20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
I withdraw that word.
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20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, allocating Kshs310 billion to 47 counties is ridiculous. Those are peanuts. A simple arithmetic shows me that it is about Kshs6 billion per county. Allocating Kshs6 billion to a poor county like mine is a joke. Those are peanuts. It will not achieve any meaningful development. I wish the Committee divided the revenue equitably such that the national Government gets 50 per cent and the county governments get 50 per cent. Although they are following the Constitution, something needs to be done. In the spirit of the Constitution, devolution was meant to transfer development and services ...
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20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
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20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
participation on money allocated to the county government. I do not know who participates in that exercise. The money being allocated to county governments is being allocated to be spent at the discretion of governors; that is with no reference to the main stakeholder. The main stakeholder in the county is actually the Member of Parliament, the Senator and the Women Representative. However, they are not consulted. Therefore, I think we are being used as a conduit to siphon money to be stolen by county governments. I have heard about conditional grants which have been given to county governments. The ...
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to give a proposal because…
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
To the issue being raised.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
About the issue of Cabinet Secretaries answering Questions.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, some of the Questions that are being asked here are cross-cutting and some of the Members also want to listen to the answers. Some of them affect others.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
I will do that because necessity is the mother of innovation and we must be innovative. When I was sitting here, I saw a very nice strategic space up there where Cabinet Secretaries can answer Questions from.
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19 Mar 2019 in National Assembly:
Where we can see them properly.
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