Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I am confused with the sentiments of the Senator who is seconding the Motion because he is saying we support the Bill, but we delete Clause 3. Yet Clause 3 is the heart of this amendment. It is the door that is being opened to allow this amendment and downward revision because the argument is that there will be a revenue shortfall. So, the minute we delete Clause 3, we do not have an amendment Bill. I am just wondering whether the seconder is supporting or opposing. I would be happy for him to say that he ... view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: Senator for Migori, you have the option of opposing the Bill and then it dies. Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to oppose this amendment having had the privilege of getting an explanation from Sen. Oketch Gicheru, who is a Member of the Finance and Budget Committee. How I wish this House would have benefited from the report of the Finance and Budget Committee. We had a little bit of a heated exchange with the Senate Majority Leader not too long ago. I insisted and he informed me that the Finance and Budget Committee intends to retain the Kshs401 billion, which this House appropriated to county governments. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report ... view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: If that is the intention, then this amendment is what you would call in law, otiose . It is unnecessary. We do not need to be processing it. I wish that report was here. I told the Senate Majority Leader that I cannot trust intentions. I can only trust action and a report that has been tabled before the House. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if, indeed, it is true that the seconder of this Motion has convinced me and has demonstrated that it is the position of the Finance and Budget Committee that the Kshs401 billion that was allocated to ... view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, to me, even changing the basis, the shareable revenue is a matter we cannot accept because the revenues have already been audited and adopted. There was an actual growth in financial year 2022/2023. Of which, we must share. Additionally, the high courts have ruled on a matter of national interest. Whenever we set out to divide revenue, we first deduct some billions and call it national interest. When I joined this Senate, I must have listened to the Senator for Kakamega back then. We used to have debates on national interests. I would follow the debates ... view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: off. An amendment should lead to incremental improvements in the monies that go to counties and in the services that counties offer. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I oppose because the Bill as it is before us, proposes a reduction to Kshs380 billion. This Senate, through the Finance and Budget Committee, which we gave the responsibility to carry out public participation, advised us that the right allocation to county governments ought to be Kshs415.9 billion. All of us across the aisle, it was a unilateral agreement that counties need Kshs415.9 billion and reasons were given. The reasons included the non-discretionary expenditure ... view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: Yes, since he is on the Finance and Budget Committee. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: I thank Sen. Eddy Oketch. If that report was there, it would have saved me the heated exchange with the Senate Majority Leader. I said that I cannot trust intention. I can only trust what has been tabled and put before the House. We hope that those intentions will be purer than scheduling this debate at 5 p.m. on a Thursday when the House is in low season view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: This is a debate that cannot and should not end today. It is a debate that every Member of this House needs to lend their voices to. Any adjustment in the amounts of money allocated to county governments will result in a downward adjustment in the amounts of money allocated to those counties. view
• 19 Sep 2024 in Senate: We may not like the people who have been elected to run our counties, their style, their ethics and integrity, but we must love the people who are in those counties. When we allocate this money, it is not for the governors, their cheerleaders and the County Executive Committee Members (CECMs) and all those other people who make life a living hell in county governments. It is supposed to be for the people. The Senate must stand up to say that when money was being shared between the national government and its wasteful habits, we stood up to send more ... view