Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Oct 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, we cannot forget the history outside the mausoleum. There is a time I visited Kapenguria, where we have a jail where Jomo Kenyatta spent most of the time serving his term. There are some artefacts there, including the basin that he used while serving his term there. Those items should be brought to the mausoleum. As I conclude, we have personalities in Africa who are remembered. When you are in South Africa, you must visit Soweto and the house where the late Mandela lived when he was agitating for the independence of South Africa. It is a ... view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: There is an observation that I have made. I plead with the House to allow some of these changes. Although baba said there should be no change even a comma, but we have to clean up this Bill. For example, if it is just a matter of grammatical error or where the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs felt the sentence is not correct, why can we not be logical and change the grammatical error without changing the meaning? view
• 1 Sep 2016 in National Assembly: There is an observation that I have made. I plead with the House to allow some of these changes. Although baba said there should be no change even a comma, but we have to clean up this Bill. For example, if it is just a matter of grammatical error or where the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs felt the sentence is not correct, why can we not be logical and change the grammatical error without changing the meaning? view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Yes, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I think we are likely to mutilate this Report such that it will have a very different focus. view
• 24 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: This was a negotiated document. We had seven members from the Minority Party and seven members from the Majority Party. Accepting amendments from the other side would imply that their negotiating team has increased to eight members while ours remains seven members. My take would be that we either throw the whole Report out or we adopt it without amendments. view
• 17 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this important petition that I brought before this National Assembly. My question would be when it would be implemented because I have been talking about this issue in so many offices. I visited the offices of the CS, the Principal Secretary (PS), the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) and the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) so many times until I decided to bring a petition. The people of Ongata Rongai and Kiserian are really suffering. Every evening and morning, you will find traffic jam extending about three ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support the PAC Report for the 2013/2014 Financial Year. The impression you get when you go through this Report is that financial reporting in this country is not very good. It appears as if it is overlapping. You will not see a very clear demarcation between one financial year and the other. The overlap has become so large it has affected the accounting period of the following year. Also, there is an observation that Accounting Officers do not respect the management letters written by the auditors. The relationship ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: The use of IFMIS is also not helping. It is actually complicating issues. Despite the fact that corrupt transactions are captured in the IFMIS, nothing is being done to bring the perpetrators to book. It is high time we woke up as a country and make sure that public financial resources are not misappropriated. If we do not do so as a country, we will take very long to develop. We should also start giving auditing a different approach. Performance based auditing can help. For example, a building can be audited based on its value. I also request the decision- ... view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Lastly, I emphasise that Accounting Officers should make more use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and device methods of ensuring that contractor are paid directly from the National Treasury, instead of funds being moved to the ministries and departments, and then to contractors. This arrangement has created a very long process, leading to public money getting wasted in the process. view
• 16 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: With those remarks, I support the Report. view