is really improving on high speed and it is good to keep making amendments especially on our laws so that we can embrace the new technology and the new world in our deliberations. Therefore, I support. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing this Bill. It is long overdue. If KNLS was established in 1967 and we are in 2021, the Bill is actually long overdue. Today, we live in a world of instant communication through access to the internet. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Feb 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me take this opportunity to thank the Leader of the Majority Party for bringing this Bill. It is long overdue. If KNLS was established in 1967 and we are in 2021, the Bill is actually long overdue. Today, we live in a world of instant communication through access to the internet. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view