Godana Hargura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, each center, and unfortunately, there, centers are far apart between 40 kilometers and 60 kilometers. Each one requires its own mini-grid and already we have seen some being done by Rural Electrification Authority (REA) together with some donors. They do off-grid, hybrid of solar-wind and solar-thermal. Those kinds of electricity systems can be covered by this fund. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The Bill as it is, I do not support it. It is just another CDF. It is just another way of making sure that funds end up under the control of the MPs which I do not think is the right way to go. That is why we have devolution. I am somebody who even feels CDF should not be there. This is because CDF was there because there was no devolution. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, once devolution is there, then CDF should exit. However, to survive, they had to just limit it to national Government functions. All these are not national Government functions. They should not be having anything to do with it. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The other aspect is the extension and even the amount of the fund. Look at what we have. If the CDF is 2.5 per cent and it is around over Kshs30 billion, then 0.5 per cent will be about seven and something million at most. Much as in the scope that CDF covers the whole country and this one is only to some limited areas. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the infrastructure which this fund is supposed to cover and the gap it is supposed to bridge is so big that we cannot cover it with 0.5 per cent. We need to increase it at least to one per cent which will be about Kshs15 billion. 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: That will have more impact than the 0.5 per cent. However, that is not a subject of this Bill. This Bill is just trying to see how the fund can be started to be utilized. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: The other one is the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) which has a very clear role to play in this fund. They also need to be realistic because they need to make sure that the fund is not spread so thin the way they have done it in their second proposal. That you can give four million shillings to a sub location and say you are trying to mitigate some marginalization. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the first one was better where they had even checked marginalization within the counties then they just tap it at 14 counties. Their reasoning was that whatever can be done has some effect. In that case, I remember a county like Marsabit was to get Kshs800 million. That would be substantial if it is limited to those areas. That is if it is not spread thin at that level. view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: What they get before and what was to be implemented was also spread thin. It was not doing any major infrastructure and that would not be good. For example, what I was thinking was that if it is a road, then it should be a major gravel road which can open up a bigger part of that county. If it is a water project, it is bigger and can cover at least a wider area in terms of population. This is so that at the end of the day we can see this is what we have been able to ... view
• 7 Oct 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, otherwise if we do not do that then we will run the risk of spreading again this fund thin on the ground. However, those are now technical issues which this board needs to take into account. If it does not do that also, we will run the risk of just ending up with a fund which is not useful on the ground. That way the purpose of curing marginalization will not be there. view