Farhiya Ali Haji

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to contribute. I thank Sen. Chebeni for sponsoring this Bill. Doing business in Kenya has always been difficult in terms of getting licenses, the requirements and the time it takes. It is like trying to navigate a very dangerous jungle. By the time you reach your destination, you are almost giving up whatever you were pursuing. Sen. Chebeni has encouraged investors to invest in this country. Imagine having a licensing procedure in all the 47 counties being different. If somebody wanted to invest in all the 47 counties in ... view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: 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
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: I support. view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to move this Bill. I beg to move that the Prompt Payment Bill (Senate Bills No. 16 of 2021) be read a Second Time. view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: What prompted me and Sen. Sakaja to develop this Bill was that in December 2018, there was a Petition from Kitui County regarding some pending bills of some suppliers who were not paid for a very long time but had already done the work. Some of them were auctioned by banks while others committed suicide once their property was sold. How do you tell your family that you owned a maisonette and lived somewhere comfortably having bread on your table, then suddenly you have absolutely nothing to eat because all your money is owed by the county government? You are ... view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, at that time I sat listening to submissions from people who had those pending bills. It really pained me and I felt like we need to do something about pending bills in this country. As a result of that Petition, I agreed with Sen. Sakaja that we were going to solve that problem by developing a Bill that would ensure suppliers are paid on time. view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: Our initial idea was for only the county and national governments to pay promptly. However, as we got submissions from other stakeholders, the private sector told us that as much as we think that public institutions do not pay, the big boys in the private sector do not pay the small boys. They also lose money like that. They borrow loans and are also declared bankrupt on something that they have used their money to perform and yet are not paid on time. view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, there are a lot of good things in this Bill to ensure that people are paid. One of the issues that is clearly identified and defined in this Bill is an accounting officer. An accounting officer of a national Government entity is as referred to in Section 67 of the Public Finance Management Act (PFM). It also refers to an accounting officer of a county government entity referred to in Section 148 of the PFM Act. When it comes to the Judiciary, it is the registrar of the Judiciary. In the case of the Parliamentary Service ... view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: The other thing defined is the “amount due.” It is the means the principal sum owed through a commercial transaction. The words “Cabinet Secretary” (CS), and “commercial transaction” are also defined. I do not think that I need to belabour on that. The other term that is defined is “interest”, which means the prevailing Central Bank of Kenya interest rate provided for under Clause 6 of this Bill. view
• 28 Jul 2021 in Senate: 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