Godana Hargura

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• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: At the end of the exercise what the executive will have from each ward is projects which have been identified. From there, it is for the executive to determine which projects the amount of money can fund. For example, members of the public are not expert to know the cost of constructing a borehole or a dispensary which might be their priorities. Therefore, it is for the executive to assign the number of projects to be covered by that amount of money. So, basically, it is a process which has been tried. Madam Temporary Speaker, last year, public participation was ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Clause12 (3) gives room for continuity. It states that:- “Where- (a) a project is to be carried out for a period of more than one financial year; and (b) the financial obligations relating to the project exist for the subsequent year, the County Executive Committee (CEC) Member shall seek the approval of the county assembly for the appropriation of monies in the subsequent financial year during which the project is to be undertaken for the completion of that project”. Madam Temporary Speaker, I thought what needs to be done is that each year, the money has to be budgeted for. ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the other part is reporting and oversight which gives the county assembly, so to speak, the power to make sure that the executive complies with this law. I am saying this taking into account that currently the county assembly has limited leeway in terms of changing the budgets of the executive. They can only change, if I am not wrong, 1 per cent. So, that is not changing. If you can only change 1 per cent of a budget, then you are not changing anything. But with this kind of a law, then you have a way ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 20 Mar 2019 in Senate: and which constituency or community supported which party or government, then you have your rights anchored in this law, so that you always get the same shares as any other part of the county. It also takes into account marginalized parts. Sometimes we think that when you come from a county, the whole county is at the same level, which is not true. Within the county, there are areas which are more marginalized than others. Therefore, when this money is being shared, there must be some way of taking that into account. I do not know whether the Bill addresses ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank Sen. Khaniri for bringing up this issue of birth certificates. When the Government decided that the birth certificates are a requirement for registration for examinations, they should have also made sure that those birth certificates are made easily available. My county is largest in this country, and the farthest point, Ileret, is about 600 kilometres from Marsabit. Somebody from Ileret is required to get the birth certificate, which is only available in Marsabit. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, one thing that the Committee should tell us is how the Government ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to thank Sen. Wetangula form bringing up this issue. I would like to join my colleagues who said that this is actually not a hunger issue but a moral issue. We know very well we are in times of climate change where we have to actually monitor our climate seriously; that is why we have the National Drought Management Authority (NDMA) doing that. I know at the counties they have county steering groups where NDMA gives these briefs. So nobody can say they woke up one day and found there was hunger. ... view
• 19 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I would also like to concentrate on the county government. When we voted for devolution, we expected that funds would go closer to the people and people would elect their own Governors who would take care of their situation. There is nothing more important than life. We have been sitting here for the last six years and a County like Turkana has received Kshs60.7 billion in the last six years. So you ask yourself, what has this money done? We have been saying that maybe the next drought will not occur in Turkana; unfortunately, it is ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to support this Petition. I know that it will be come to our Committee and we will do the much that we can. More often than not, the Government borrows money from the international organisations for development and those organisations expect the Government to compensate for the land. However, the Government does not plan for that compensation and that is why we end up with a contract yet the people have not been compensated and they want the contract to go ahead. That is the case that we have in Eldoret and other ... view