Moses Lessonet

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• 30 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House today, Tuesday, 30th August 2016:- Report of the Select Committee on National Government Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) on its consideration of the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (Amendment) Bill 2016. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much for this opportunity, Hon. Deputy Speaker. It is true we did the First Reading of that Bill last week and also shortened its publication period. To enable us go to the Second Reading where we are today, we had to do the normal public participation where we ran an advert which lapsed yesterday, which was on Wednesday. This morning, we are working on our Report after receiving memoranda from various stakeholders to enable us present that Report in this House. That is probably before Order No.13. If possible, I request that we do the Third Reading ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.34 of 2016) be now read a second time. This Bill is about sharing of monies amongst the constituencies. Its passage will enable constituencies to share monies equally amongst themselves, including the allocation for the 2016/ 2017 Financial Year. It will enable us---. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I beg Members to bear with us. We need this Bill to be--- view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for that caution. I will abide by your caution. I want hon. Members to maintain order and listen as I move this very important Bill. This Bill is supposed to enable us share monies equally amongst the constituencies. This Bill takes cognisance of the fact that there are other funds focusing the areas which were marginalized, and which lagged behind in development. One of them is the Equalisation Fund. The formula for sharing revenues amongst county governments also takes into consideration the counties’ land mass, population and the poverty index. The NG-CDF at the ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: university or a referral hospital, those are areas of focus of the NG-CDF. That is the more reason we want to share these monies equally amongst the 290 constituencies. This Bill was motivated by a recent court ruling which only allowed the NG-CDF to access an amount not exceeding Kshs25 billion. If we were to calculate the allocations using the former formula, the least amount that a constituency would get is around Kshs55 million while the highest amount is Kshs134 million. The reason as to why we want to start sharing the Kshs25 billion equally is so that each constituency ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: us to court regarding the issue of constitutionality of the CDF. We invited them to give us their views regarding this amendment Bill. We gave them up to 24th August, which was yesterday, to come and submit a memorandum before the Committee that I chair. We wanted them to make any presentations on this Bill. I confirm to this House that to-date we have not received any response from them. That is just to confirm that that we are not doing this Bill in a hurry or under the table. We wrote to all the institutions that we thought had ... view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you very much, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. Thank you, hon. Members, for accepting to finalise this Bill. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: I want to give one minute to Hon. (Eng.) Gumbo and one minute to Hon. Lentoimaga. view
• 25 Aug 2016 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thank the hon. Members of this House for accepting to deal with this matter. I assure them that the intention of this Bill is not to disadvantage any constituency or county or Member of Parliament. This is an attempt to bridge the gap. view