John Sakwa Bunyasi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 951 to 960 of 1058.

• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Indeed, we are discussing a Report that is almost five years old but I think that there is something fundamental about it that needs to be put squarely before Parliament. That is the role and responsibility that Parliament has got in oversight. I am a Member of the PAC. One of the things we note when we attend the Committee meeting is the repetitiveness of claims or reports of wastage, year in year out. We are in an era when we are talking about issues of waste, the public wage bill and how to cut down on costs. What prevailed ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I start by noting that in last year’s Budget submissions, the budget for the Office of the Auditor-General was slashed significantly. This was just at the time when for the first time he was going to be reporting on all the 47 counties. I think hon. Members realize the centrality of this function and I hope that its budget will be restored fully, so that the office is in a position to give us more of these reports timeously. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: Before I get into the substantive points, being an economist, I am used to critical constraints. The Office of the Auditor-General is not faced with the critical constraints facing us in respect of these accountability documents. Even if he had given us the documents for 2012/2013 Financial Year, we would still be looking at the 2010/2011 Financial Year. Due to the volume of work, we have not even gone to the 2011/2012 accounts that you have already submitted. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: What is sad about it is that in the current Constitution – this has been mentioned and it needs to be re-emphasized – allocations to the counties--- The Division of Revenue Bill will be dependent on the findings duly approved or ratified by this House. This is the case, yet we are not there. My Chairman is here, and I know that he will be paying attention once hon. Millie lets him free; we have discussed how we can copy a model from Rwanda, which has been tied seriously on budget allocations. This means that they are very current in ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I will now come to the points that I wanted to raise. One of them is that I noticed a consistent waste management chain particularly in respect of the procurement function. That is from procurement to implementation. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: The reports we get clearly indicate that at the procurement, mistakes are made. I am using this phone as my note book and not because I am taking a call. Hasty decisions are made that privatize public resources. This is what has led us to get into the KenRens, Goldenbergs and all these things of today. There are errors in procurement judgements. We have the procurement oversight authority, and my appeal to it is that they must be vigilant, diligent and unrelenting. The other organs of State that are expected to take responsibility and where problems are identified, they ought ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: If we assign this entirely to the counties, we will miss a huge opportunity. It is like a doctor who thinks that your problem is in your leg when it is in your head or he thinks he should cut off the right leg and he cuts off the right arm. We must pin down the problem. It is not the existence of the counties that has created this problem. They are simply benefiting from what their fathers have done; their fathers are the national Government and its institutions. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: My colleague, hon. Manje mentioned that in Uganda, senior criminal investigations and intelligence officers sit in the PAC. We thought that was a little strange because our accounting officers might be reluctant to come out fully knowing that a CID officer is present. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: It is critically important that the transitioning of the findings from the PAC to the enforcement agencies needs to be re-rooked at. It should be instant. It does not have to wait to be told anything if in the evidence giving, it is clear that there has been some malfeasance. view
• 12 Mar 2014 in National Assembly: I am sure I do not want to speak on behalf of the Auditor-General, but he must be frustrated. He says so much. When he came before his House, he quantified, for once, the amount of waste as being over Kshs300 billion. Everybody was horrified. It made headlines in this country for several days and then it went quiet. That is what the PAC sees every day. I am hoping that as we become more current, we will be talking about people we have seen on the streets and people we saw yesterday. Lack of follow up is a major ... view