Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise to support the report of the Committee on Finance and Budget on the BPS. I support it knowing that what we are dealing with, today, is policy and that the relevant Bills are yet to come. The Committee in its report has noted that the BPS is the most important starting point because it guides the horizontal and vertical allocation of resources. How I wish that we had convened at a time when all the Members were able to be present here. I want to inform the House that part of the reports ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: should be mandatory for a Senator and a county government and the leadership from a county to sit down and review the priorities in that BPS for it to inform the decision of the House. The Committee on Finance and Budget has made certain recommendations, which includes additional support for construction of county headquarters. A Senator out of their own volition can at times decide that their county needs headquarters and conditional grant without getting instructions from the governors. The governors are not keeping us informed and they are not advising us. They go and sit at Intergovernmental Budget and ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: were once thriving. Those businesses could not pay back their loans when we came up with draconian rules to tame the spread of the virus. We are not seeing that undertaking in this BPS. Mr Speaker, Sir, I did not expect the national Government to bring another business as usual budget. Unfortunately, this business as usual thinking has flown from the national to county governments. If you look at county governments’ budgets, they are budgets that were done on the assumption that we are in a post-COVID-19 era. In fact, county governments’ budgets are not incremental because they knew they ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: The Government does not become big by paying salaries or buying more tea and view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: It becomes big by engaging in capital expenditure. Capital expenditure generates wealth and creates employment. That is what Singapore did. To create employment for a restless labour market, they went into massive infrastructure, but not infrastructure that terminates in private property or infrastructure for prestige. It is infrastructure that unlocks the productivity of a nation. Those are the things that we should see. For those of us who have finally come to support the agenda of the Government of the day, we would wish to be associated with ideas that we can be proud of. We do not want to ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: I am particularly interested and I know that one day, this House of Parliament will do a conditional allocation to help mitigate the effects of HIV/AIDS scourge in the County Government of Homa Bay and all other counties with high prevalence rates. I will be glad one day to see my neighbouring County of Nyamira get a conditional allocation for construction of county government headquarters. view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker Sir, I would be interested if one day, we could get a conditional grant for counties like Makueni, Homa Bay, Busia and others that were producing cotton in the past to help them revive that sector. It is a much tidier approach to development than calling the President to your region and then over dinner you beg him to bring Government resources to those areas. However, how do those requests find their way into the Conditional Grants Bill? Right now, we do not have a framework and so every senator is left to guess and lobby the National ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: called pending bills. It is inexcusable for counties like Nairobi City to have pending bills of Kshs58 billion. Recently, we realised that those pending bills of billions of shillings in Nairobi are paid to law firms which are the most opaque institutions because they can receive and disburse money to people who have done the approval internally. That is a matter that my Committee is seized of. Mr. Speaker Sir, the third specific issue is on, Own Source Revenue (OSR). Sen. Kibiru tells us that the potential of counties to generate OSR is so huge and it is untapped. He ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: against. They go to market centres and use those rungus to enforce tax collection and yet that money is not reflecting in the accounts. We must demand full automation of OSR streams across all county governments. We must demand that accountability and issues of used utilisation of funds at source must be brought to a stop. If we can find a way of linking the recommendations of the CPAIC and the various Committees of this House to Article 225 of the Constitution and Section 94 of the Public Finance Management Act - that says that in the case of persistent ... view
• 21 Dec 2021 in Senate: Mr. Speaker Sir, that is also another gap that many people are willing to prey on. Most of the vehicles that were given to county governments by the Transition Authority (TA) have disappeared. The land that belonged to defunct local authorises has disappeared and changed hands. I have seen in this BPS that there is no allocation to the NMS. I am glad that the Government has come to the realisation that the NMS cannot be a permanent entity. I am alive to the revelation by Sen. Cheruiyot that there seem to be an agreement where NMS will be dealing ... view