Joseph Kirui Limo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 9 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity. I begin by really thanking you for the guidance you have given to this House since we came in in 2013. I remember the first time we met somewhere in town, in 2013, after we had just been elected in 2013. We had never met before, but I used to admire your politics especially during the times of KANU. You used to be very steadfast and you were still young. I really admired you. When we met, we started friendship and I was among the first people you talked to about you going ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: It is a great concern that Supplementary Estimates in this country have been turned into a rubber stamp. If this House is going to be respected, we must follow the law to the letter. We cannot be used as a rubber stamp. The items that have been listed, it is practically impossible to implement any allocations which have been put here which have not been spent. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Article 223 of the Constitution does not indicate in any way that it can be used by the National Treasury in making a Budget that has not been approved by this House. It was intended to be used in good faith on items that have not been budgeted for by this House. But what has happened is that the Executive, through the backdoor, have taken over the work of budget-making by ensuring that whatever they intend to do that has not been approved by this House or what this House does not intend to approve, they put it in Supplementary ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Treasury is to shoot down a number of supplementary estimates like this one. That way, we make sure that any application which is not supported by the law becomes spending without authority, so that those who do that are held responsible. But the moment we say that it has been spent and we pass it, we are legalising illegalities. There is a lot of spending which is inappropriate. The Hon. Late President Mwai Kibaki was good, and we were supposed to give him a very good send-off. But how can we support a heavy spending of Kshs260 million in just ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: As I conclude, yesterday we passed the extension of our borrowing limit, and there is a lot of danger there. It is very painful that this House passed it. It is very shameful that we do not consider how the borrowing is killing the economy of this country. There is a very dangerous trend in this country. Once we expand the borrowing limit, we are supposed to make sure that the National Treasury gives us the breakdown of borrowing. What has killed the economy of this country is not only borrowing in general, but the makeup of borrowing. During the ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Finally, the reason we have this Supplementary Budget is lack of planning. Let us challenge the National Treasury to plan properly so that when they bring the Budget to this House, they will have thought about it well, and it is well-funded. That is so that they do not come and ask this House, after passing the Budget, to pass extension or expansion of the borrowing limit, because we did not plan on how to finance the Budget. So, as I conclude, I am not going to support this Appropriation Bill. I ask this House to reject it so that ... view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important issue under discussion. There is a bigger issue I want to mention. The Leader of the Majority Party here has actually said that there was a time many students used to perform very well but they were not absorbed into public universities. Therefore, private universities started coming in. Previously, students had the option of choosing courses in public or private universities. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: There was a disease and it was …. view
• 8 Jun 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I stand guided. I was saying it is the reason why funding was given to private universities. Therefore, Article 201 of the Constitution was not addressed properly at that time. Ay public funding is supposed to be audited properly. The law then was not considered because there was a bigger disease of absorbing the students very quickly so that they could not lack education. So, the Government then decided to give private universities the students. But the issue of public audit was not addressed and that is very serious. Currently, no one has stood here even the Chair ... view