Moses Lessonet

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that the Constituencies Development Fund (Amendment) Bill, Bill No.24 of 2013 be now read a Second Time. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: This Bill involves a very simple amendment. The net effect is basically to correct errors in the Bill which we know we passed earlier this year in a hurry. One of the amendments is to delete Section 4(2) which we found to be misplaced in this particular Bill. The principal Act as it is restricts the number of employees that each constituency can employ to five. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: We have already been restricted by the amount of monies which you can use to pay salaries and other emoluments. So, we only want to leave the restriction to the The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: amount of money available. That is why we are deleting the limitation of five employees that each constituency can employ, so that a constituency can employ as many as its funds can allow. That is the effect of this amendment. I request hon. Members that there should be no contest here. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I also want to request my colleagues who are here that let us focus on those basic items of the Bill at this stage. We are aware that Members have very many concerns over the CDF Act--- view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I was saying that let us focus on those basic items of the Bill. I am aware that Members have very many observations in terms of election of those committee members. Let us not bother about that now. We shall have the rest of the year to look at that or to prosecute that later this year. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: I only want to make a small correction. I know that hon. Members have received circulars in their constituencies telling them that the District Accountant is a signatory. This Act is very clear in terms of who is a signatory, and the Board will shortly make a correction on that circular so that the signing of hon. Members’ CDF accounts will be in accordance with the Act. view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, if anybody insists on that circular that the District Accountant will be a signatory, he will be inviting the wrath of this House! view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Currently, we have been allocated Kshs21.9 billion. Out of that money, about a Kshs1 billion or about 5 per cent is used by the CDF Board in Nairobi for administration. We remain with Kshs21.8 billion to be shared among all the constituencies. I also want to inform hon. Members that there will be a further Kshs1.1 billion which, when the Treasury was printing the Estimates, it erroneously reduced. They have confirmed to us that, that money will be available, maybe, this week. We will table allocations again towards the Kshs1.1 billion which we had not been notified as of last ... view
• 6 Aug 2013 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I do not want to say more than that. I want to invite the Vice-Chairlady of this Committee to second this Bill. view