Henry Rotich

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, our resolve to empower the youth, women, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups through various initiatives including provision of affirmative funds, reservation of public procurement opportunities remains steadfast. Already, Hon. Speaker, we have set registration and advisory services for those groups in 52 Huduma Centers spread across the country. The National Treasury is closely monitoring the implementation of the programmes to ensure full compliance by all public entities. Hon. Speaker, we will continue to create a conducive environment for micro, small and medium size enterprises (MSMEs) to thrive as they are the pillar to create jobs for ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, to support sports, culture and arts, I have allocated: Kshs200 million for construction of a Sports Academy and Kshs300 million for completion of an ultra-modern national library. Funding for sports, culture and arts will be enhanced significantly with the creation of a new fund that will receive monies from taxation of betting and gaming. view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, since the commencement of devolution five years ago, it is evident that resources are now closer to the people, decisions are made at the grassroots level and public participation is a requirement at every level of engagement. The over Kshs1.3 trillion that has gone to the counties in the last five years has ensured uninterrupted service delivery by all the 47 county governments. Hon. Speaker, in the Financial Year (FY) 2018/19, we are providing to the counties a further Kshs376.4 billion comprising a sharable revenue of Kshs314 billion and conditional allocations amounting to Kshs62.4 billion. The allocations in ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: sponsored Kenya Devolution Support Program (KDSP) and I intend to scale up this allocation Kshs6.3 billion in the course of the year. In addition, in order to enhance public finance management skills of county governments’ officials, the National Treasury will intensify its training at the Kenya School of Government, including on public procurement. We will continue to co-operate with county governments to ensure quality, effective and efficient service delivery to our citizens. In this context, the Government has partnered with the African Development Bank to implement a program that seeks to improve access and quality water supply and sanitation services ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: As this is a commercially viable project, we plan to deliver it on a project finance basis without recourse to public debt. The Government will, however, invest as a shareholder in the integrated project and will provide public sector facilitation as necessary. The recent drought and floods that have afflicted most parts of our country underscores the need to preserve our forests and environment. Therefore, to enhance and sustain environment protection, flood control and water harvesting interventions, I have allocated: Kshs7.2 billion for Water Resource Management, Kshs33.7 billion for Water and Sewerage Infrastructure Development, Kshs2.9 billion for Environment Management and ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: manufactured in Kenya to embrace the “Buy-Kenya-build-Kenya Initiative”. Where an accounting officer is unable to procure items wholly or partially manufactured in Kenya, he or she shall cause a report detailing evidence of inability to procure such items. view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we intend to make procurement as transparent as possible. In line with yesterday’s Presidential Directive on procurement processes and consistent with the provisions of the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act 2015, all accounting officers of Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and parastatals are required to publish and publicise all procurement contracts on their websites, the State portal and tender notice boards with effect from 1st July 2018. The publication shall contain the following information: (i) Names and designations of the tender evaluation committee members; (ii) The name of the contractor or supplier awarded the tender; (iii)Names of ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Accordingly, all the accounting officers will be expected to share the reports on contract awards to the National Treasury and the Public Procurement Regulatory Authority (PPRA) for publication on its website notices. This directive will enhance transparency and accountability in the public procurement and asset disposal proceedings. view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: In addition, we are working very closely with the key investigative agencies of Government, including the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC), National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Director of Criminal Investigations (DCI) to identify and seal any loop holes that corrupt individuals may be using within the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). To strengthen various institutions that are mandated to fight corruption in the country, I have allocated Kshs2.9 billion to EACC, Kshs2.9 billion to the Department of Public Prosecutions, Kshs161.0 million to the Assets Recovery Agency, Kshs587.0 million to the Financial Reporting Centre, Kshs6.4 billion to the Criminal ... view
• 14 Jun 2018 in National Assembly: Kenya has made significant steps towards improving its anti-money laundering measures and abiding by global standards on anti-money laundering and financing of terrorism. To further tighten these measures, I propose to amend the Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act to address money laundering and terrorism financing risks associated with non face-to-face businesses and transactions. In addition, I propose to include the SACCO Societies Regulatory Authority (SASRA) as one of the supervisory bodies under Proceeds of Crime and Anti-Money Laundering Act to give the Authority a legal platform to monitor the compliance of deposit- taking SACCOs in respect to prevention ... view