Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Sen. Orwoba. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: They are the ones who carry out due diligence and discoveries on a matter. They spend hours and hours trying to make sense of any brief that they are given. However, you will find that senior lawyers are the ones who end up getting paid Kshs100 million for a brief. As a former member of the Senate Public Accounts Committee and the Public Investments Account Committee, I came across all these legal bills and how much they are. I do not know whether we have room for that because of our Standing Orders. However, this is a matter that I ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the amount of money we spend outsourcing for legal services in this country is ridiculous. We talk about government efficiency and making sure that we stop wastages of resources, but we are not doing it. Governors, left, right and centre, are using law firms to divert resources. It is that simple. You see a simple brief. We go through all these matters when we are looking at them. In my view, during the budget making process, county assemblies must be able to limit the amount of money that can be spent by the county government to outsource ... view
• 8 Apr 2025 in Senate: “Noting that some counties like Nairobi and Kitui counties have established a County Pending Bills Review Committee to verify all bills owed by the County Government and ascertain their real value, the Committee recommends that the county emulates the practice as a step towards management of clearing of pending bills.” Madam Temporary Speaker, all 47 counties have established pending bills committees. We know that. It is not going to help this Petitioner. I am sorry to say this, but I feel like the Committee did not do a good job in this matter, and that, this Petition has not been ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Let me begin by thanking the two committees and the distinguished Senator for Homa Bay County for telling us what is going on in this country. We do have serious fiduciary risk. Fiduciary risk comes about when those who are tasked with the fiduciary responsibility fail to do so. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: I have gone through the Report and I am ashamed of my own county when it comes to nugatory expenditures. Nugatory expenditures are those expenses which could have been avoided. They are the expenses that you do not have to pay penalties for if you pay your bills on time. You actually do not have to pay interest, and you do not have to pay legal fees. Unfortunately, we paid a whopping Kshs1.7 billion in terms of nugatory expenditures. Kajiado County also shocked me. They have about Kshs11.9 billion which the Governor could be collecting from rent arrears and paid ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I wish all senators were here to help us unfold this crisis. Listening to my colleagues, I am afraid that most of them do not understand that we have a serious problem. We are talking about the funds in this Additional Allocation Bill, yet the National Assembly has also come up with their version of the Bill. This is a crisis. There was a famous movie, Apollo 13, a space mission in 1970, in which Jim Lowell came up with the phrase, "Houston, we have a problem”. Kenya, we have a problem. Right now, ... view
• 27 Mar 2025 in Senate: is not collecting money in Narok, such that you do not send any money from the court fines? We should now be creative so that we can ensure that money collected from taxpayers in Narok goes to Narok and that money collected from taxpayers in Kajiado goes to Kajiado. It is important for us to fight for the rights of our people, and the only way we can do this is if we understand their problems. Nonetheless, when we do not understand their problems, we are elected as senators to be in this House, and we are not there. Look ... view
• 20 Mar 2025 in Senate: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view
• 20 Mar 2025 in Senate: I can. view