Francis Chachu Ganya

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• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I want us to take a hard look at these issues. Maybe we need more refresher courses as Members of Parliament to understand our mandate. Maybe we are not taking the advice of the experts available to us, but I really wonder how a progress report finds its way to the Floor of the House and we waste the whole afternoon debating whether we should debate the report or not. How do we make unconstitutional recommendations when we have legal experts, and eventually the report goes to the Office of the Hon. Speaker for approval before it is given a ... view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: These are weighty issues. If this is the path we are going to take, I am not sure whether we will be serving this nation. We sit in many committees and we have seen people give orders to the Executive by suspending projects as if we initiated them ourselves. That is the role of the Executive. We even vacate notices which we never gave in the first place. We are going by far, above and beyond our mandate, yet our mandates are very clear. We need to be advised. view
• 7 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this petition by Hon. Kingi. It is so sad that 50 years or more after Independence, Kenyans are still squatters on their own land. view
• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Now that we have a new constitutional dispensation, we have the NLC and other relevant authorities, who can easily address the land crisis in this country. While many other Kenyans are enjoying thousands of acres of individual land, other Kenyans are suffering as squatters. This is not right and should end. Our Constitution is very clear on this issue. It is time we made a decision as the House and forced those institutions or authorities to do what is right. I fully support this petition. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this very impressive Report. At the outset, I commend the Committee for this very timely Report. This is the first one we are discussing in this House since this Committee was formed and I think this is the right way to go. When we discuss the audit reports of our respective constituencies in such a timely manner, they make us more accountable and transparent to the public. They ensure that this House is as accountable as the Judiciary and the Executive. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It is a very prudent management practice and such a timely audit will enable us manage tangible results and ensure that in our constituencies, the projects that we are implementing are those that add value from the money audit reports. It is very important for the NG-CDF Board to ensure that they invest in the most efficient Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) software. Monitoring and Evaluation for any projects that are done anywhere in the world is critical, if we are to manage for results and ensure that we are efficient and effective in whatever projects implemented. As of now, I ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We also need to empower the NG-CDF Oversight Committees. This is the only organ within the NG-CDF that ensures quality M&E. The amount of funds available to facilitate them to undertake this work is very minimal. Unless effective monitoring is done by this oversight committee as the organ thus recognised by the Act, I am afraid we may not achieve the kind of tangible results we all desire. As MPs, we are part of the oversight committee for monitoring, but we are not always available. However, these committees should be facilitated and enabled to visit projects in vast constituencies like ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: You can see the difficulties and challenges of monitoring projects in that kind of constituency with very minimum amount of money. It really takes us days when we go round monitoring in the entire constituency and visiting different projects in different corners. Yet, I get the same amount of money with Kibra, here in Nairobi, where you can walk within 30 minutes from one corner to the other. Even, Saku in my own county is much smaller than my constituency. This is the realities of NG-CDF. view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: While I strongly belief, that the parameters we use in allocating the NG-CDF resources is not equitable at all, I want to consider going to the Supreme Court to take a very hard look at the constitutionality of the NG-CDF Act. If equitable distribution of resources is one issue recognised in our constitution, I want to know if the NG-CDF Act is constitutional because it does not take the parameter of equitable allocation of resources into account. It only looks at equality and that is why they take the amount of money availed to us and divide by 290 constituencies. ... view