Hon Francis Kuria Kimani

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: COVID-19 has shown us that you do not need to physically meet to pass a resolution. Therefore, our amending the Companies Act to allow hybrid of virtual meetings to be part of statutory meetings will be a step in the right direction. It has been said here that if someone owes you money in a business transaction, the easy thing to do is to go to court and it will take you five years to get that payment. The amendment of the law to allow a maximum of 60 days injunction of small cases is a step in the right ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: In as much as the national Government may do their part, county governments will still let us down. Another example is the health certificate. If you just open a small business of washing cars, then your county government will require you to get a health certificate. For what? Do you need a health certificate to clean a car? These are some of the weird, absurd levies and conditions that our county governments are imposing on our business people. So, in as much as we are saying that by passing these amendments, they will ensure ease of doing business, our county ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me a chance to contribute to the Supplementary Appropriation Bill of 2021. This Supplementary Appropriation Bill seeks authority to disburse Kshs125.16 billion out of the Consolidated Fund towards services provided by the Government for the year ending June 2021. I was asking myself why we are here for the Supplementary Budget. Why are the expenses whose distribution we want approved in the Supplementary Budget not there in the main Budget? The biggest reason we were given as the Budget and Appropriations Committee was poor revenue performance due to the COVID-19 ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Once we approve this Supplementary Appropriation Bill, it is going to unlock funds that will be disbursed to our constituencies as the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), go towards payment of pending bills and completion of Government projects. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Pending bills have been a great concern to this House. It is an illegality. Year in, year out, we must discuss a Supplementary Budget to approve payment of pending bills. When I served in the Public Accounts Committee (PAC), the question of pending bills would be flagged off by the Auditor-General every year. We would sit down and ask why we always had pending bills. Pending bills lock finances of business people. That is why business people no longer want to work with the Government, unless one is a multi-billionaire. A young person cannot possibly take a bank loan at ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The issue of expenditure has been discussed. I want to over-emphasise the issue of parastatals. Our Committee, in its wisdom, refused to appropriate funds for institutions like Utalii College. It does not make sense for Government institutions like Utalii College to make loses. Academic institutions in this country make billions of shillings annually. We have institutions like Mount Kenya University, a private institution that has opened branches across Africa. Why is Kenya Utalii College making loses? Boma Hotel, which is owned by the Red Cross Society and offers similar courses as those offered by Kenya Utalii College, is making a ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: This House has to make a decision whether we really need to have Government offering those services to the people, through Government parastatals, or we collapse all of them and sell them off and offer essential services that can only be offered by the Government. If training can be offered by a private institution, then let the private institution offer that training and not the Government. If a product can be offered by the private sector, let it be and not by a Government institution because this leads to plunder of Government funds. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Let me speak to the disbursement of these funds. Once we approve, as a House, what we have appropriated to the Ministries, it is at the discretion of the National Treasury to know which funds should be distributed when. Last week, we almost had a standstill on the Supplementary Estimates because funds that were supposed to go to the NG-CDF had not been disbursed, whereas some Ministries had received 100 per cent of their requests. Why is it that money which should go directly to Wanjiku is not disbursed on time? Let me give another example. Last week, we heard ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: where the mouth is. Programmes that touch on Government spending and the local mwananchi should be given preference when disbursement is done. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: With those many remarks, I beg to support. view