Kathuri Murungi

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• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: So, this is an opportunity we have and the matter should be addressed as a national matter. A Report should be brought to the House for further discussion. view
• 15 Oct 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Ninth Report of the Special Funds Accounts Committee on the Audited Financial Statements for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF) for the twelve constituencies in Kiambu County for the Financial Years 2013/2014, 2014/2015 and 2015/2016, laid on the Table of the House on Tuesday, 25thFebruary 2020. Hon. Speaker, because of the time limit of 10 minutes, I will highlight only the key areas that this House needs to know. This Report contains observations, findings and recommendations derived from the Committee’s examination of 36 ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: This is a Fund which is overseen by Members of this House directly. This is a Fund that has actually transformed this country. If you compare what this Fund has been able to do and what has been done by the other funds that get to the constituencies, you will realise that this is one of the best funds that have really transformed our constituencies. The key observation that we made is that there is no standardisation of the NG-CDF projects. We found out that two classrooms of the same measurement can cost Kshs600,000 in one area and Kshs1 million ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: constituency. In most cases, the original documents on projects are with the project management committees (PMCs). The recommendation is that every fund manager must have a complete file for every project. That file should be in the FAM’s office. This is so that when the auditors get to the constituencies, they are able to give them all the documents that they need to do the audit. Most problems we found are that auditors do not get documents. When they go to the constituencies, they spend three days, five days and a week and later on, they leave their constituencies without ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for being magnanimous. The last one was on oversight committees. In the NG-CDF Act, 2016, we established oversight committees in the constituencies. Those committees are not functional in the constituencies. This is simply because there was no allocation for their allowances. There is money for monitoring and evaluation which is done by the FAMs and the NG-CDF Committee. Those are the people who implement the project. If I am the chairman of this committee, that money should be put under oversight committee. You cannot do the project then after a few months, you go to mark ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I really want to thank Members of this House who have given wonderful suggestions on the way this Fund should be run. To be honest, my Committee has benefitted from the contributions of the Members. In future, we will give more input into the suggestions that have been put across. I want to thank the Office of the Speaker for giving us permission to work even during the COVID- 19 Pandemic. He has even allowed us to travel to Mombasa in the next one week to tackle the Coast region constituencies which are almost ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: adopted by the House. The Board should take up that task and provide funds for the social impact assessment of the NG-CDF since its establishment. For this Fund to be safe, as Members have put it, it should be a constitutional fund like the Equalisation Fund, so that it is not under any threat from any regime that assumes power. As it is, somebody can say, “In my budget, I do not want NG-CDF to receive part of the development funds. Let that Kshs36 billion go through the ministries.” That policy can work. But if this Fund is anchored in ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to support this amendment Bill from the Senate. As many colleagues have put it, there is lack of transparency in the way revenue collection is administered in the county governments. So far, if you look at the targets of revenue that the defunct local governments used to collect, we expected to have more revenue collections this time of devolution. There is no county government that has achieved the revenue collection targets which have been put by the Controller of Budget and the Treasury. Indeed, this is a big challenge. One thing that ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: levies from different services. Therefore, if cash handling can be minimised at those collection points, then we can have a good system that will give the county governments good collections. We need very aggressive and independent county assemblies. What is happening now is that there is a lot of muzzling of the county assemblies by county executives. County assemblies are not independent; they are not able to determine what they should spend. So, they are slaves of the county executives. That is why the county assemblies are not able to do their oversight role. These should be done in a ... view