John Sakwa Bunyasi

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• 22 Apr 2020 in National Assembly: I oppose. view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Division of Revenue Bill, 2020. I have a few comments to make. view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Let me go to the end. We must protect this allocation of Kshs316.5 billion which will go to the counties. It is the same figure running the second year in a row. Inflation will take care of some of it. This means that the allocation will be effectively less than the value of Kshs316.5 billion last year. That is enough correction to force them to tighten their belt. We should not go further. view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Secondly, we should remember that the functions that were devolved are the areas where there was an attempt by this Republic to reach 47 million people who are in this country. Those funds will not go into the air. They are utilised by our communities in our villages and towns. I am fully aware of the shortfalls that arise out of mismanagement. First, we shall just talk about figures as if they will end up the way they should, whether in county governments or national The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Government ministries and State Departments. I urge very strongly that we protect that figure which has been allocated to the counties. view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We have talked about the risks in revenue shortfalls which have been notorious. Every year, the collections are way less than the projections. They, sometimes, end up inadvertently and without sufficient clarity in greater debts because you have to make up for the shortfalls that occur when actual numbers come in. We need to have great spotlight on this. The National Treasury must do that. After all, they have kept Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) deeply under their wing. They must shine a bright spotlight on KRA which knows what is happening in the rest of the world. They should ask ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: The second point is that we are giving Kshs316.5 billion to the counties second year in a row without reducing it. We know that there has been a lot of discussion on fair amount of abuse in this economy. Most of it is legitimate. There is misuse of resources through outward graft and non-existent projects which we have been told. It happens at the national Government and county governments. First of all, we should let the policy analysts tell us the extent it damages this economy and work out some numbers outside this kind of debate. While we are in ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the National Treasury must also come out and begin to help. They cannot just cry foul about this. When the CS, National Treasury was appointed last year, he was very clear in his mind. He persuaded many of us that the debt structure that we have is unsustainable and undesirable. He even implied that his predecessors did not give sufficient thought on what it should be. He promised that he would go out of his way as the new CS and we would see results. The debt structure between the short-term and long-term loans would be changed. He ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: We also have similar issues in domestic borrowing. The National Treasury is caught in a tough place. If you have annual 12-month borrowing, you either have to pay off or roll it over. So, your debt stays. Your debt snowballs and it does not reduce. The CS has to come out and tell this country how much of that he has succeeded to get that will have an effect on 2021 and the near outer years, say, the next three years. If that does not succeed, then we are going to be The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report ... view
• 17 Mar 2020 in National Assembly: caught in a trap where we shall begin to feel and see the consequences of unsustainable debt. This is a real problem that we are facing out there. Hon. Speaker, last year, we had an unsatisfactory process by how far we dragged out. I strongly suggest that this be approved as it is, in terms of the allocation to the counties and that, we should put the CS Treasury under fire for him to tell us how much he can squeeze out of KRA which is under his wing and what dividends we are going to get in debt restructuring. ... view