1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
The Committee has given us progress reports several times. Now, I think they are dealing with the Ninth Report. In fact, their report will be completed if we know what happened to the funding that was given to the counties by various institutions; the national Government and the donors.
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1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
It has become clear that this pandemic has thrown this country into some crisis and the worst place affected is the education sector. Our children have ben at home from March. In fact, the likelihood of going back to school again is bleak. The Ministry of Education has been giving a lot of confusing reports. I think they either do not know what they are doing or do not want to do anything. The Report dealt with many thematic areas; health, financial, social, justice and policies order issues, access to food, water and sanitation and other crosscutting issues. It will ...
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1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
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1 Oct 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we need the Committee, in those extra 30 days, to come with the recommendations that are actionable. Of course, that will go to the standing Committees. Our report must be powerful so that this Government is told what needs to be done at its various levels. The worry is that we are told, with the pandemic, there appeared some “COVID millionaires”. It is shame on the system that benefits from people's misfortunes. When the report comes, let us not whitewash, so that we shame those people who are behind it. Apart from the COVID-19 funds given ...
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30 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Madam Deputy Speaker, I thank Sen. Farhiya for requesting this Statement. The Senate is charged with the responsibility of protecting counties and their governments. The people we represent have an avenue through requests for Statements to make the Senate take action. County governments are unable to close their pending bills because they choose to pay as they want and refuse to pay others. I urge the Committee on Finance and Budget to consider this matter keenly so that county governments take their obligations seriously and pay their suppliers. Most of the suppliers to the county governments are small business men ...
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24 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Thank you, Mr. Speaker Sir. Let me also add my voice to this Report of the ad hoc Committee on the MES. This has been a very interesting project. In fact, for the last three years, during the budgeting process both at Budget Policy Statement (BPS) and the Division of Revenue Act (DORA), the Committee of Finance, of which I was a Member then, were really concerned with this project. The Committee has highlighted a lot of issues. This project was initially conceived as a Public Private Partnership (PPP) and later on converted by the Government to a---
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24 Sep 2020 in Senate:
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24 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, thank you very much. I will be quick. This project could have been a very important project for this country, but the way it was conceived and implemented leaves a lot to be desired.
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24 Sep 2020 in Senate:
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24 Sep 2020 in Senate:
Mr. Speaker, Sir, this project was ideally supposed to be funded so that it could help the counties overcome their health challenges.
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