Elias Bare Shill

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I would like to begin my contribution by saying that I fully support the Bill as it is. First, we must respect the Senate because they are the ones who deal with county issues. I would like to say categorically that men and women who are in the Senate are people with integrity and have worked as legislators before. So, what have they done? They found that there were some difficulties in the way the counties were being administered. We are all aware that a lot of money is stuck in the governors’ places. So, they are trying to help. ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: sharing resources--- The funds are stuck at the county headquarters after being devolved from Nairobi. They thought that the best thing is to have inclusive participation or consensus which is a key that enhances governance. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, even some years ago, we used to have the District Development Committees and Sub-District Development Committees, and Parliamentarians and the Executive used to participate in those committees. What is wrong with that? There is nothing wrong with that. I know what the fear is. The fear is that some Members think that the CDF will be eaten up. Get away from that fear. That money is too little and we want to get bigger money so that people can participate. It is better to have a group of people trying to look into things. Giving priority to projects ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I am really surprised because some Members are now turning back on these things. We are saying that we cannot interfere with the budget process of the county. Are we not trying to look at the National Budget in this House? We find out what they are doing, the rationale and what have you. We are not doing the nitty-gritty things. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we know that this is the first time we are doing a trial with county governments. We know that we have diverse people and we also know what happened during the elections. Some groups ganged up against others to win the elections and we want to safeguard them so that they get the right projects rather than being marginalized. So, there should be no fear about that one. We do not want people to be marginalized. What will we do in that Board? We are not trying to macro-manage the governors but we are looking at the projects ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: We have been told by the Auditor-General that some governors carry petty cash of Kshs30 million when people do not have water, which is essential. So why hide? We were all elected by the people. Let us try and see things in a different manner. We know that there is separation of power but all of us are concerned to make sure that things are being done in the right way and we must be very careful. This is because this is a new dispensation and people have not learnt the nitty-gritty of doing things.We know that many governors have ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: So, we are now treading on dangerous things. We know the county assemblies have also been marginalized. They are marked animals. They are not doing their jobs because they have been marginalized. So, when we have everybody, it is good. At the ward level, why should I refuse my people to decide what kind of projects they want? The wearer of the shoe knows where it pinches. Let it start from the ward, then to the constituencies and then we go to the counties. Therefore, we will get the best out of our The electronic version of the Official Hansard ... view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: money. We know why people are building big airports or opening missions abroad. We are not in that level. That is why we are saying that we do not want to hear 48 governments. We know there is one national Government and the other ones are devolved governments. They are not big governments. We know that they have limited departments that they are handling. We want people to be given services. So, this issue of arguing who is powerful than the other, is not there. The essence is to share resources. view
• 5 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I agree with one Member who has said that there is a lot of duplication. Even in my county, out of 28 projects, 13 are duplicated. Somebody wakes up one morning and includes certain projects and you can see that, that is being duplicated. Those are the kind of abuses that we want to curb. Therefore, I support this Bill. I do not want any amendment on this Bill. I want it to be passed as it is. view
• 26 Feb 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support the amendment of the Bill on the Equalization Fund. I also want to join other Members who have spoken. Kenya has just celebrated 50 years of Independence. It is half a century old. Half a century are many years. It is only in 2010 after the passing of the Constitution that this country has recognised that there are marginalized areas and, therefore, we must give them Equalization Fund. I thank Kenyans for passing that Constitution. view