Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: The other issue that cuts across is on the wage bill. Most counties are above 35 per cent of the wage bill. One good example that you find in that report is in Elgeyo- Marakwet County; the county of champions where the Senate Majority Leader comes from. The Auditor General told us that in the year under review, 51.58 per cent of total revenue was spent on compensation of employees. You ask yourself what else remains for Elgeyo-Marakwet to carry out development and to do the other services that people expect from county governments. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Imagine a county like Elgeyo-Marakwet, in that financial year, spent Kshs1.5 billion on salaries, and their total allocation was Kshs3 billion. If Kshs1.5 billion has gone to salaries, then out of the remaining Kshs1.5 billion, probably 10 per cent of it goes The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: to the Assembly and another percentage goes into operations. How much money then does Elgeyo-Marakwet remain with to do development? Compare that with Kakamega County, where after paying their salaries and buy mandazi and tea, they remain with Kshs6 billion for development. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: We need to relook at how some of these counties are using the money that is sent to them. But, definitely, when a county is using more than 51 per cent of its revenue on salaries, then something is extremely wrong. That county should not get anything under the fiscal responsibility measure. The dilemma is: If you do not give them anything under the fiscal responsibility measure, again, their equitable share reduces to a level they can hardly even pay salaries and run the county. You will see that in the Report for Elgeyo-Marakwet County. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Another issue that cuts across is the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS). It is a problem in every county. Again, when we went to Nyamira County, the Auditor General told us verbally that in Nyamira, they are using IFMIS 100 per cent. In Makueni, we were told that they are using IFMIS 100 per cent. The national Treasury came before us and told us that there are certain modules that are not working and others that are still being implemented. Therefore, when the governors come and the Auditor General confirms that the county is using IFMIS 100 per cent, ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Today, in the morning, we had a conversation with officers from the Kenya National Audit Office (KNAO) and agreed that in those cases, particularly Nyamira and Makueni counties, we need to get a reconfirmation. This is because we know the challenges that IFMIS has. This House has pronounced itself in the past, challenging the national Treasury to put in place adequate measures to ensure that IFMIS delivers for counties. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: There are many systems in counties; IFMIS for financial management, Integrated Payroll and Personnel Database (IPPD) for personnel management, G-pay, which they use for payments and also revenue collection systems. These systems do not talk to each other, and every year, the Auditor General reports variances in numbers that are in IFMIS, manual financial statements, IPPD and Excel based payrolls. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the risk that counties run, particularly when it comes to personnel management, is that many of them are paying casuals from Excel worksheets. So, at the national level, there is no visibility on the exact number of people who work for county governments. We are like Somalia. The people of Somalia do not know how many soldiers they have in that country because people are being paid out of pocket. That is the situation we have with county governments. If we were to ask how many people work for county governments in Kenya, I bet we ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: per cent are people who work for inspectorate, bloggers and people who used to campaign for the governors. They have been put on a manual Excel payroll. This is a big risk and we have already seen that salaries are already taking close to 40 per cent of the money we send to counties. We need to deal with this and the solution lies in the Capacity Assessment and Rationalization for the Public Sector (CARPS) exercise, again, where we spent millions of public funds. I remember it was championed by the current Governor for Kirinyaga when she was in her ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, allow me to talk about an issue that does not necessarily point at county governments, but points back at the national Treasury. Yesterday, I had the fortune or misfortune - depending on how you look at it - to be on the same flight with the Chairman of the Council of Governors (CoG) and we sat next to each other. We reflected on a few issues regarding the relationship--- view