18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Bi. Spika wa Muda, Katiba inasema kwamba feri na bandari ni jukumu la Serikali za kaunti. Kwa hivyo, iwapo hizo fedha ambazo zinawekwa katika feri zitaweza kuregeshwa katika zile kaunti zinazo pahali ambapo wanaweza kuegesha vyombo, itasidia pakubwa kurahisisha usafiri. Jambo lingine ambalo tumeona ni kwamba, Kenya Maritime Authority (KMA) ambayo inafaa kuangalie maswala haya---
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Asante, Bi. Spika wa Muda. Kenya Maritime Authority haijafanya jambo lolote kuhusu maswala haya. Ni Mombasa pekee yake ndipo wameweza kukaa na mpaka sasa hawajaenda pahali pengine popote kufanya huduma kama hizo. Ukiangalia mambo---
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support the Motion on selection of Members to the three committees. We have the CPAC---
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, the three committees are mainly tasked with the oversight role in this House. I was privileged to serve in the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) in the first two years of our tenure in the Senate. That was from 2017 to 2020. I had the opportunity to also chair the Committee on Delegated Legislation of the Senate from 2020 until the end of our term in June this year. From my experience, most of the issues brought before the Senate by the auditors, especially affecting the second-term governors were minor such as failure to do ...
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Most of the auditors were under the patronage of the governors. Therefore, they could not to pick the major issues and concerns that led to the mismanagement of funds sent to the counties. Madam Temporary Speaker, there were instances where governors were summoned and they refused to appear in the committees. The governors for Murangá, Kitui, Kakamega and Machakos counties refused to appear before the Committee and none of them was ever arrested by the police. The Senator for Kakamega County has talked about special audits. Special audits were commissioned in the last Senate. However, most of the issues that ...
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
We went to Mombasa, made a lot of noise and the construction was stopped for a few days. After we left Mombasa, the construction started the following day. The Committee summoned the Governor and they were allowed to proceed with the construction. Nothing was given to the residents who had been evicted forcefully from their houses yet their properties had been destroyed. They were never compensated. What I am saying is that sometimes, our own committees fail us. We wanted to have a clear way forward in such situations where assets of the county governments are being misappropriated or mismanaged ...
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18 Oct 2022 in Senate:
Madam Temporary Speaker, the Committee on Delegated Legislation is an oversight Committee. In other jurisdictions, for instance, the United Kingdom, this Committee has a majority from the Members who are not in the government; Members in the minority. For instance, the committee in the UK has 15 Members, seven drawn from the ruling party and eight from the opposition parties. This is because most of the subsidiary legislation, the delegated legislation that would be coming from the House, will be coming from the Government Ministries and, therefore, the Government should not be allowed to oversight itself. More so, there are ...
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