Dr. Enoch Kibunguchy

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I support it, but I know there is danger ahead. One of the dangers ahead is that I do not know how county governments will manage to pay their part of the bargain in PPP where each partner contributes something. The donors might give you their money and you might have to give something. Of course, they will tax people to recover their money. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: What has happened over the years is that gradually, the local revenues counties governments raise are going down year in, year out. Counties are not raising anything near what the old county councils used to raise. I read a paper that said that they are raising 15 per cent of what used to be raised then. How are we going to shoulder our part of the bargain of the PPP? That is the question we need to answer. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Again, when we got devolution, the drafters of the Constitution, in their wisdom, gave most of the functions to the counties, which are close to the people. They gave them agriculture and food, which are very close to the people. They were given the function of water which is again very close to the people. Water is life. They gave them the function of health and others. Again, I was excited then and I said that it was a good thing because it would be a government that is close to the people and will understand them. But what has ... view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: As we go forward, I would like to urge all of us who think well for the country and that devolution must work, to find a way where the money that is concentrated at the county headquarters finds its way down. We can only do that if we put in place a law so that we have yet another one step of devolution down. As we probably go to a referendum to look at the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Constitution, that is one aspect that we need to examine. We have gone through it and we feel that all the procurement and tenders are at the county headquarters. People do not feel their governments as much as they ought to. In fact, and I think you will agree with me, people on the ground tend to feel the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) more than the county governments yet these are governments that get billions of shillings from the national Government. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Coming back to the Bill, it is excellent. We have seen examples where PPPs have worked very well. I am a Member of the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning and our Vice Chair mentioned the hostels at Kenyatta University. We know that we have wind power generation in Turkana. It has been hampered somewhere. Those are some of the questions we need to ask as we dissect the Bill. We would like to know why some of the programmes that are beneficial to the country get bottlenecks along the way. view
• 17 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: There are areas, especially urban centres or towns that are being chocked by garbage. Nairobi, Mombasa and Nakuru and even my town, Kakamega, are some of them yet we have experts who tell us that garbage can be turned into electricity or fertiliser. Now that this law will come into place, these are areas that will benefit the people. Finally, let me say something on the issue of natural resources and what is natural. Every county has something to boast about. This PPP will allow us to tap into that and exploit the natural resources that are in our respective ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Let me start by asking the Energy Committee a question. For this Committee to help this country, we must be able to answer one question. Why is energy very expensive in this country? We should be able to answer that question. Is it because of production or the monopoly of the Kenya Power Company? We have to answer that. As you know, when energy is expensive, then the cost of production of goods and services become very expensive. We are not competitive like our neighbors and other countries in this continent. As you know, and I think many studies have ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: prisons are clogged by people who have committed petty crime. Why do we not have those people planting trees in this country? Why do we not have students planting trees in this country? Yet when you see things happening on television, it is just like people want to have a show. We have seen staff of the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) going to plant trees in Karura Forest, accompanied by photographers and television crews. We can never plant trees in this country when we go that direction. So, let us be serious. Finally, some of the colleagues in this Parliament ... view
• 11 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: We are going to plant trees. If we sit here and think we are going to survive in this country without planting trees, we are cheating ourselves. We will be living in what the English people call ‘fool’s paradise’. We must plant trees. Let us do it as a policy, as a deliberate move. I would even like to see chiefs, assistant chiefs and all these cadres of people, one of their appraisal points being how many trees they have planted in their areas of jurisdiction. Unless we do that, we are going nowhere. I was talking about hydro. I ... view