4 Mar 2021 in Senate:
With those many remarks, I support.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for this opportunity to contribute to the Statement by my colleague Sen. Kasanga on child abuse. Yes, it is true that our country is a signatory to many international treaties on the care and protection of children. In most cases, we do not even adhere to the treaties which we have signed. That needs to be done. Mr. Speaker, Sir, it is also true that a line needs to be drawn between what is child abuse and what is bringing up children? As Sen. M. Kajwang’ has just said, I remember very well when most ...
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I thank you for this opportunity to also make a contribution on this Motion by CPAIC. I will begin by thanking the Committee for compiling this Report and tabling it for debate.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
There are serious and fundamental questions that all of us need to engage in, as far as this and other reports by the same Committee are concerned. We are dealing with the report of the Financial Year 2014/2015. The report is here seven years down the line, observations have been made and recommendations put forward. So, what?
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the level of misappropriation and misallocation of public funds in all counties is legendary. How these auditors, both the Auditor-General and our own Committee, come up with some of the recommendations and observations, is very baffling.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
As Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said, there is a tendency in many counties where fire just has a way of finding its way into finance offices. It is just amazing how finance offices get burnt, documents are destroyed, and that is it. When you ask for evidence of allocation of resources, you are told that those documents were consumed in the fire that gutted the finance offices. You ask for backup and they say that they had not procured a backup system by the time the fired gutted the premises. That is where the story ends.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I pray to the Almighty God that he will give us longevity of life. In around 2030, 2040, or 2050, when the Senate of the Republic of The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Kenya will be debating the audit reports for the 2017/2018 Financial Year, I want to see what they will say about particular investments in my own county. I think very few people in this country do not know something called Kitui County Textile Center (KICOTEC) in Kitui County. Just scratching the surface of it, you will open a can of worms for a lot of things and many people. In the first place, an investment that continues to take up public resources when it was established even before Kitui County Assembly passed the necessary enabling law. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, ...
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am still awaiting those responses, but truth be said, there appears to be serious connivance between county governments and the CoB and the Auditor General. Unless we find a way of making sure that before counties spend these monies proper due diligence and fiscal analysis of projects and consultations is done, governors should not just be allowed to invest public finances the way they want.
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3 Mar 2021 in Senate:
Lastly, yes, we could have been reduced to just being morticians in dealing with the reports of CPAIC, but there is a matter that has been raised on the Floor here on where accountability is when it comes to even our own Sessional Committees on CPAIC? It would be important that as we think through maybe reconstituting that Committee, serious thinking goes into it. We should ensure, as has been suggested by my colleagues, that when we finally do those exit reports by Committees, all CPAIC Committees from 2017-2022 will give exit reports for each county, for example, Kitui, Nairobi ...
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