Ledama Olekina

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 871 to 880 of 4248.

• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. On behalf of myself and this House, I welcome the students from Sekenani Primary School. Sekenani is in the greater Maasai Mara region. view
• 8 Jun 2023 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
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: It is interesting that we are talking about the County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA). Narok County generates most of its own source revenue from the greater Maasai Mara. One of the challenges we face in that area, is that most schools are still lagging behind. In fact, I am happy that these students are here today. I was having a conversation with two of my colleagues, the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget and Sen. (Prof.) Kamar. We talked about visiting the school. I am happy that they have committed to accompany me to the school in ... view
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support this important Bill in its amended version. Although I support the Bill, sometimes I am baffled as to why we sit here and debate both the vertical and horizontal Bills in terms of how funds are divided and sent to counties or between the two arms of government. The Constitution is quite clear that the money that is supposed to be sent to counties should not be delayed or reduced at all. It has to be sent immediately. All of us are here supporting this Bill so that our counties can ... view
• 8 Jun 2023 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
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: We might get daggers being thrown at the Senate by the county governments saying we have reduced their executive ceilings, but it is imperative for the governors to know that CRA relied on the information that they submitted on verifiable staff establishment. Madam Temporary Speaker, as we debate on this Bill, the biggest question for us to ask ourselves is: What we are going to do to ensure that at least these counites get their money on time. I do not believe that any county should have anything to do with pending bills. It behooves this House to build the ... view
• 8 Jun 2023 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
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: the county assemblies to ensure that they, first of all, budget for the Kshs9.1 billion, remove the recurrent and development expenditures and shift their burden into the own source revenue game. We have a huge capacity and capability of raising more money. However, the problem is that we do not like to build systems which enhance accountability. If we build systems that are clearly defined by our spatial plans and the own source revenue streams, our counties will not be saying that they are shutting down because money from the National Treasury has not been released. They would be relying ... view
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: Finally, I call upon the county governments to work closely with the Commission of Revenue Allocation (CRA). The county assemblies now that I have noted that most assemblies have got their budget ceilings increased. They should work closely with the Council of Governors and the National Treasury, so that after the term of this Parliament, county assemblies will have their financial autonomy. The only time the county assemblies will oversight county governments is when they have financial autonomy. However, if they continue to rely on county governors, they will continue to sing the song of asking for the Ward Development ... view
• 8 Jun 2023 in Senate: Before I sit down, something has crossed my mind. Now that we have the Consolidated Fund, why can we not start thinking about amending the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act, having a big kitty and dividing all the money we get into three. We will then have a fund where we put all the money that will go to county governments, the Consolidated Fund and the Parliament Kitty. This is so that in Parliament, we do not have to keep on relying on the Exchequer releases. In fact, even if the National Treasury is the one to release the money, ... view