Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: Madam Deputy Speaker, I believe that if the Senate does financial oversight hand in hand with performance oversight, we will get better outcomes from our county governments. view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: The amendment in this case is that within three months, the County Executive shall submit the annual performance report to the county assembly and to the Senate for consideration. What I foresee is that when this becomes law, we might want to establish a standing Committee of this House whose sole purpose will be to look at the annual performance reports coming from the Counties. The same way we have the CPAIC looking at the annual financial reports coming out of the counties. That would be a good building block for the proactive oversight that we wish the Senate would ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: be chaired by the Senator and the Governor shall be the secretary to it. The governors, in their imperial nature, said they were being reduced to clerks. In Kiswahili we call them view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: Not knowing that the secretary to a Committee is a very powerful person because they can doctor the minutes if they wanted to engage in mischief. They said they could not be clerks yet they were flying flags. The second issue that they had with the CDB was on the issue of the mandate. They felt that the CDB were straying into their exclusive domains of approving the County Integrated Development Plans. It was their view that such a forum should not be focussed on development, but on consultation and information sharing. I know that some of these matters are ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: cocktail of membership is that the county is the theatre for all development. Be it the National Government Constituencies Development Fund (NG-CDF), the County Revenue Fund (CRF) and the Consolidated Fund. Today the CRF holds about 15 per cent of national revenues. The NG-CDF and the National Government Affirmative Action Fund collectively and probably hold three to four per cent whereas the Consolidated Fund remains with the 80 per cent. We had the President recently give a directive that Level Four Hospitals be established across the country, yet this is a purely county function. How then does the County Commissioner ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: If the President wants hospitals to be built, even if it is post-COVID-19 reaction or response plan, he must follow the law, which is Article 187, and ensure that there is an inter-governmental agreement or should come to the Senate and ensure that there is a conditional grant to the counties to undertake that. view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: In the counties, Members of the National Assembly, Women Representatives and governors issue bursaries. The national Government also issues bursaries. What happens in many cases is that you will find the same person benefiting from all these Funds, because we have got people who have become experts at gaining the system. They know how to make applications and go online. We need to make sure that we synergize if we are doing bursaries in the counties. That way, we will reach a much larger population. I see the National Government Affirmative Action Fund (NGAAF) being used to build markets in ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: million. That way, they will do things that make sense, rather than things that only enhance our political positions. Another one is roads. We know that the Kenya Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA) does roads in our counties. It is the KeRRA roads that the county governments sometimes claim to have done. This is the sole reason why governors went to court when the Senate said it wanted accountability on the Road Maintenance Levy Fund (RMLF) because they are doing a lot of monkey games there. Can we sit down and mark our roads, so that we know the roads that ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: We expect a situation where when you talk of a marginalization policy, equalization policy or a Fund, when we stand here, we speak on the authority of our county governments. This is because our mandate number one is to represent the counties. I think we have said that the counties are made of people. We have extended and said that 0.1 represents the people and 1 represents the counties but in truth, what the Constitution says is that we represent counties. If we represented the people in the counties, then there would be a constitutional provision for us to everyday ... view
• 16 Nov 2021 in Senate: By the time I come and take a position here on behalf of the people of Homa Bay, it must be consistent with the interpretation that my governor has. view