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• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: How many minutes do I have? view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: I donate 10 minutes to Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. I will just sum up in the next five minutes. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri also raised the issue of having in place boards of management. I once visited an ECDE center in Tinderet. The building I saw was not commensurate with what was given as money spent. I hope, as Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri has properly stated, that this Bill now empowers ECDE centres to have their own boards of management. I hope that with that we will see proper utilization of resources that are sent to ECDE centres. On the issues of regulations, ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: There is not much on transition because we are dealing with existing educational centres and creating a new framework on the management of ECDEs and qualification of teachers. If you look at the preamble to the Bill, it is addressing issues of management, operations of boards, admissions to the ECDE centres and quality assurance. I do not think, Professor, that there is much on transition. I do not think that will be a challenge. With those many remarks, I beg to reply. I will be moving that you defer putting of the question, pursuant to Standing Order No.61(3). I now ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary speaker, with those very good remarks from Sen. (Prof. Kamar), I now wish to conclude replying. I beg that you invoke Standing Order No.61(3) and defer putting the question. Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. First, I really want to thank the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) for the good work that it has done and for presenting this 2,000 page plus report on the happenings in our counties. Devolution will never succeed unless we have prudent management of resources that are devolved to our counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, having listened to the issues that were raised by this Committee, there is no doubt that there is a lot that needs to be done. I hope that constitutional bodies that are meant to ensure that there ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: As we speak, most of us who talk to business people in our counties hear stories of counties failing to pay suppliers. Oftentimes, the reasons are that if you are not able to grease the hands of certain officers at the counties, you will never be paid for work done at the counties. This has been a serious issue. People have lost their properties. Those who took securities through banks to finance their businesses have had their houses or plots auctioned because of failure by counties to pay pending bills. In some instances, it is all about politics. If a ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: The other issue that was raised by this Committee and which is really important is the issue of project completion and variations. In my county, we have a stadium where we broke ground way back in 2014 and yet seven years down the line, this stadium has never been completed. It has taken over Kshs100 million of the funds that we send to our counties. This is unacceptable. If you start a project, you should complete it within time and any variation should be reasonable. It should not be so abnormal that you are not able to find funds to ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: but often times, you will find that there are issues of corruption that motivate variation of most of these projects. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I hope that this good work done that has been by the Committee that is chaired by my good friend Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri will not gather dust in the shelves of the Senate. I hope that the EACC and the DCI will get copies of this report and take action. The other issue is the wage bill. Most of our counties, as was rightly pointed out by the chairperson of CPAIC, are not able to undertake any development projects because the wage bill has ballooned, in some cases beyond 50 per cent, yet the law says that ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: The other issue is on own-source revenue. Most counties are not able to meet the targets. They are still using analog systems in revenue collection at the counties. The easiest way of siphoning money from own-source revenue is to ensure that you are analog. I remember when the County Government of Nairobi City had automated the collection of revenue digitally; they were able to collect more. The moment you make it analog, you open up leakages because people will print books and they will collect money that they do not surrender to the county. In my own county, Nyamira, we ... view