Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1 to 10 of 1711.

• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This being the third last day of the Third Senate of the 12th Parliament, and it is important that we celebrate the great work that we have done. This includes the Disbursement Schedule that is before the House. This is the Schedule that we have been using as a tool to guide how much every county has been getting. This Senate shall be remembered for the ten weeks that we haggled about the allocation. It was a very interesting moment. My good friend, Sen. Farhiya and I, were in the Committee on Finance and Budget ... view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: The novelty of our Constitution deliberately took away the Division of Revenue Bill as a money Bill. That was very deliberate. The Senate is not recused from oversighting the very counties that it was created to superintend upon. Therefore, that is something that we view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: 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
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: need to look at. We had an opportunity to discuss this with the Executive. There was some reassurance given, but they have never seen the light of the day. The elephant in the room is that Members of the National Assembly have always feared that if Senators were to be given money for oversight, they will be too powerful, as to threaten their very hegemony that has existed since 1963. I want to say unequivocally that the Senate is here to stay, to play its active role for the benefit of society. Counties are the new frontiers for development. Therefore, ... view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: 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
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: One of the things that of course should be done by the next Senate is to ensure that we have the Own Source Revenue Bill. It has not seen the light of the day. That Bill is paramount. It was discussed at the Intergovernmental Relations Committee and also went to the Council of Governors (CoG). However, it has not been passed, so that there are very strict measures about how that is done. We have had that conversation in all the devolution conferences and the legislative summits that we have had. Finally, on this Schedule, I do not know whether ... view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. From the outset, I oppose this increase of the public debt from Kshs9 trillion to Kshs10 trillion. How can we borrow the whole of our nominal Gross Domestic Product (GDP)? In this country, we have been lying to each other about the estimated wealth of this nation. It is very interesting because when I was in the National Assembly in 2014 or 2015 – it can be confirmed – we increased our public debt ceiling from Kshs3 trillion to Kshs4.5 trillion. I was in the Committee on Budget and Appropriations and the understanding that we ... view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: 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
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: Coalition or the current “handshake” Government – have not been bold enough to just have discipline on how much we spend. We have to live within our means. We have to cut our cloth according to size. Indeed, Madam Temporary Speaker, the population has increased. We are now 50 million strong Kenyans or thereabout. Even then, that does not justify the increase of public debt. The fact that Kenyans give birth to one million children every year does not justify the increase in expenditure. The austerity measures that we have seen the National Treasury trying to do have targeted the ... view
• 14 Jun 2022 in Senate: . This is to the detriment of the various aspects that, of course, make them feel closer to the Government, We are seeing an increase in expenditure around infrastructure. It is gobbling up a lot of public money, yet it is not properly regulated. What is the cost of a kilometre of road? What is the cost of these huge public projects? Is it really feasible to have a Kshs80 billion road? I used it the other day. For sure, I was surprised that it is only 10 minutes from the Airport to Museum Hill. However, is that really the ... view