Erick Okong'o Mogeni

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• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion- AWARE that the Senate, on 16th July 2015, resolved to establish an ad hoc Committee to inquire into the status of County Headquarters and identify the needs of each of the forty-seven counties, which would form the basis for possible assistance to the identified counties; RECALLING THAT the ad hoc Committee on County Headquarters tabled its Report in the Senate on 3rd December, 2015, in which it recommended that 11 Counties be supported as follows: (1) Those in dire need and requiring immediate assistance („AA category‟): Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, Tana ... view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: COGNIZANT THAT following the said resolution of the Senate, conditional grants have been advanced to the five counties classified under the „AA category‟ during the financial years 2017/2018, 2018/2019 and further allocations have been budgeted for the Financial Year 2019/2020; CONCERNED THAT to date, no allocations have been made by way of conditional grants to the six counties identified as requiring assistance under „A Category,‟ and that these counties continue to experience grave challenges in terms of infrastructure that have hampered their operations; AWARE THAT the said counties are at various stages of putting up the infrastructure required to make ... view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I have had the privilege of visiting a few counties. I want to give an example of Bomet County. It has a county headquarters which somebody, even if it is a tourist visiting the county, would identify and know it as the headquarters of the County Government of Bomet. We gave our counties the title “county governments.” This is a government. We have two levels of government in this country; the national and county governments. Therefore, the name that has been given to our counties should reflect the image of the headquarters of a government. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is not right that six years after the inception of devolution, we still have county governments that are being housed by the national Government. It is, therefore, important that the Senate Committee on Devolution and 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. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Intergovernmental Relations visits our counties to ascertain those that are in need, especially those under Category A and C. This would be to see if, in accordance with Article 216 of our Constitution, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) can extend some financial support to the headquarters. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the key thing in devolution is to ensure that service delivery is made easier and accessible to the people who reside in our counties, whom we serve and represent here. However, it does to make sense for county headquarters and the various key departments to be scattered all over in various buildings in town. That is the case we have in Nyamira County. It is only our governor, county secretary and the deputy governor who have space within the offices of the County Commissioner. If he wants to consult his County Executive Committee (CEC) Member for Finance, ... view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, if the governor is at his offices and wants to get answers, it does not make sense. This is because the governor has to wait for somebody to take another 25 minutes to come all the way to the office. Therefore, to enhance service delivery, it makes a lot of logic, sense and efficiency to ensure that counties have their headquarters where key departments are housed in the same building as the governor. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, in the case of Nairobi County, if a person travelled to this country from Europe and he or she drives through the County Government of Nairobi, he or she will see by the face of that building that they are driving by the county headquarters of the County Government of Nairobi County. That is not the case in Nyamira County. In fact, it is sad that in Nyamira County, you will not notice where the county government is housed. This is because the face that a person sees is that of the national Government. They are the ... view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I was in Kericho County three weeks ago where I saw a fantastic building that has been put up by the County Government of Kericho. When you enter into the building and the office of the governor, you get the impression that you have entered the office of the president of that county government. That is the image that we want to see. view
• 15 May 2019 in Senate: More importantly, the Committee made the resolution that counties under Category A be supported. Therefore, we need to know whether this money was put into good use. What is the status of the headquarters that were to be supported? Has any construction taken place? We should not just give money to our counties and not follow the expenditure. We need to ensure that this money is put into good use. I would like to hear from the Senators who represent Isiolo, Lamu, Nyandarua, Tana River and Tharaka Nithi counties and know whether the money that was allocated to them was ... view