Elizabeth Ongoro Masha

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 2571 to 2580 of 2683.

• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand to support this Bill. I want to draw the attention of this House to the objective of this Bill which reads in Clause 2:- “The object of this Act is to ensure that the authority conferred on the National Government to guarantee loans is exercised in a transparent, prudent and equitable manner, consistent with Article 213 of the Constitution”. In view of this, I do not find the provision then contained in Clause 4 consistent with the object of this Bill. It states:- “Subject to subsection (2), the Cabinet Secretary may guarantee the ... view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support this Bill. I want to draw the attention of the House to the objects of the Bill contained in Clause 2. Bearing that in mind, I want us to look at Clause 5(2b). It talks about the responsibilities of the Treasury in relation to the contingencies fund. It states that they will be required to pay from the Fund without undue delay all advance made under Clause 6. It is further subjected to Clause 7. Without overstating, this implies a lot of bureaucracy. I also want to emphasize the fact that ... view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Let me also draw your attention to Part III on County Emergencies and Government Emergency Funding. Clause 10(2) says: view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: “The purpose of an emergency fund is to enable payment to be made in respect of a county when an urgent and unforeseen need for expenditure arises for which there is no specific legislative authority.” I want to draw a parallel between this provision and the provision that we have in the CDF Act on the expenditure of emergency funds. If we are not careful and leave all this to the decision of the Cabinet Secretary, that he or she must convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that there is need for an emergency, when a County Assembly has already seen ... view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Lastly, I want to draw your attention to Clause 15 on page 1328, Clause 15(1). It says: “Within two months after a payment from the County Government Emergency Fund is made under Section 13, the County Secretary shall seek the approval of the County Assembly for payments”. view
• 25 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I find this quite contradictory. Why would you seek authority for expenditure when expenditure has already taken place actually two view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to support the Bill Due to constraint of time, I just want us to take note of Clause 36, which requires political parties to submit their party lists before nomination, but which is vague. It just says “at least before nomination”. So, a political party could choose to give its party nomination list a day before nomination. Can we fix time, so that we know whether it is 30 days before, so that if you are campaigning in your constituency, and you are number one in the party list, you can know where ... view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Can we, therefore, consider those suggestions? I beg to support. view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I am not aware that there is another hon. Ongoro in this House! Could you ask the Member to take his seat? view
• 24 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, could the Minister stop insisting on adopting my name? I rise to support this Bill that establishes the Environment and Land Court. Nothing can be more appropriate. If you look at Clause 3, you will find that the guiding principle of this Bill is to help us to deal with the backlog of the various land cases that are lying in our courts and also to help us to again find time to deal with the challenges that we are dealing with now because of the various offences that have been committed either by individuals or ... view