16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would like to contribute to this.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thank Sen. Faki for coming up with Statement. The Statement concerns small businesses. As a country, we have to see how to encourage small businesses to grow. There are people who have started small business and ended up being employers. This Statement deals with trade and there is a close relationship between trade and accessibility of roads. I, therefore, hope you will refer this Statement to the Committee on Tourism, Trade and Industrialization. I am the Vice-Chairperson of this Committee. I would be interested to go there to see what is happening and bring a finding ...
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. I begin by thanking Sen. Nyamunga for coming up with this Bill that is very straightforward. I wish it would have come much earlier when this Senate was being reconstituted. It is clear that the intent of Sen. Nyamunga is that counties should develop themselves, be independent and have reliable sources of income. When we look at the tenet of this Bill, it is to ensure that there is proper identification, utilization and exploitation of resources in the county. We must be alive to the fact that in 2010 when ...
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
County Executives must scratch their heads and see what they can do with the land in the county to ensure it is productive and has sustainable development. Land is a key factor of production. There are many ways in which land can be utilized. For instance, land that is viable in counties can be used to construct houses which can then be mortgaged, sold out or can just be rented out by the county. That can be a sustainable way of earning an income. County Executives should maximally utilize land in counties. This Bill states that it allows regional counties ...
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, we came up with a devolved system of government in order to arrest rural-urban in search of employment. Employment should be right in rural areas. That is why we talk about development. We have talked of land and labour. Let us exploit the labour in the rural areas to benefit our counties.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
We talk about capital as an important resource. In revenue sharing, 35 per cent of the national revenue goes to the counties. County executives need to utilize this money productively and even generate income from it so that this money is ploughed back to counties.
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
There is need for county executives to be transparent in the manner in which they utilize the money that comes from the national Government. That money should be of
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
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16 Feb 2022 in Senate:
benefit to the youth, women and PWDs. I not deny that county executives do a good job awarding tenders to these groups, but they can do much more. With the devolved systems, everyone can see that transportation is now better in the counties. Growing up, I remember walking many kilometres to my parents’ home because there was no means of transport. Roads were impassable. Sometimes you would wait four hours for a matatu fill up so that you begin the journey. People could not even afford the bus fare and so they would opt to walk. Right now, roads are ...
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