Dr. James Nyikal

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we may pass a second supplementary budget but it may not be necessarily a good thing. As I said yesterday, the budget process that Parliament is involved in today is a very intensive and complicated work and if you are not going to do it properly and end up having a first and second supplementary Bill, then it means we are not working properly. So, I think there is need for proper planning, proper 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
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: implementation and spending so that the money that is given out is spent and probably just one supplementary budget where money is required when all the money has been spent. However, to move money around because it is not spent is not a good thing and it is not good for the function that Parliament has gotten into now. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Mbadi indicated the processes of authority to incur expenditure and procurement which you cannot start until you have money and so really that has been a hindrance. I know that, but that is particularly worse when we are talking of the supplementary budget today when we only have a few days and then we cannot spend any more. view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, ideally by now going by the old habit, perhaps, there is already a letter instructing Principal Secretaries to stop spending and then here we are actually saying there is money to be spent. I know at that time we used to be disturbed. The money is coming now, what are we going to do with it? The procurement processes are such that it is not easy to use it. What happens is that people go on a spending spree on things that are easy to do but not probably necessarily of benefit. So, I think I wanted to ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the other thing I will say is that with the budgeting function, it does appear to me that we also need a monitoring function because the budget process now is programmed based on targets. Auditors will tell us where money was spent according to the law and how it was supposed to be spent. The auditors will not tell us whether the targets for which we gave money have been achieved. When Parliament is now budgeting, it must have the need to also know whether the targets have been achieved or not. I think those are important points. ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Let me also say one thing about the Euro Bond. I was opposed to payment but the issue is: who are we paying? What were we paying for? We passed the payment as a Committee although some of us dissented but now the money has come and I think it is good for the Budget. However, I think an impression is being created that this money is not a loan. People must know that this is a loan that Kenyans are going to pay for. So, as we celebrate I think we are called upon to actually be more meticulous ... view
• 25 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with that I support. view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for enabling me to get an opportunity. I stand to support the Motion. As a Member of the Committee, I am aware of the amount of work that has gone into this and I stand by the recommendations that the Chairman of the Committee made. However, I want to add a little to the issue of low absorption. All the time we have looked at the issue of procurement but there is an element that we have not looked at. It is the element of prompt release of the Exchequer. There are many times ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: it is today, you cannot award or go into procurement process until the money is available yet as we all know, the Exchequer released the first time happens in August or September and there is very little for major projects. Whereas it is important that we make laws for procurement, we should look at areas where we should relax them so that work can go on without waiting. It is also important to note that most of the reductions we have are in development and so if we are in a process where we are always reducing development, then we ... view
• 24 Jun 2014 in National Assembly: with the railway line. So, that is something that we should have in place. But the cost of Kshs1 billion per kilometer, maybe we need to look at that but we should go on. With those few remarks, I beg to support. view