Godana Hargura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, in the last Parliament, I remember CRA came up with criteria of establishing the marginalized areas, although they came up with 14 counties. After that, they even revised their identification formula, then came up with a longer list. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: I can remember they even proposed the last on that list was a ward in Murang’a County, which is getting Kshs4 million. You wonder how that Kshs4 million was to be implemented. If you were to go through a committee, how will a committee sit to identify a project that will cost Kshs4 million. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, if you look at what you have here as a committee or the structure given here, I do not think what was lacking was a Bill like this. What was lacking was the goodwill of the national Government to operationalize this Fund. This is because it is very clear that this Fund has a time limit of 20 years. Already ten years are gone. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: I hope that Parliament will use Clauses 7 and 8 to extend the life of this Fund. It says that Parliament may extent by a simple majority. It will not have that much of a problem because it requires simple majority in both Houses to pass an extension. Even the Controller of Budget (CoB) is supposed to make sure that nothing is withdrawn without the consent of the CoB. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, coming back to the Bill, I think this Bill was done in very bad faith by the National Assembly. Look at the memorandum at the end, The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: where normally you have to state whether this Bill concerns counties. The Mover of the Bill writes very clearly that this Bill does not affect the functions of county governments as set out in Fourth Schedule of the Constitution and is, therefore, not a Bill concerning county governments. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The Fourth Schedule gives the functions of the county governments. It is very clear that water, health and roads at that level are county government functions. I do not think that the roads we are talking of are highways. We are talking of rural accessibility. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, those are all roads under the county governments. We are trying to open up areas where people could not access. These are county government functions. When somebody says that this Bill does not concern counties, then that is drafted in very bad faith. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The other aspect is the way the Bill is set out. It establishes a board. Look at the membership of that board. It is like a standard board where many Principal Secretaries sit in or assign people. However, this is supposed to be a Fund that has a time limit and supposed to have very little bureaucracy. As the Bill says, what they are trying to do is to cut down on bureaucracy, but they are creating more. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I agree with the Committee in their Report that we only have the representative of the PS for Finance and National Treasury and the PS for Devolution and Arid and Semi-Arid Lands (ASALs). This is all about development and devolution, which is all about counties and we have that. view