Johnson Arthur Sakaja

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: This Bill reduces all bureaucracy and gives effect to Article 227 of the Constitution when it comes to matters of procurement. It streamlines the implementation and even reduces all the approval processes that have been there. This then puts us in a proper and harmonised framework for engaging in PPPs. view
• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Bill provides for the roles of the national Government and county governments; that a county government may enter into PPPs agreements. All they need, then, is some simple validation or discussion at the national level. However, it is not that it is going through all the stages to be blocked by the national Government. The county government is responsible for administration over the overall project. The Bill provides for public participation. I think that is what Sen. Omogeni said needed to be strengthened, because public participation must have an effect. Sometimes we have token public ... view
• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: There is that liaison between the Directorate and the county governments as well as the different departments. There is also the issue of sustainability. I am glad that there is some small PPP facilitation fund that is created. It will make the processes easier and they can even spread out some of the functions of this Directorate, so that it is not just at the National Treasury level. You can imagine having all the 47 county governments come to the National Treasury. I know that there is a good group of incoming governors. Some of them will come from this ... view
• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: The Bill solves the problems that were there before. The steps that were there in the PPP Act before did not have timelines in the processes. Now, part of the efficiency that Mr. Kirigua and his team are proposing is that every step of the project approval for PPP has a timeline by which it must be concluded. That way, we will not have documents lying. Those who have been in Government will tell you that documents do not just lie because they want to. They get lost and just stay in drawers because sometimes people require facilitation to get ... view
• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 5 Oct 2021 in Senate: bring these sorts of documents, this will be done in 20 or 30 days. This will lead us to a better regime. There is also the provision for oversight and the entrenchment of devolution in the Committee on Devolution, where county governments are represented in the PPE Committee. Of course, we would have preferred it to be stronger. I do not know if the Committee on Finance and Budget has provisions for that. I hope they do. One of the beautiful things about this Bill is that it then gives room for concession for brownfield projects. Many of what we ... view
• 30 Sep 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to thank Sen. Kang’ata for thinking about the plight of Kenyans living in the diaspora. In supporting this Bill, we must recognise Kenyans living abroad in hundreds of thousands because they are a huge part of our economy. view
• 30 Sep 2021 in Senate: Indeed, those Kenyans continue to raise the flag of our country and they are our first ambassadors. For many people who come from other countries, their first interaction is with Kenyans living in those countries all over the world. view
• 30 Sep 2021 in Senate: It has been stated that our biggest foreign income earner are remittances. That is a good and a bad thing. It is a good thing because it shows that those Kenyans are still connected to the country and concerned about their families and relatives living in Kenya and they send them money. view
• 30 Sep 2021 in Senate: It is a bad thing because it shows that our balance of trade has gone down. A country’s biggest foreign earner must be a product of trade. It must be what we export as opposed to just money coming back to the country. So, every coin has two sides. There is the positive and the negative but because of that, we must acknowledge. view