James Mathenge Kanini Kega

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• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move the following Procedural Motion: THAT, notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order 120, this House resolves to reduce the publication period of the Supplementary Appropriation Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 9 of 2021) from seven days to one day. This is a Procedural Motion and what we intend to achieve is to hasten the process. I am made to understand that the National Treasury has not been disbursing exchequer releases. If we can enact this, Ministries, Departments and Agencies will be getting their rightful share for this Financial Year. ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, the Supplementary Appropriation Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 9 of 2021), be now read a Second Time. Just to jog the memories of Members, we submitted a Report to this House last week on Thursday and it was adopted. Basically, this Bill is a copy and paste of the Report. I really want to thank Members who contributed to it; both who made their recommendations and those who had reservations. We assure you that we would take into account those comments as we move on. However, just ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: During our review of the Supplementary Budget, we noted that it was based on the need to take care of the post COVID-19 related interventions, payments of pending bills, salary adjustments, change in development-partners-funded-projects and also rationalisation of the budget, among other things. We also noted that the impact of the macro-economic framework upon approval of the Supplementary Budget is retained at the fiscal deficit, that is, 8.7 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product that is taking into account the amendments that were approved by this House It is, however, important to mention that if the arrears for the ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it is our expectation that the National Treasury will speed up the release of these funds to the relevant Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), as well as Parliament and the Judiciary. The Committee and this House expects that the spending agencies will be prudent and compliant to the fiscal responsibility principles in the utilisation of the appropriated funds, and focus on achieving the planned outputs and targets that will benefit the people of this great Republic. We continue to urge that priority in terms of requisition and payments should be focused on settlement of pending bills. Pending bills ... view
• 23 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you so much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really want to thank the Members who have contributed. We have heard your reservations some of which we have noted. We had provided for some in the Report. I want to say that the concerns have been noted and we will make sure they are followed up. We especially note the concern on pending bills. As I said earlier on, this country is choking because of pending bills. There are many people who have also lost their lives. Some have committed suicide basically because they did business with the Government. It ... view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Speaker. I beseech Members to listen to me just for a minute. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: When the issue of National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG- CDF) came to the Floor of the House, I caused a meeting between my Committee, the Constituencies Development Fund Committee and the National Treasury and the NG-CDF Board. We were informed then that the National Treasury had disbursed Kshs26 billion. They also gave us the timeframe that by the end of April, they would have exhausted the Kshs41 billion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for informationpurposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: There are Members here, and we have also be very candid and honest, who between 1st July 2020 this financial year up to Tuesday, have received in excess of Kshs100 million. That is a fact. view
• 18 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Let me explain. These are facts. view