Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: One of the biggest challenges which will continue affecting county executives and the county assemblies is the issue of remittance. view
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I thank the Chair for clarifying that point. If that is the case, then the committee should have been a bit firm in ensuring that county assemblies have the autonomy. Nothing stops the committee from bringing an amendment to the Constitution, which does not require a referendum, so that it gives the county assemblies the autonomy. It is difficult for the county assemblies to oversight the county executives when they have to rely on the county executives for them to receive their money. We had instances of counties such as Machakos and Makueni where the executives ... view
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: The problem is that every year, retirement funds continue accumulating penalties and interests which is a big liability to the counties. As this House pushes for money to go to the county governments, it is time, we became realistic. The first thing we must ask ourselves is, if indeed it is true that any money which is not spent by the county view
• 2 Jun 2021 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
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: assemblies is spent by the county executive in the next financial year, why should we have pending bills? view
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: One of the amendments I propose to the committee to consider, including in the CARA for 2021/2022, is that any money that is budgeted for but is not spent by a county assembly, either because the money had not been released by the county executive or was not sent by the National Treasury, should be used to offset their existing pending bills and that their budget remains. I have met many Speakers of county assemblies lamenting that the executives do not release money to them. The only way for us to cure that is through making sure that it is ... view
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: These concerns should not be carried forward because we must have solutions now. We must ask ourselves tough questions if indeed they do not have money yet this House passed that money should be sent to the counties, where is it? This County Allocation of Revenue Bill (CARB) is now dividing Kshs370 billion which sounds good but in reality, if the Government is not able to raise that money, what do we do? Of course, there is nothing we can do right now. We are barred by our Senate resolutions which is entrenched in the Constitution. However, to be realistic, ... view
• 2 Jun 2021 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
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: To make it worse, once people retire, I could see that moratorium of three years which the Committee is recommending for another two-year term, what happens? Even if we go for the next two years and we are able to rationalise the staff and the staff of the county assembly retire and that county assembly did not remit their deductions, what do you expect them to go and survive with? They will not be able to get their gratuity and retirement benefits. So, they will just be going round in cycles. They will be traveling from Narok, Nakuru, Kirinyaga to ... view
• 2 Jun 2021 in Senate: It is important to train these people. When county assemblies appear before our committees some of them have no clue even on basic accounting skills. In the breakdown of funds sent to county assemblies, there is a Kshs11 million figure for internal audit. There is about Kshs635 million for training and Kshs8.3 billion divided among the 47 county assemblies, for operational expenses. If county assemblies do not receive their money, do you think they will prioritise training of their staff? Will they be able to allocate any money for audit committees? They will not. In fact, most of them will ... view