Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will take less than five minutes. view
• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Let me also contribute to this Bill on procurement and disposal by the Government and say it is a good document from the word go and I support it. In clause 45, it advocates where the Accounting Officer identifies different officers in the process of procurement. For example, when it comes to initiation of the process, it will be a different person. When it comes to the process and reception of goods, they will be different personalities. Then when it comes to disposal, it is well advocated that the person who will identify the ... view
• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: In clause 44(2), it advocates where the Accounting Officer has to procure goods within the approved budget especially by Parliament. This is slightly different from where an Accounting Officer will spend and later try to justify using post-dated approvals. 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 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, it really advocates that any Accounting Officer has to put his signature in the entire contract. This one will make sure that the Accounting Officer is held responsible in case of any contravention of the contract. view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to contribute to this very important Bill and it is constitutional. The rationale behind the creation of the Office of the Auditor-General is to ensure that public money is utilized in a prudent, efficient and transparent manner. You will find that taxpayers pay taxes so that this money can be put into proper use. It does not make any business sense or country development sense if this money is collected as taxes and then it is misappropriated. This is why the Office of the Auditor-General is created. So, apart ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Apart from auditing the national Government, the Auditor-General’s Office is responsible to audit another 46 governments; the county governments and all the Ministers in charge of our various sectors. It is also responsible for auditing constitutional offices that we have in our country and other public sectors including Parliament and all the courts. Therefore, it requires real empowerment so that it can make sure real auditing is done. In the process of accounting, if that section of auditing is not well taken care of, then it means that there will be a lot of wastage. If there is a lot ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: There is a lot of corruption going on in our country and it can only be captured if we have a very good audit Office and the personnel properly selected. If you put somebody who is corrupt into the system then what you will be doing is extending corruption. I do not know whether some Kenyans had ever realized that stealing public money is equivalent to a person stealing a cow in the middle of Pokot. The concept is the same. The difference is that this is stealing from the Government while the other one is stealing from an individual. ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, having said that, the accounting officers should be held responsible for the money given to them. In other countries, for example, you will find that the budget allocated to an accounting officer depends on how much he accounts 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
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: for the previous funds that were allocated to that sector. So, we should try as a country to see how we can factor this one. If an accounting officer is misappropriating funds, there is no point of giving that accounting officer another allocation or budget to spend. We should also have a very good correlation between what is reported by the Auditor- General and the report we get from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) and the Public Investments Committee (PIC). When the PAC, for example, recommends a certain sanction, then the country or the enforcers should ensure that the reports ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: We would also hold responsible the accounting officers who allow this uncontrolled expenditure at the accounting points. You will find that an accounting officer will misappropriate money and the following year, he will use the same trick to continue misappropriating funds, for example, the current issue that is going on now about Mumias. If it went ahead for about eight years unreported, then it means that our auditing function was not operating at that particular time. We hear from our international community that there is a lot of misappropriation at the county level and we are not taking care of ... view