Godana Hargura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The Council of Governors (CoG) needs to have representation there because these are county functions. The other one is the board itself. The way it is set, it should have professionals in it, for example, from the accounting profession. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: If you look at the areas it covers, that is where you will have maybe somebody from the Engineers Board of Kenya (EBK). This is because it covers roads, which are mainly dealt with by engineers. Even health is still mainly dealing with infrastructure. It is all infrastructure based and not about the drugs and all that. Water also is about infrastructure. We need people from the EBK because of the technical aspect. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, in the management of that fund, we already have boards which manage funds dealing with infrastructure. For example, the Kenya Roads Board (KRB), we already have funds from there which are sent to counties as conditional grant as the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF). view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: They have very clear guidelines on administration of that fund and how the fund is spent. They do technical and financial audit of that fund. The board we expect should ensure that that fund is used prudently. It should have a technical capacity to audit the funds. We do not need to reinvent the wheel. They can get the systems which are being used by those other boards. This is so that the funds are given to the counties as conditional grants. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, we do not need to have the constituency-based committees. This is just a duplication of National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF). I do not know whether Sen. (Dr.) Mwaura was right when he said that in the last Parliament, when the Members of Parliament (MPs) tried to transfer this fund to CDF, it was defeated at the National Assembly. 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: I remember it came here and it was defeated in the Senate. The National Assembly, which could not raise two thirds on many issues including the Gender Bill could raise two thirds on moving Equalization Fund to CDF. It was the Senate which shot it down. In fact, we did away with it in the Second Reading. It did not move because we did not like that way. This is now a back door of doing the same thing. It is creating another NG-CDF. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the members the way they are being selected, they are approved by the National Assembly. It does not come to Parliament. It goes to the National Assembly. It is good that we do away with that constituency level committee. The board should be strengthened and have the proper technical arm so that they can easily look at the projects which are being. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: When it comes to KRB, they have very clear guidelines of even how you identify your roads and how to make sure that whatever roads you start, you complete. This board must have a proper technical arm because it deals with technical issues. Water, health and roads are infrastructure. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, even on electricity, there are many parts of this country which are marginalized which are off-grid. Going up north, the national grid ends at Isiolo. Isiolo is 600 kilometers from the border at Moyale. That is further than Nairobi to Mombasa. There is no national grid on that side. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Even the power we generate like the Lake Turkana Wind Power does not serve that part of the country. It is evacuated to Suswa in Narok, then connected to the national grid. Because of that, electricity in this case will remain off-grid. view