James Orengo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: While I essentially support this Motion, earlier on, Sen. Sakaja said that there is a lot of poetry in some of the documents that come from the National Treasury. It is like reading a document from the international community or the United Nations (UN). Normally, the meaning can be lost in translation. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: What does this report say about the state of the country? I want to begin by saying that this report gives the status of the country as being in very dire circumstances. That is the starting point. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: I was looking for something in the BPS because driving the economy and trying to ensure that the people of Kenya get services--- As Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. said earlier, when you realise that we have weighty problems facing the country, the next thing is to give recommendations, and also put on the table implementable proposals on how you are going to deal with the problems that confront the nation. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: As we discussed with Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr., budgeting is not about a wish list. It is about what you want to do for the country. The centrality of a budget process is not a matter of lateral legislation because it is in the Constitution. The Constitution requires certain guidelines to be followed to enable the country judge as to whether or not the Government in place is providing services as it should after taxing citizens. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: What does this report say about the condition or state in which our country is? If you look at the economic outlook, which is on page six of this report, the economic growth has gone down. There is uncertainty about growth because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It says that the economic performance in the first quarter of 2020 was 4.9 per cent and that was before the pandemic. In the second quarter, it was negative 0.7 per cent, and in the third quarter, it was negative 1.1 per cent. They say they are anticipating an improvement in the fourth quarter. ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: The root of our problem seems to be the COVID-19 pandemic. We say that everything is wrong about the economy because of the pandemic, but how we deal with it is also not clear. Somebody should tell me why Ghana should be the first country in Africa to get the vaccine from COVAX Fund that was put together to help developing countries. I think it speaks loudly why it has gone to Ghana and not here, but we are not asking ourselves those questions. I do not know whether we will be the second or third; South Africa has got ... view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I want to give you friendly advice. By the time we get there, there will be many vaccines coming from Government entities. I do not know whether persons who will get the right vaccine are those who walk by the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) offices and are invited. It seems the people who make the best deals in Kenya are those who just walk by, and not those who work and sweat. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: On that particular question about the economic outlook, we better admit that we are in dire circumstances. When you want to resolve a problem, you must admit in its entirety. Where are we going to get the money looking at revenue performance? There is no answer to it. They are saying that expected revenues have been falling and will continue to fall, and the economy is not performing. That is another bad outlook because all it points at is that without debt, probably we will not have a budget. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Moving to fiscal policy, this points to a matter which we had a discussion about on tax revenue and how we collect taxes. That is now an old story for the past three or four years. Although we collect, what we do with it is a big question. Now we are not even collecting. Again, we are in dire problems. view
• 25 Feb 2021 in Senate: Inflation rate is on page nine, and it is not a good story. The interest rates are there, and it is not a good story to hear about. The summary is nine pages. The penultimate page deals with the question of medium debt management strategy. Those nine pages are supposed to give some confidence. If I were an investor coming to Kenya, looking at the summary of the BPS, the conclusion is not to put your money into this economy. This is what this report says. I do not see anything positive about this BPS, which then is a derivation ... view