Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: First, the Committee recommended that the National Treasury should ensure timely release of funds to county governments, in line with the Cash Disbursement Schedule approved by the Senate. The Committee also further recommended that county executives should map out revenue streams and automate revenue collection points. This was a challenge because you have been given some money by the national Government but you are supposed to match this money with your own sharable revenue. You will find that the Exchequer does not release money on time. So, if you are building a facility for 300 beds, you only end up ... view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: The other recommendation was that county executives should strictly adhere to budget ceiling for development and recurrent expenditure, as stipulated by the annual County Allocation Revenue Act. In line with this, we also recommended that accounting officers must strictly adhere to Section 154(1) of the Public Finance and Management Act. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: This must be the wrong--- Are you making me look like the Governor of Embu County? You are giving me the wrong file. I am reading these ones and they relate to the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee (CPAIC). view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: So, I will just be very brief on some of the recommendations that we came up with. Although, some of those recommendations that I have read out there cut across even on this other report. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: One of the observation that we made was that county governments did not consider the donations that they received, either from the national Government or other donors, as part of their big budget. They had not foreseen that this was a pandemic and had not done a supplementary budget. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: Therefore, we made a recommendation that future disbursements of COVID-19 pandemic funds, should be in addition to the County Revenue Allocation (CRA) allocation criteria, based on realistic work plan developed and approved by the respective county governments. This would then provide an effective and efficient framework for utilization of the funds to mitigate against value for money risks. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, we noted that most county governments did not plan well on how to utilize that money. It is because it was not part of their budget but a pandemic. So, they did not have work plans on how they would spend the money that they were given. They hurriedly spent the money. After spending, they would now create new work plans. That was a big challenge in all the 28 counties that we went through. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: The second recommendation that we made in relation to how the COVID-19 pandemic funds were spent, was that appropriate sensitization be done for the county public finance management officers, on public finance and risk management during crises and health pandemics. This will improve the capacity of county human resource to respond to COVID-19 pandemic and other related risks in an efficient, effective, economical and ethical manner. view
• 23 Mar 2022 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, earlier on, I raised a point on people who took advantage of COVID-19 pandemic, where the prices were hiked. In fact, here in the Senate, we were told many stories of dead stock which is still lying in KEMSA. So, it is important that all the 47 counties start training there personnel on how to behave in the event of any risk or pandemic, in terms of management of resources. view