Farhiya Ali Haji

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 1656.

• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, let me speak to the salient provisions of the Bill. At the onset, the Bill proposes to require procurement entities at the national and county government to pay suppliers on the prescribed date in terms of when the bill should be settled. If it is not settled by the prescribed date, this Bill recommends that the procuring agency shall pay interest to the suppliers in accordance with the section on the amount due under the contract for supply of goods and work services. The Bill provides maximum interest rates chargeable based on rates set and published by ... view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: The Bill proposes to place an obligation on a procuring entity to ensure that priority is given to suppliers of outstanding debts for supply of goods and services in procuring entities. In this respect, the Bill provides that determining which debts shall be given priority by a procuring entity shall be regarded to the date upon which payment fell due and shall pay debt in a chronological order. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the reason why it is important for bills to be paid in chronological order. I know my own county, Wajir County, bills come and a request is made to the Controller of Budget for payment to certain suppliers. However, once the money hits the account of the county government, the county government diverts it to other use other than the intended purpose when the requested payment was made to the National Government. This is why chronological order has to be in place. The first bills that come are the first to be paid. view
• 2 Jun 2020 in Senate: The reason why chronological order is important, as you are aware, corruption in public entities happens in two stages: The first stage is where people are bidding and corruption influences awarding of the contracts. The second stage is once you supply or sometime “air” is supplied according to what we have heard, those who supply “air” are given priority when payment is being done. If we pass this Bill, it will reduce half of the corruption that happens in a procuring entity. When we went to our Parliamentary Group meeting at State House as Jubilee Members, the President retaliated that. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, shall I continue or just start from where I was. I am not sure at what point they lost me. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, thank you. Like I had said before, a greater part of our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is agriculture-based. We cannot afford to slide back in terms of our investment in agriculture and by extension, livestock. We always talk about agriculture and forget livestock. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: The other issue is in terms of development of arid and semi-arid areas. Because of population growth that we, politicians, encourage, there is less land acreage available for agriculture. That is part of the reason contributing to the slowing down on agriculture. There is need to discuss that issue candidly. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, in terms of investment in arid and semi-arid areas, there is a lot of land available. We know that there are countries that are deserts. Today, we import oranges and some other fruits from places like Israel and Egypt, which are deserts. Our arid lands are not even as bad as that. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: There is need to invest there more, so that there is a lot of production to feed this country. If we continue with this trend and given the population growth and weather patterns, even farmers are not able to predict when to plant and harvest. This is because of the impact of climatic changes. Because of all these problems, we need to re-strategize how we handle our agriculture given all those scenarios. view
• 26 May 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank you for giving me this opportunity. view