John Sakwa Bunyasi

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• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: This is a weighty issue for Kenya. As we move on, one characteristic of a nation that is growing and loves it people is that every soul of its citizens matters. They will fly a plane to save one person from danger if it can do that. It will not sit back and simply watch and wait. We must get out of that mode. We are now a middle class economy. We are no longer where we used to be irrespective of how we feel about ourselves about our lack of jobs. We are now a middle class economy. We ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: In my constituency, I have schools that have been endangered so much so that for some of them, we are just glad that they have closed and if the rains persist to late December, they may be in danger of not sitting in those classrooms when we open in January. Schools in the northern part of my constituency like Opedur are tinkering as if they would fall. We need scientific drainage. It is a slope. There are soils that retain a lot of water and can shake the so-called permanent structures. What we need is the support and in that ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: drainage would help. I know my colleague from Budalangi would say a lot better but one reason Budalangi is not always on the front pages now is that the drainage and dyke systems that have been done are helping. The Government can do something. The Government must not sit back and say that is devolved yet it has no scientific solution to it. For example, we blame counties for lack of extension services. It had died at the national Government long ago. We are facing the same problem with disaster management. It is time we had well-conceived plan and its ... view
• 5 Dec 2019 in National Assembly: With that, I thank Hon. K’oyoo for bringing this Motion for Adjournment. I support. view
• 28 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to add my voice to this very useful discussion on the Supplementary Budget for the Financial Year 2019/2020. We have had an extremely intense engagement between the BAC and other key stakeholders, including committees and people from the ministries, particularly those from the National Treasury. It is always surprising when you get a high priority area of investment such as the Big Four Agenda. For any justification it was: “Oops, we did not budget for this!” How could that possibly happen? Either people are disorganised in the Ministry or… But the so-called matrix that ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: One reason I am unable to get a proper matrix, and I do not think I will get a proper one soon, is that many people do not have a clear idea of what is in those pillars. They have not thought through enough to extract from it the critical investments. So, things are coming out as if it is incremental, that is, bit by bit. I think that was the disappointing part of this process. Hopefully, they will crack that as we move forward. The second big area I would like to comment on is the issue of realism. ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: In Kenya we have begun to think that a large budget is a matter of pride. Such a budget is unfunded and will be funded by deficit. This simply means you do not have enough money to pay for it; you have to borrow or increase taxes. Those are consequences that the citizens of this country should expect to face. Both are dire consequences in a country where poverty is struggling to keep us at the base, instead of letting us fly off. So, when you have a deficit in the budget, you are either going to increase taxes which ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: We are talking about debt payment obligation that is well above 60 per cent of the monies we will raise in actual revenue. That is not a matter we should gloss over. I am appealing to the new Cabinet Secretary for National Treasury who is new on the block and who initially impressed the Committee as being open minded... They put everything on the table and said, we agree as a nation on what to do, but it turned out that not everything was on the table. This is because the way we have managed this process clearly indicates that ... view
• 28 Nov 2019 in National Assembly: I have a feeling based on the numbers we have and I cannot go into all the details because we do not have the time. On the Universal Health Care (UHC), the Committee has been generous. It has prioritised it but there is only one request; you had a pilot, evaluate the pilot and then let us see as you want to rollout, what should be rolled out more and what can be corrected. This pilot ended in June and we are now in November and we have no report. There is a serious push to have funds allocated. We ... view