George Washinton Mallan Omondi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very important Motion for the following reasons: If we look at the history of our country, we may say that we got Independence and we are developing. But there are certain things that we have neglected, and which the Colonial Government had put in place. One of the areas that we have neglected is the recognition of the village elders and the job that they do. Some of the rot we see in our society, particularly among the youth and in some of our institutions and more so the security-related institutions, ... view
• 27 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: villages and they are sitting there with the youth who can identify them. This can only be identified by the village elders. If they are not recognised, if they are working for free, there will be laxity. So, in order to go back and pick up from where we left, we need to recognise the village elders by giving them some token. Maybe, the token is just one way of recognising them. We need national leaders going to functions and calling the village elders as a way of recognising them. This will go a long way. In other countries, village ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. It is true that this Bill intends to bring in financial discipline taking cue from the experience we have had in the past several years. The Bill creates some other loopholes which must not be allowed. I will point out a few clauses which are good and others which are bad and will require amendments. view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: Clause 5 talks about giving counties capacity building. Rather than giving them capacity building, they should be assisted to set up their own budget offices. For the Parliamentary Budget Office to assist the 47 counties in capacity building, they may be over stretched. At the moment, counties are only operating with one fiscal analyst and maybe that is why things are going bad. That should not happen. Clause 5 removes Clause (c) and replaces it with a new one. Maybe we should be moving the current Section 35(1)(c) to Section 31(b) because leaving out the Budget Policy Statement wording may ... view
• 26 Jul 2016 in National Assembly: (b) Any other specified officer authorized by legislation to executive such documents on behalf of the entity”. Here, the authority was being given beforehand, but now the amendment is good because the responsibility will still remain with the CS for signing of those documents. Clause 43 is not a good amendment because it also bypasses Section 134 of the Act. It allows a county government to spend money without the approval of the county assembly. That amendment is not good and should be looked into in the same manner that we have looked at the national Government. Clause 50 should ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. The issue of the mall is not what I wanted to discuss. I wanted to speak on the Budget. However, let me talk about the issue of the mall. I do not think the former MD gave us a lot of light on this thing. That is why we are quarrelling. We do not understand the genesis of this thing. It would be important for the former MD to give us the financial benefits this mall was going to give to the Government of Kenya. As my colleague has just said, we should not keep on ... view
• 28 Apr 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I support the amendment because if you have a rogue regulator without having a ceiling, it can be a draconian fining. So, I support the amendment. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to comment on this Division of Revenue Bill. While I support the Bill, I will make observations. There are certain things that we really need to look hard at in the Division of Revenue Bill namely, the money that goes to the counties or to the national Government. Some of the things that concern our country very much seem not to be addressed in the Division of Revenue Bill. First of all, we need to see in the Bill the outcome of the previous allocations. What did it do? ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: is high time these were addressed in the Division of Revenue Bill and reported to Parliament. Putting all those together, we should be told in the Division of Revenue Bill how the counties are growing. We are given estimates of the growth of the national economy but we are not told how the counties are growing. We need to see these figures. We need to see this data so that before the money is given, we have this information which can inform whether the money is given or not. The third area is that we seem not to be addressing ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I support but some of those things need to be looked into. view