John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute to this Report. I support the Report by virtue of the amount of effort that has gone into it in terms of The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: attempting to understand what goes on in the world of parastatals and without which State corporations would become rogue. Despite the Auditor-Generals’ annual reports and the Committee’s consolidated reports every couple of years, it looks like the issues continue unabated. That should be a cause for worry because the parastatal sector, in many ways, is important to the nation. Parastatals engage in strategic business that would easily turn into a major risk if left to be handled by private hands. Parastatal services are very important indeed. They include postal services, maritime services and so on. It bothers me that parastatals ... view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: For the average person, retirement time is the lowest time in terms of income flow. Once you retire, you probably are going to make no more than 30 per cent what you were earning before. So, when you find that your own savings in NSSF have not been remitted, it is big blow. In my view, that is a serious offence on the part of the employer. view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I was saying that the punishment ought to be very severe. In some Governments, for example, the USA, things grind to a halt if budgets are not approved. There is no reason for operations of a parastatal to grind to a halt unless the heads of that parastatal mismanage the funds allocated to them. If it is lack of remittance from the Treasury, then they ought to be accountable for it. Doctors have been on strike and now it is the nurses. People’s lives are in danger. Kenyans continue to bear huge losses occasioned ... view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Many people have become very rich simply because they entered the Government. One typical way in which they have become rich is by acquiring properties that were in the first place, public property, for instance, land. I could give an example of the Postal Corporation of Kenya where large tracks of land were valued generously by the public valuer at close to Kshs1 billion. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: The land was then taken over by individuals. I think this manner of back-entry enrichment of individuals must be strongly condemned. We should not allow people to take over public assets and make them their own yet nothing is done about it. A lot of these cases have been referred to the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC). I believe the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) can aggressively take over the cases and prosecute the culprits view
• 13 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: One of the most stringent laws we have in this country is the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. That law says that if you take imprest you should surrender it within 48 hours. It is amazing that there are senior persons who can tolerate the issue of imprest not being surrendered. We know that there are people who use imprest as a form of a loan advanced to them. They are aware that once they retire or leave the institution, nobody would follow them up. Sometimes people die and the institutions say that they cannot recover the money. Nobody talks ... view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to contribute on this discussion on the Second Supplementary Budget. I am a bit pained by what has been going on in this country in the last several months, part of which is being sought to be fixed through funding in this Supplementary Budget. view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: Last year, we cut back the allocation to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) because of a court case. Funds remained with the Government and were going to be disbursed through a mechanism which was not contestable as direct disbursement to schools. We went ahead and committed ourselves to schools and it turned out to be a lie because of two reasons. One, the amount disbursed in my constituency is less than half, and two it was the simplest method of distribution of giving equal amounts to all schools irrespective of needs. That is not what we expected and ... view
• 7 Jun 2017 in National Assembly: The second thing is that the northern part of this country faces drought every year. To wait until people have lost lives and their only assets in life and then come up with a post-life loss compensation is cruel. No supplementary budget passed three weeks to the end of the fiscal year is going to fix the drought problem. We are trying to hoodwink Kenyans. There is strong global experience that countries that are almost entirely desert have been able to invest resources in water and in forage, including importing adequate forage into those areas and taking other measures in ... view