Godana Hargura

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• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I beg to give Notice of the following Motion: THAT, the Senate adopts the Reports of the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments on consideration of Reports by the Auditor General on Financial Statements of the following Counties laid on the Table of the Senate on Tuesday 14th June, 2022- (i) County Executives of Nyeri, Tharaka Nithi, Murang’a, Kitui, Lamu, Siaya, Busia, Meru, Nyamira, Turkana, Makueni, Bungoma, and Elgeyo-Marakwet for the for the Financial Year 2018/2019 as contained in Volume I of the Report; (ii) County Assemblies of Bomet, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Nyamira ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I thank Sen. Olekina for bringing up this issue. As he has rightfully said, this could be the highest fuel prices we are experiencing in this country. If you look at what actually constitutes the fuel price, about 50 per cent could be the taxes we are charging. When the landing price increases, any sensitive Government should do something about the taxes. In our case, nothing is being done about the taxes. The only explanation we are given is that there is an increase in the landing price, which is 50 per cent of the ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: If the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) tell us they have generated more than they were supposed to have collected, this means that taxes of Kenyans have increased. When this kind of fuel price increase occurs, they should be the first ones to think of how they can cushion Kenyans against that. We know fuel price affects all sectors of our lives; it can be in transport or production. They should not jump to increase fuel prices like the recent increase by Kshs9 per litre. I believe in this period of time when we are experiencing a lot of hardship, it ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: I urge the relevant Authority to see how they can cushion Kenyans because there are mechanisms to do so when it comes to fuel prices. view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. I would like to thank the petitioners from Uasin Gishu who happens to be affected persons because they are staff members. Health is a devolved function. Among the devolved functions, I believe health is the most important. This is because we know the importance of human health as compared to any other activity of the human being. Without being healthy, we cannot perform any other activity. It is an important function. Considering this Petition and Statement that we had earlier, we are experiencing challenges at the county level in implementing this function. Health involves several ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Unfortunately, this is not the case. For instance, in this case, the personnel system for the whole county is not in place. I wonder how they have been operating because the law requires county executives to submit an organogram for approval. Once it has been approved, the County Public Service Board (CPSB) should use it whenever they receive any indents to employee any staff. I wonder how the CPSB in Uasin Gishu is operating without organograms, which have been approved and submitted to them to use when they are employing. On the issue of equipment, we have even heard it ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion- THAT, the Senate adopts the Reports of the Sessional Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments on consideration of Reports by the Auditor General on Financial Statements of the following Counties laid on the Table of the Senate on Tuesday 14th June, 2022- (1) County Executives of Nyeri, Tharaka Nithi, Murang’a, Kitui, Lamu, Siaya, Busia, Meru, Nyamira, Turkana, Makueni, Bungoma, and Elgeyo-Marakwet for the for the Financial Year 2018/2019 as contained in Volume I of the Report; (2) County Assemblies of Bomet, Taita Taveta, Kilifi, Nyamira and Garissa for the ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: assemblies on various dates during the session, where it considered reports of the Auditor-General. The Committee undertook some of the sittings at the county level, with the last one being in Mombasa to interrogated counties in the Mombasa Region Audit Hub. The sittings were primarily investigatory. The Committee received evidence from governors of the county executives as well as from the clerks of the county assemblies. Madam Temporary Speaker, in this Motion, my Committee presents four reports, listed as Volumes I, II, III and IV; that were considered and adopted by the Committee regarding county executives and county assemblies. The ... view
• 15 Jun 2022 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Committee further noted that during the period under review, most counties had weaknesses in executing their budgets. For example, county executives did not adhere to approved budget ceilings set for programme votes and sub-votes. They either over-utilized or under-utilized appropriated funds. In some instances, funds were reallocated to items that were not in the budget, without any prior approval by either the Controller of Budget (CoB) or relevant county assemblies. We have always insisted on provision of revised or supplementary budgets. However, some county executives change items without referring to the county assemblies, while the law ... view