Erick Okong'o Mogeni

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• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, going forward I hope that it will be mandatory that own-source revenue should be collected digitally and we do away with the issue of manual collection because that is the easiest way of siphoning money that is meant to go to the accounts of the county governments to be used for giving services to the people. Finally, audit committees in our counties are not working. The MCAs do not understand that if you read the Constitution and the County Governments Act, they are the first port of call in ensuring that they oversight the governor and their ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: not want to oversight the executive. When you go to the counties, they will say the work of oversight is for the Senate. No! Let them read the Constitution. If our MCAs partnered with us to ensure that they do their work properly, in the work of over sighting our counties, we will have very little as the Senate to do. I hope that going forward the MCAs can discharge their constitutional mandate and oversight our county governments and the CECMs by periodically summoning them to appear before them to give them updates on projects. When they allocate money through ... 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 The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: I really support this Report as presented to the House. I hope we will approve it and allow other constitutional bodies to take further action on the recommendations that are contained in it. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: 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 governor who was in office between 2013 and 2017 is not re- elected the incoming governor will not pay the pending bills because of that being support of the previous governor. This makes ... 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: 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 The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: 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 project that own-source revenue should be about Kshs250 million, However, you will be shocked to note that we collect about Kshs94 million, meaning that a whooping Kshs150 million disappears ... view