Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, based on the proceedings of this conference, it was clear that all the Government projects should be frozen six months to elections. There should be no new Government projects six months to elections. This is because part of the challenge we have with some of the pending bills not being verifiable, is because they were issued close to elections. This must have been certainly to finance the would-be officials who were running for office. That has caused a huge tax burden. We are currently looking at pending bills totaling to Kshs150 billion, some of which have been ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: I, therefore, concur that there are legislative proposals that need to be brought to bear, so that we can curb corruption. I believe that we are making progress, but sometimes when I look at the EACC, which is under resourced and underfinanced--- I visited the EACC just the other day with the APNAC, where I serve as secretary, and they informed us that they do not have enough money to pay their staff. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the asset recovery outfit that we just created does not also have enough resources. The CEO, Ms. Muthoni Kimani, cannot go and take the monies from corrupt individuals due to lack of resources. However, they have managed to recover a number of properties worth billions of shillings. We need to strengthen the refinancing of these institutions, including the DPP, so that they can execute their mandate. view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: We need to set up a specific anti-corruption court whose integrity can be easily audited. The problem is that we have so many courts. You can go to any High Court to report corruption, but it is very difficult to track corruption cases due to judicial back log and the clogging in the system, which has been a serious challenge. 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
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I beg to reply that we adopt this report. As Sen. M. Kajwang’ has said, we should come up with a mechanism of not only increasing general knowledge on what needs to be done in the fight against corruption, but to find value for money. The MPs are paid a lot of per diems when they go out for these visits. Therefore, such reports should not just end up being reports that are discussed and left at that. We need to find ways in which we can go through those reports, get legislative proposals ... view
• 27 Feb 2020 in Senate: Integrity is a topic that I speak about passionately. I like to speak about our political economy and how our politics is organised. We currently have a platform to do that under the BBI. Our politics is organised around the issue of tribes. How is it organised around the issue of tribe? The nexus between the issue of tribe, war and disharmony in Kenya needs a lot of rethinking in terms of the kind of laws that we are making, as we reconfigure this country. This is because corruption is robbing us of our present and future; and tribalism is ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I pass condolences to the family that is affected in Vihiga County. The Committee should expedite the investigations, as we have ordered. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: On the issue of the Universal Health Coverage (UHC), I would like the statement to be enhanced further by the CS responding to the following. If you look at the NHIF allocation, you will realize a very interesting scenario in the number of hospitals that we have in this country. It shows that 48 per cent of hospitals are owned by the Government; about 38 per cent are owned privately, while the remaining 14 per cent are owned by faith-based organizations. From the indicated figure of Kshs38 billion that is dispensed by the NHIF to the hospitals, about Kshs22 billion ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Maputo Declaration requires that 15 per cent of the budget should go to the health sector. What mechanism has the CS put in to achieve this? We are looking at it as a mere declaration, yet it would go a long way in ensuring that UHC becomes a reality. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there seems to be a very interesting scenario where the national Government has gotten in contract with 40 counties, which have ceded power to even procure medicine so that it is done centrally yet the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (KEMSA) has not done that very well. What is happening? Are we rolling back on the gains in the fact that health is devolved? What is happening with regards to the sovereignty of counties, particularly the execution of the role of health as a devolved function? view