George Washinton Mallan Omondi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 10 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I know that once this Bill is passed in this House, His Excellency the President is going to be visited by very many people with complaints. The IMF and the World Bank (WB) are going to come in. Let me make a differentiation. What Hon. Jude Njomo’s Bill intends to do is not to control interest but rather interest regulation. This should be acceptable because if one bothers to read what happened in the United States of America in 2008, he or she will find out that the reason why they had the banking ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. This is a very good Bill because as we all know, the devolved system which was established by the Constitution of Kenya 2010 introduced two levels of government and offices were created. As we go along, we go through certain experiences. This Bill intends to bring sanity as well as checks and balances. Some of the experiences that we have gone through must guide us to modify the way we do things. This Bill intends to operationalise the Office of the Controller of Budget. Article 228(4) and (5) of the Constitution spells out the ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: timelines within which to give those reports. This Bill stipulates that this report must be there within 30 days after the end of every quarter. In addition, Clause 6(2)(a), (b) and (c) of the Bill spell out what the Controller of Budget quarterly report should contain and how they should be prepared, which is a step in the right direction. These are not provided for in the Constitution, but this Bill provides for them. This will ensure prudent and efficient utilisation of public funds. Clause 7(b) of the Bill gives “meat” to provisions of Article 252(1)(a) by stipulating that the ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this important Bill. I must start by thanking my friend, Hon. Lessonet, the Chairman of the Committee, for having done a good job with his team. Initially, when this matter came to the Budget and Appropriations Committee, we thought that they had not done a good job. It appears they went back and reviewed the whole thing and now they have brought in some relevance concerning the complaint that the people had and which made them to take us to court. I will not talk much ... view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Part II Section 4(ii) of the Bill will make the new CDF. The new little CDF will operate in conformity with Article 206(ii) (c) of the Constitution. I am trying to put the relevance the Committee had put on the new Bill. Part IV, Section 22(a) ensures that there will be no duplication of projects as had been the case previously. In this respect, it will be difficult for corruption to take place as before. It was possible for the projects to be duplicated between the projects carried out by the MCAs and CDF. view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: As I said, this will lessen the possibility of corruption that was there earlier. view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Next is Part V Section 25(ii). It is about the consideration of the national development plan. It is being taken into account and it should be realigned with ---- Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, these Members are having a meeting next to where I am. view
• 24 Nov 2015 in National Assembly: Section (25)(ii) will take into consideration the national development plan which will also take into account the strategic development plan of the CDF committees. Finally, it is true just to mention a little bit that CDF has done a lot in this country. I would request other funds which have been created to take a leaf from the CDF and make any devolved fund to work. At the moment, there are so many funds that have been devolved, but nobody is seeing what they are doing anywhere. In my constituency, we have become creative in using the CDF in the ... view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 8 of the Bill be amended by inserting the following subsections immediately after subsection (1)— “(1A) The Official Receiver shall establish a committee of three officers to— (a) review applications for authorization to act as insolvency practitioners; and (b) recommend to the Official Receiver the grant or refusal of authorization. (1B)The committee established under subsection (1A) shall keep a record of its meetings and recommendations made to the Official Receiver.” view
• 19 Aug 2015 in National Assembly: The Bill, as originally brought here, gave the Official Receiver the authority to authorise the insolvency practitioners. I want applications to be looked at by a committee, so that the process is transparent. view