Eng Mohammed Maalim Mahamud

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, as alluded to by my colleague Sen. M. Kajwang’ of Homa Bay County, it is true that there are a lot of laws in place today that if followed and if there is some discipline, counties can decentralise further within the provision of the current laws. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: However, because that is not happening, there is no harm for us to emphasise in another Bill so that those actions are taken by way of a Bill making it clear. We are looking for clarity. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, all development in this country takes place in counties and all development in counties take place in wards. There is no place where there are no wards. This is Bill is trying to have minimum project budgeting in every ward in this country. We have put a figure of not less than 15 per cent of development budget in every county. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: It is true that figure is about Kshs15 to Kshs20 million depending on what counties get. It is true that the figure looks small. However, it at least makes some minimum provision in every ward but that does not preclude any other development to be undertaken. In fact, since development in the counties takes place in the wards, they will still be having development programmes out of the other 85 per cent of development expenditure. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: That is the provision under Clause 5(3)(b) and (4). It says:- view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: “(3) (b) is complementary to any other development efforts by the county government or any other agency and view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: (4) Nothing in this Act shall be construed to mean that an area may be excluded from any other development programmes.” view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it is a minimum amount. County governments, in their wisdom, can increase that figure from 15 per cent to a figure they choose. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: When we met with Members of the County Public Accounts and Investments Committee (CPAIC) and the rest, there was a feeling that this figure is high. Depending on the money allocated for development in certain counties, they thought that the figure is too high and it might distort the development expenditure of counties. view