James Opiyo Wandayi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: Within the last five years or so, the public debt has risen in a manner you cannot imagine. The problem is that the justification we are given for this rise does not hold any water. You will read the Report and get shocked at the statistics. Without going into details, the fact of the matter is that this country has in the last few years engaged in a borrowing spree. This is a matter that needs to be addressed by this House in one way or another. I understand the Departmental Committee on Finance and National Planning is dealing with ... view
• 3 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: As I conclude, PAC continues to discharge its mandate in a most object manner. As I said earlier on when we got into office, we shall continue to discharge our mandate and responsibility without fear or favour. We shall continue to point out these irregularities and illegalities openly and transparently. We need to rein on accounting officers and the appointing authority being the President to help Parliament. We have even recommended that we make amendments to the law and empower the Auditor-General to approve the officers given the mandate of being accounting officers. If an accounting officer has recurrent audit ... view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House: view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Report of the Public Accounts Committee on the Examination of the Financial Statements for the National Government for the Financial Year 2016/2017. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as I lay this Paper on the Table. I wish to inform the House and by extension the country that this is the Third Report that PAC of the 12th Parliament is tabling. As I The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: table this Report, the Committee has embarked on examining the last report that has been circulated to the House by the Auditor-General. That is the Report for the Financial Year 2017/2018, which God willing, we shall be tabling early next year in the next Session. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, my Committee is doing very well and I thank you for your support. view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you once again, Hon. Speaker. I beg to give notice of the following Motion: view
• 27 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Public Accounts Committee on its examination of 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. Thank you. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to comment specifically on the Petition by the Member for Ikolomani, Hon. Shinali, for two reasons. Firstly, that road is not just Sigalagala-Butere. The complete name of the road is Sigalagala-Butere- Sindindi, which is also in my constituency. The issues that affect his constituency also affect mine as well. Secondly, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) is grappling with the land compensation issue as we speak. Even though the law on compulsory land acquisition is clear, I may want to invite the Committee on Delegated Legislation to look at the regulations that support this law ... view