Irungu Kang'ata

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if we do not honour that summons, we are going to create a very negative precedent. We will find ourselves in a situation where other governors or persons who have been summoned by the Senate fail to come. They will cite that case as a precedent. We have seen several other governors, Cabinet Secretaries and other entities agreeing to the summons of the 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
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Therefore, I would urge you to give a ruling that is going to ensure that what is happening does not recur. It is very dishonourable on the part of a top county official to refuse to honour summons of this Senate. I think the IG was misadvised. We do not have to keep on reverting to courts to get such an authority to compel a governor to appear before this Senate. Therefore, I concur with the sentiments that have been made by my colleagues. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Speaker Sir. These days, I have decided to be a very good boy. It is unfortunate that when I talk nicely, people start casting negative aspersion against me. When I ask for the Order Paper in the Senators’ WhatsApp group forum, they start asking me questions. Surely, there are honourable Speakers and also the Chief Whip and also Senators here. Even when I do well, they keep asking me questions. Protect me from hon. Senators here. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Bill for several reasons. First, this is a Bill that was moved by the Cabinet and the Government experts have gone through it. The Bill has also gone through the National Assembly, which has considered it. Therefore, I belong to a school of thought that--- view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: No, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Maybe you could just--- view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise. Allow me to finalise my point; I will clarify what I was saying. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the point I am trying to ventilate is that this Bill has undergone a lot of scrutiny in terms of expert input. I would urge the Members of this honourable House to consider the input that has been done by those other institutions. They may be erroneous; I am not saying that they bind this House. However, I am trying to convince Members that, indeed, there was a lot of stakeholder involvement in the processing of this Bill. Therefore, we need to take that into account. Most importantly, we need to know the history of these ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: authorities. Compare that with the LAPFUND, which is an entity that is created by a statute and pays people in lump sum. This in essence may be positive, particularly, taking into account that it looks more into the lower cadre of people who work in the local authorities. Of course, they have the option to get periodical payments. However, taking into account that they save very little money through the fund and, therefore, if you were to pay them on a monthly basis, you are talking of paying an employee for instance about Kshs1,000 on average. Therefore, when you pay ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Most importantly, it is not in the public interest for us to have a fund that is managing pensions on behalf of workers, which is quasi private and which is not audited by the Auditor-General. There are instances where the LAPTRUST money is audited by a private entity and is not accountable to Parliament. Any state corporation reports to the Public Investments Committee (PIC)of the National Assembly or to the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investments (CPAIC) of this House--- view
• 29 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, these are material points because one of the key proposal, which is a contentious point, is that this Bill proposes to collapse the two into one. Therefore, I must try to convince Members why we need to do that. This is because from where I sit, LAPTRUST takes money from county workers but is a private entity. Therefore, there is a danger of allowing those two entities remaining as they are. We need to collapse them, which is the rationale. That is the point I am trying to drive to Members. If we allow LAPTRUST to ... view