Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I am very well informed now. That is what Huduma Centres are trying to do. When we went to the Huduma Centre in Eldoret to check what they are doing, all the registration is done at that point. The only problem is that it takes about two weeks for somebody to come to Nairobi and collect the document. We should improve distribution of IDs. How fast do they get to our citizens? This is a very important document. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this important Bill. I support this Bill whose principal object is to give effect to Articles 222, 228 and 252 of our Constitution. This is a creation of the Constitution. 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
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I would also urge the holder of this constitutional office to only submit to the Constitution. It is very easy to write a document, but when it comes to implementation, it becomes a challenge in our country because of interference from various sources. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Our Constitution is very good. It created this constitutional office with the objective of making sure that public funds are properly controlled. It goes to the respective areas, so that our country can grow a bit faster and the quality of the lives of Kenyans can improve. After the Controller of Budget controls, the money goes to the county and some to the national Government, but it ends up in pockets of some individuals. It fails to go directly to where it was intended. The net effect is that our country lags behind and it will take a lot of ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Various Articles of the Constitution have been touched in this Bill to improve the process of authorisation of public funds. The Bill gives the Controller of Budget powers to approve withdrawal of public funds from any account like the Consolidated Fund and any other fund that directly benefits Kenyans. The Controller of Budget, Accounting Officers and the Auditor- General should be in line so that public resources are properly channelled and supervised. When the process is over, namely, it is controlled by the Controller of Budget, the Accounting Officer incurs the expenditure. Then the Auditor-General audits the funds and reports ... view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I also envisage a situation where our Accounting Officers are to some extent permanent in their accounting areas. If the Controller of Budget approves withdrawal by a certain Principal Secretary and then within a short period that Principal Secretary is transferred to another department or Ministry, it becomes a bit difficult to try to trace where the expenditure was. This defeats the logic why the money was to be channelled to a particular Ministry. view
• 24 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: I would urge politicians and people of influence not to interfere with the performance of these constitutional offices. If we want to have a country that is governed by the rule of law, we should stop interfering. If you are a person of influence somewhere, you should not call an Accounting Officer to try and divert their attention. Do not influence the Controller of Budget or the Auditor-General. Even if you are in position of leadership, you would like to have good institutions which are performing. Unless we have institutions which are performing, our country will mark time without any ... view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this chance to also contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I would like to say that this is a very good document that can go far to mitigate the corruption that we have in the country. This is a situation where the institution that we expected to fight corruption finds itself in a very awkward situation where corruption is taking place right at the centre of the same institution. I tend to think that when the institution was given this money, it did not have good structures to manage the money. This ... view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: When we went further, we realised that the JKUAT had entered into another agreement with Align architects. The JKUAT was getting only 5 per cent of the proceeds. It then means that this was purely a private organisation and not the university’s enterprise organisation as they wanted us to believe. The Chief Registrar and the Judiciary purchased a house that was not properly valued. The official residence of the Chief Justice was bought at Kshs300 million yet there was no valuation. When we visited the house, we realised that it was not worth that much. It was actually being renovated. ... view
• 16 Feb 2016 in National Assembly: Therefore, as I support this Report, I would like to ask the Committee on Implementation to ensure that the Report is properly implemented, so that our country can change from being corrupt to a good country. I urge those who are corrupt to understand that corruption is stealing. When you engage in corruption, you actually steal from Kenyans. We should collectively ensure that public money is directed to where it is supposed to go. Otherwise, our country will remain impoverished. We will take a long time to grow. With those remarks, I beg to support. view