5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today, Wednesday, 5th December 2018: The Report of the Departmental Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the Ratification of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Jordan, Kenya and Jamaica, Kenya and Bahamas and the Potocol Amending Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Turkey. Thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:
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5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly:
THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing on the Ratification of Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Jordan, Kenya and Jamaica, Kenya and Bahamas, and the Protocol amending Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Turkey, laid on the Table of the House on Wednesday 5th December, 2018 and pursuant to provisions of Section 8 of Treaty Making and Ratification Act, 2012 approves the ratification of the Bilateral Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Jordan, Kenya and Jamaica, Kenya and Bahamas and the Protocol amending Air Service Agreement between Kenya and Turkey.
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29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to make this Statement which is very important for Hon. Members in the performance of their duties and activities in their constituencies. Hon. Speaker, Article 95 of the Constitution empowers the National Assembly to provide oversight and accountability over the use of public resources appropriated for provision of various goods and services. Specifically, Article 95(4) enumerates the roles of the National Assembly in public finance, which are as follows: a) Determine the allocation of national revenue between the levels of government. b) Appropriate funds for expenditure by various government entities. c) ...
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29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Looking at these functions, it is indeed clear that National Assembly wields significant power in influencing the final outcome of the national Budget and provision of oversight to ensure proper utilisation of approved revenue and expenditure. In this regard, among the revenues whose expenditure must be overseen by the National Assembly is disbursement from the Roads Maintenance Levy Fund that is managed by Kenya Roads Board (KRB) and shared through legislated formula among the national roads agencies: the Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA), the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS).
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29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
My Committee, therefore, recently sought information from KRB on the gross allocation from fuel levy to counties, including allocation per county. They said that they used Commission for Revenue Allocation (CRA) formula to allocate that money with the biggest chunk of it, Kshs415 million, going to Nairobi. The least is Lamu at Kshs93 million. Further, the Committee also sought information – this is very important for Hon. Members – from KeRRA on the allocation from the fuel levy to each constituency and status of disbursement to date in the Financial Year 2018/2019. The document which I am laying on the ...
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29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Speaker, this is very important because Hon. Members will be seeing some of these activities happening and they will ask questions. We are giving them the information today. This is going to 59 urban centres under affordable housing programme regarding the cost of the houses. How much will the house cost? Then there is the location where those houses are going to be. Then there is financing criteria for allocation among others.
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29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
The Committee received the information requested from the three agencies, that is, the KRB, KeRRA and the State Department for Housing and Urban Development. I, therefore, wish to table the documents for the information of the House. Members can use this data to follow-up on those projects in their respective constituencies and counties. I thank you, Hon. Speaker.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I beg to move: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor.
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15 Nov 2018 in National Assembly:
THAT, the Schedule to the Bill be amended in the proposed amendment to Section 12 (2) of the Kenya Roads Board Act, No. 7 of 1999 by deleting the word “Master’s” appearing in paragraph (a).
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