Isaac Maigua Mwaura

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: To what extent, therefore, do we say how one pilfers from the state and the perpetuation of the nation-state that is Kenya, as a colonial enterprise for extractive purposes? Again, you will find a lot of correlation in the roles of the state in a book entitled ‘ Why Nations Fail’ by Daron Acemoglu. So, we need to have a serious unpacking of this because it becomes a clarion call. You will find that a person steals money from the public, wins a political seat, and then they perpetuate the same by capturing the state, because they are part of ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, another thing that is clear from this issue is the role of the Judiciary in the fight against corruption. The Judiciary plays a critical role, and it came out clearly in the submissions that were made. Therefore, there is need for collaboration to ensure that judicial officers who come out boldly to fight corruption are also protected. This is because sometimes some corruption is state-sanctioned by the very people who occupy power. view
• 25 Feb 2020 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
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: The symposium was informed about huge infrastructural projects, which Kenya is currently doing, and that between 40 to 45 per cent in terms of materials of these projects go to waste because of corruption. That is inimical of this country. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: If you look at some of the roads being constructed, they do not even last for three years before they have potholes. How do you explain that a kilometre of the Dongo Kundu Bypass cost taxpayers a whopping Kshs1 billion? Is that not development corruption? Look at the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR). It has been estimated that it cost about three times what was supposed to be the case, yet this is loaded to the taxpayers to pay. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, currently, the annual rate of payment per every Kenyan, including a child who is born today, is Kshs138,000. The moment you have huge infrastructural projects, they not only stifle economic development because of low return on investment, but also end up increasing our debt stock, which currently stands at more than Kshs7.8 trillion, when our Gross Domestic Product (GDP) stands at Kshs9.8 trillion. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: In April this year, we will have another rebasing of the economy which happened in 2014. That means that somebody somewhere will tell us that we are “X” per cent richer than we were and that will increase debt appetite for the Government. The monies that are appropriated from borrowing are huge infrastructural projects, which the symposium observed that 40 to 45 per cent, and in some cases even 50 per cent, goes to development corruption. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Therefore, we need to audit these projects, so that it is not just at the end but from conception. This is because when people do feasibility studies, projects are said to be viable, while in the actual sense, they are not. view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, projects are said to be viable, while in actual sense they are not. To the polemical idea about budgeting, where you inflate the cost of budget, and when you get the kickback from the project, being the supervisor or the awarder, then you have no moral authority. You actually dent and dim your supervisory powers, and that leads to projects that do not last, are highly compromised and have no value for money for the public. There is also the role of professionals, as alluded to earlier, where you have compromised professionals as engineers or architects. These ... view
• 25 Feb 2020 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, please, give me five more, then I will be done. view