James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: This Bill is very progressive and timely. We need to support the Kenya Roads Board and give it strength. We need to support KURA, KeNHA and KeRRA. But as we support and strengthen them, let them also demonstrate to us that they are doing the work that they have been charged to do. view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: This country could go a long way if it could just concentrate on infrastructure; that is, roads, water and energy. Kenyans are industrious people. They will take advantage of the infrastructure to engage in their private businesses and create wealth for themselves and for the future generations. So, as this House approves this Bill, we want to put the officers in charge of those agencies and authorities on notice. They are in those offices to serve Kenyans and not themselves. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be ... view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I support. view
• 4 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you very much. I thank my colleagues for the contributions to this very important Motion. At this juncture, I beg to reply. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on its examination of the Report of the Auditor General on the Financial Statements for the National Government for the Financial Year 2016/2017, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday, 27th November, 2019. As I move this Motion this evening on the Floor of this House, I am indeed extremely proud of the work that PAC has been able to do in the last two years or so, bearing in mind that the Committee was inaugurated ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Committee has been able to ensure that, through its diligent work, monies being taken to the counties shall no longer be based on historical figures but shall be based on extremely realistic statistics. This will definitely mean that the counties shall get enhanced revenue allocation, a factor that can only contribute to the strengthening of devolution, as it were. On this account, I must say thank you to my Committee Members for the diligence they have exhibited throughout their work in the Committee. There will be no more excuse of people out there, sometimes out of ignorance, lamenting that Parliament ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: I wanted to listen to you carefully first. During supplementary estimates, we have both movements. There is a situation where we are increasing expenditures in other votes while decreasing others. The bottom line is that eventually we are unable to absorb all the money budgeted for in a financial year. The reason is that the money is not there in the first place. If we got time we could discuss that more and more. However, the fact of the matter is that we need to rein in this tendency of trying to mislead the country that we have money yet ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: pending bills. It happens, as I have said, as a result of inadequate or delayed Ex-Chequer releases. Secondly, we have the phenomenon of white elephants. If you go to the countryside, you will be confronted with very many projects that have either stalled or are progressing at a snail’s pace. This is not a demonstration of prudent use of public funds. Projects, once they are conceived and there is adequate budgetary provision, they need to be implemented within the specified timelines. That is when the country or the public can derive value for money. It is a no- brainer. The ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: We have; therefore, gone ahead to direct as a Committee, if this House agrees with us, that that scholarship programme be suspended with immediate effect until such a time that the Executive shall develop a policy paper and the requisite laws or guidelines to govern it. That is the only way to safeguard public funds. view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is even no parameter to determine whether so and so is permanent and the other one is not. It is basically left to the whims of a few people who wake up every day and decide to pay school fees for so and so’s child. This school fees is being paid in the most outrageous way. You find these children in the high level schools and when they go abroad they go to the most expensive schools. When they are in Kenya they go to those schools offering international programmes and yet Kenyan children of ... view