Elias Peter Mbau

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: The other use for the CDF is that every village, community and constituency occasionally is afflicted by certain emergencies or needs which would require to be addressed rapidly and without undue delays. Sometimes, it used to take the Government two weeks, a month, three months or even six months before it responds to an emergency that has taken place in a local area. With the existence of CDF, it is nowadays easy to ensure that when an emergency of a local nature takes place, say the collapse of a classroom, a bridge during heavy rains or such other emergencies, it ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: asked the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government:- (a) whether he is aware of a Pilot Flagship Project, to construct a retail/wholesale Market in Maragua as per the Vision 2030 Strategic Medium Term Plan (2008-2012) and that the Town Council of Maragua has already identified a 30-acre land for the purpose; and, (b) when the Government will commence construction of the project. view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Assistant Minister for that positive response. I decided to ask this Question because I had confirmed lack of progress in the project. I want to thank him because he has confirmed that, indeed, the wholesale fresh produce market project in Maragua, which is part of the Vision 2030 Agenda, will finally be set up. I want the Assistant Minister to confirm, now that I have assured him that the Maragua Town Council has, indeed, identified a parcel of land measuring about 20 acres on the main highway, what estimated budgetary provision we ... view
• 29 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I can confirm to the Assistant Minister that the land has been acquired. In fact, the Maragua CDF Committee has set aside 100,000 acres to help the local council to put up what we call beacons. Therefore, I am assuring you that there is land. Could he also assure me that, indeed, there will be budgetary provision in the next financial year? view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this chance to make my contribution to the Appropriations Bill for the financial year 2010/2011. This Bill is requesting a colossal sum of money. The expenditure for this financial year has hit an all time high of Kshs1 trillion. view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for your kind protection. You will note that this financial year’s Budget hit an all time high of Kshs1 trillion. Before we pass this Bill, it is becoming important to take stock of the programmes and projects that the Government envisioned to be undertaken in the financial year 2009/2010. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Minister is requesting for Kshs809,091,503,445. As hon. Members will recall, when the Minister delivered this year’s Budget Speech in this House, he read a financial statement which anticipated a total expenditure of Kshs998,825,016,824, of which the Consolidated Fund Services was ... view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: indeed represents a contingency, and I am not sure that this House is able to understand how such a contingency is administered because there is no explanation. Just as I mentioned last year, issues of the Civil Contingencies Fund require due attention at this point in time. The Civil Contingency Act provides for only Kshs2 billion. However, the Minister keeps on creating other Budget lines with different names, but which are, in fact, still part of the Civil Contingencies Fund. A typical case in point is the item on Budget reserve. As I mentioned last year, the Minister for Finance ... view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Looking at the past trend of capacities of various Ministries to utilize fully what is allocated to them, you will realize that there is serious lack of full capacity for utilization of that which is allocated to various development programmes and projects. We, therefore, will want to know with the Kshs1 trillion Budget allocation, to what extent will the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance be assuring this House that, come the end of the year, we shall not be having some Votes being over- utilized and some Ministries given more or less than what they had asked for ... view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you know that in March, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance also laid before this House various proposals of amounts to go to all these projects. In addition to telling us how he wants to spend this money, we also receive a public expenditure review as a statement to this House so that we are able to know what is happening. If not on a quarterly basis, then he could do so on an annual basis. We want to know how they utilized the money we voted for them the previous year. view
• 1 Sep 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, before I end, I want to mention that there are concerns also that the amount of Appropriations in Aid (A-in-A) is growing on an annual basis and yet, they are no proper mechanisms to conduct oversight over the same. Indeed, under the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons under this Bill, the amount requested relate to the Exchequer issues of Kshs639,525,246,648 and does not state clearly that there is another amount of Kshs169,566,256,797 worth of expenditures that are expected to be financed through A-in-A. It is for this reason that he should consider turning some of these ... view