Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: With that, I support. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. This is an extremely important Bill. In my mind, it is to some extent an implementation of the Constitution in relation to devolution of PFM. In a way, it does reflect a bit of failure on our part to adhere to the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution - the transition to Devolved Government Act and Transition Authority (TA) because these are the issues which should have been looked at very carefully during that process. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It also implies that even the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC) which took over from TA has not filled the gap. Therefore, we end up in a situation whereby we are implementing constitutional arrangements through amendments in the law which would have been done properly at the beginning. So, the danger I am seeing is that if we are not careful with these amendments, we will find ourselves thoroughly restricting the counties in their financial management and operations. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Looking at many of these clauses you will find that we are trying to look at what should have been done. For example, look at Clause 3, which wants to indicate the approval of county entities and the role of the Senate in it. These are some of the things we should have looked into earlier. Clause 4 guides on how the Senate and other players are to move resources from one county to another. How is it possible that we have been having the County Allocation of Revenue Bill yet, we were unable to see how money should be ... view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: another? Hopefully, this is based on the needs of the counties, since it is something we are doing now. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Looking at Clause 6, it is stating that the county assemblies should request the Parliamentary Budget Office for capacity building where necessary. Looking at the TA and the Transition to Devolved Government Act, that is exactly what they should have done. Now, we are bringing this through amendments. Looking at Clause 5, it has further amended to clarify that it is only external borrowing that is limited. Again, this is an issue we should not be talking about now. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Also looking at Clause 13, you wonder how it has been. It states about ensuring that exchequer issues are reported per programme and project for effective monitoring. When exchequer is being released both at county and national level, if we do not do this, then we will have a blanket provision of money. So, the PSs will apply the money as, where and when they wish. Whereas, if you are in programme budgeting which has been going on in this country for over two years, when the money comes, it will strictly state what it is meant for. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Also Clause 6 is being amended to state the relevant entity as the one being referred to. We cannot have a law where there is so much ambiguity. Therefore, I find this Bill extremely important but we must look at it carefully. In Clause 38, the amendment further proposes to extend time to allow county governments sufficient time to prepare their annual development plans. If we had done this properly at the beginning, we would not find ourselves in this situation. view
• 13 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As I have said in this House before, when we come to the Division of Revenue Bill, we have no clue what is happening in the counties, while we have a lot of details of what is happening at the national Government. That is the cause of the frequent disagreements between the Senate and this House. I also like the bit that is talking about waiving. I think that is not related to counties. It is true that the ministers should be the ones to waive any taxes or fees. Obviously, that will reduce the amount of money that we ... view
• 18 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the adoption of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the ratification of Bilateral Air Services Agreements between Kenya and Jordan, Jamaica, Bahamas and the Protocol amending Air Services Agreement between Kenya and Turkey. I stand to support it. I accept that it is important enough to be discussed in a Special Sitting. The Air Services Agreement between Kenya and Jordan was done in 2008, Kenya and Jamaica one in 2014, Kenya and Bahamas one was done in 2016. The one ... view