Moses Lessonet

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, as I say that, I want to beseech my other colleagues that when they go on recess, they utilise their CDF monies. After leaving the CDF Board this afternoon, the total money held by constituencies which has not reached projects, schools and which has not been disbursed in terms of bursaries, meaning banks are earning interest on it, is Kshs1.5 billion. view
• 30 Oct 2014 in National Assembly: I would like to request hon. Members to use their time during this recess and ensure that the money is used on the intended projects. Of course, hon. Members, it may not be in your best interest that I table the list, but we would like to request hon. Members to work very hard--- view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I stand to second this Motion, and say that these draft regulations are before us basically to attempt to streamline the management of the CDF. Once these regulations are gazetted they will enable the CDF Committees (CDFCs) and these hon. Members of Parliament to efficiently and effectively manage this Fund in a manner that will be able to give the desired service to the people in the constituencies we represent. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, among what we are intending to introduce in these regulations is the removal of the CDFC members. The CDF Act, as it is at the moment, is not very clear as to how to remove a CDFC member. It is not very clear as to how to dissolve a CDFC. The Act is very clear that elections are done at the ward levels and thereafter nominees to the CDFC are appointed by the Members of Parliament in consultation with the Fund Manager, it is not clear as to how to remove those members. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as the Chairman of the select committee on CDF, I am aware of challenges which we are facing in close to 100 constituencies, where there is a stalemate in the leadership of those CDFCs occasioned by the fact that chairmen and the CDFC members are saying that they are gazetted and, therefore, they want to be independent even from these hon. Members. It is for that reason that we are introducing a regulation. We are proposing this regulation to the Cabinet Secretary (CS) to enable removal of a CDFC member or dissolution of a CDFC. So, that is ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, the other issue where we have challenges in managing the CDFCs and the CDF at the constituencies is the role of the Fund Accounts Manager. Most of the time the Fund Accounts Managers are a law unto themselves. Most of the time the Fund Accounts Managers do not report to anybody at the constituencies. Considering that the CDF board is only able to send one employee in the name of a Fund Accounts Manager to a constituency, issues of supervision, reporting and absence from duty are extremely rampant. It is because of that. that through these regulations we ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: regulations by adopting this Report the Fund Accounts Manager shall henceforth report to the CDFC. When that Fund Accounts Manager wants to leave his station, he must be able to get permission from the chairman of the CDFC. When that Fund Accounts Manager wants to go on leave he will seek permission from the chairman. Even at the end of the year we want him/her to be appraised as to how he/she performed in the past year. That function and activity shall be performed by the CDFC. They are the ones who are with him on a daily basis. They ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as the Chairman of this National Assembly select committee on CDF, we receive complaints every week of Fund Accounts Managers who did not report for duty for a whole week, and who are out of station purportedly in Nairobi in seminars or in meetings. This regulation will sort out that issue of absenteeism; it will, of course, address the fact that the Board is not able to supervise the Fund Accounts Managers. view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, in this financial year, 2014/205, the Jubilee Government allocated Kshs33 billion to the CDF, of course, very much with the support of this House and the hon. Members that we have such an amount of money allocated to CDF. A percentage of this money, specifically 5 per cent, is used by the CDF board to manage the Fund. When you work out five per cent of Kshs33 billion, you get a substantial amount of money. We are saying that we want the Board to be able to bring their budget for approval by this House through the National ... view
• 15 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I have mentioned that Kshs33 billion was allocated to the CDF. It was our intention that we allocate the lowest amount per constituency of Kshs100 million. We were not able to achieve that. We succeeded to bring the lowest constituency, Lamu East, from Kshs60 million to Kshs85 million. The CDF Act at the moment requires 2.5 per cent as money allocated to CDF. We are, therefore, introducing through regulations a further conditionality that the smallest constituency should not receive less than Kshs100 million. view