Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, another key observation that we have made, as a Committee, is with regard to the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF). It is quite interesting to note that out of the Kshs38 billion that is allocated to the NHIF, 14 per cent is spent on their operations. This should have been limited according to International Best Practice of 5 per cent. But curiously so, that Kshs22 billion out of the Kshs38 is going to private hospitals; Kshs8billion to faith-based hospitals and another Kshs7 billion to Government hospitals. In terms of the distribution of hospitals, Government hospitals are 48 ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Similarly, there is no proper mechanism, this being a devolved function, to ensure that it is attained. It remains a suggestion on paper, yet this is the backbone of our economy. What is called the international division of labour has relegated countries such as ourselves to be primary producers or raw materials. We are the 21st Century and, therefore, we must benefit from what we produce. The only way to do so is through proper allocation of resources. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: The same case also applies to health. There is a requirement that we provide for 15 per cent, but when you look at the resource envelop, a lot of it is wasted by the Ministry of Health rather than devolved units. We also have clawing back of resources. The Constitution requires, at the very minimum, that 15 per cent of our resources be allocated to counties. If that was the case, what would be the use of conditional grants? Conditional grants are given in such a way that the national Government superimposes its will upon county governments to implement its ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: It is also true that when you look at the overall microeconomics, our political economy is hinged on our political activities. Productivity has gone down because of the charged environment on the Building Bridges Initiative (BBI). Some questions are political but touch on the economy. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I support the passage of the BPS Report. The recommendations should not just be suggestions by Parliament. We expect the National Treasury not only to look at the Report but also the HANSARD to know what Senators and Members of the National Assembly suggested. Certainly, there is a great ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I second. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to reply. I am delighted to reply in your presence, because it gives me very good memory. The first time I ever saw you chairing a Parliamentary Session was way before I became a parliamentarian, in the 9th or 10th Parliament. You continuously execute your roles very well. Recently, I discovered that you work very hard and late into the night. Madam Temporary Speaker, let me proceed by thanking all the people who have made robust contributions to this report of the 7th Independent Commission against Corruption (ICAC) meeting that was held Hong ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Article 171(f) of the Constitution illustrates a situation where two advocates of the High Court can sit in the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) and at the same time practice before the same judges that he or she has approved. You will remember that this has been a very serious contestation around the case of Ahmed Nassir Abdullahi, Tom Ojienda and others, who represent the Law Society of Kenya (LSK). Therefore, some of these issues boil down to professional ethics. As we had noted, for every corruption case, there is a professional – there is an engineer, an accountant and all ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: but rather to settle political scores. If that is done as a means of fighting corruption, where people sign a code of ethics and the party can discipline them, then people will know that the party will not send them to Parliament, the Cabinet or to independent constitutional commissions if they are corrupt. Interestingly in China, if you belong to the Communist Party of China (CPC), you are not supposed to be a member of any religion. You are supposed to renounce your own religion. That means that one is only guided by the party’s rules and what they call ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: The other issue that I also want to comment on is the role of state-owned enterprises. We have clogged our public system with state-owned enterprises that only ask for money from the Exchequer. If you look at the public guarantee, companies such as the Kenya Airways (KQ), the Kenya Railways (KR), the East African Portland Cement Limited (EAPCL) and the rest have been guaranteed in terms of hundreds of billions, but they have been run down through corruption. That is why the KQ, which is the pride of Africa, has been outdone by the Ethiopian Airways, yet it was the ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, you can see the role of state-owned enterprises which do not have a ‘sunset clause,’ so that they can only operate for 10 or 20 years before they dissolve. This is unless Parliament feels that they need to continue, then they come to report progress of what value for money or what change they have done in society. We have about 575 state-owned enterprises and semi-autonomous government agencies that continue to inflate our bills and siphon out money. Recently the state-owned enterprises were classified into categories A, B and C. They now have over compensated salaries for ... view