James Mathenge Kanini Kega

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• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I request with your indulgence, if I can relax my mask. Hon. Speaker, I beg to move: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on the 2021 Budget Policy Statement and Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 4th March, 2021 and- (a) approves the 2021 Budget Policy Statement and Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy; (b) further makes the policy resolutions contained in the First Schedule to the Order Paper; (c) approves the Budget Ceilings for 2021/2022 Financial Year as set out in the Second Schedule ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: therefore, my pleasant duty and honor to present to this House, the committee’s report on the two aforementioned policy statements for the Financial Year 2021/2022 and the medium term. The 2021 BPS and the MTDS have been prepared at a time when the global economy is grappling with the adverse effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing containment measures. Domestically, the Kenyan economy has experienced a significant income productivity losses arising from the pandemic. Indeed, by the end of the third-quarter, of 2020, the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS) estimated that over three million Kenyans were unemployed. This ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: That the National Treasury to develop a policy to enable the reduction of unproductive and non-target tax waivers and tax breaks in order to protect revenue. This should be submitted to Parliament alongside the Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2021/2022 by 30th April 2021. We need to get revenue which comes from taxes. However, there were some tax waivers and exemptions in the past which are completely needless. That is what we want to check. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The National Treasury should also review compendium of the Government projects and consider deferment of new ones by one financial year, while ensuring adequate counterpart funding and provision of funds for stalled projects before finalisation of Budget Estimates for the Financial Year 2021/2022. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, our House pays over Kshs400 million for rent to Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC). We also pay another Kshs60 million to other private offices for Members of Parliament. We do that basically because the office block that is supposed to be occupied by Members of Parliament is not complete. My Committee has committed to provide enough resources to make sure that the new office block for the Members of Parliament will be complete and ready for occupation by October. We want to lead by example by September this year. Each and every year, the Government spends billions of ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: During the finalisation of the Budget Estimates of the Financial Year 2021/2022, the National Treasury should take into account the pending bills and ensure that they are adequately provided for within the approved expenditure. National Government-Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) falls under this. We say all the time that the first charge should always be pending bills. Unfortunately, this does not happen. The Government has accumulated billions of shillings over the years in terms of pending bills. There are too many people who are suffering out there. They provided services and goods to both the National Government and the county governments. ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: I also want to hasten and say that there are also some Members here who have been complaining that they have not received their funds and yet they have not submitted their proposals for their constituencies. I was informed that there are Members who provided their proposals a week ago, but they have been waiting for money to be disbursed to their constituencies. How will the money be disbursed to the constituencies without providing the proposals? That is an issue that we are taking seriously. The National Treasury has committed that every week, they will be releasing Kshs2 billion. If ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: The National Treasury should restructure State-owned enterprises, especially the highly indebted ones which are unable to meet their operation cost with a view of privatising some of them. This House passed the Privatisation Commission. We have a board which is asleep. We need to privatise most of the parastatals which are milking the Government every other day, but are not economically viable. The Government has no business doing business. It should be put very clearly that moving forward, some of the agencies that are not making profit every year will not be funded by the Exchequer. view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: With regard to the sectorial policy recommendation, we propose that this House approves the attached Annex 1 which provides a list of all policy recommendations. These are drawn from Annex 2 which is the summary of the departmental committees’ observations and recommendations which have been discussed and approved by the Committee. We took into consideration all the recommendations that were brought forward by the departmental committees. I really want to thank the Chairs of the various departmental committees. The last committee came The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report ... view
• 4 Mar 2021 in National Assembly: before us on Friday past midnight. So, we met up to 2.00 a.m. I want to thank the various departmental committee Chairs and Members for their commitment. view