Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, these findings and observations in Nandi County tend to cut across most of the counties. This is why the CPAIC opted to bring to this House a Fiduciary Risks Report. In our view, some of the risks identified in counties cut across each and every county. We felt that it would be important for the Senate to frame the findings and make recommendations which would then be applied uniformly across all counties, whenever these issues arise from the counties. The issue of imprest management and flouting of procurement regulations is a common finding in each and ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Allow me to proceed and mention that the public listens to the proceedings of the Senate. Sometimes we are not only talking to each other, but also to Kenyans. It would be important for us to bear that in mind. When we have a report having 10 counties, for example, if we will talk about Nandi County in this House, I am sure that the people of Nandi will be very keen to hear what Senate has to say about some of the things that have happened in that county in the past. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the reports are on the iPads, but this particular one is quite bulky; it is about 210 pages. I invite hon. Members to skim through it and see the issues we have captured in there. 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
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second county we have covered is Elgeyo- Marakwet. Some of the issues that are sticking out include the fact that the county Government did a tender for construction of an office block valued for Kshs19.9 million. In their wisdom, they split it into five. We can only deduce that splitting it into five was meant to beat procurement regulations, which makes that kind of practice illegal. Not to be outdone, they went ahead and varied the contract by 42.6 per cent. The Public Procurement and Disposal Act allows variation up to 25 per cent. However, ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: where there was a budget but no evidence provided that public participation, indeed, took place. We have also seen cases where the county government did not provide documents to the office of the Auditor-General, only for them to present them before the Senate. There was also a case where more than Kshs1 million was spent on single-sourced services, particularly, legal and hotel services. Legal fees is becoming a problem in most of our counties. We have situations where governors would refuse to come to the Senate, only for them to spend public funds to get lawyers to defend them in ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, moving forward to Laikipia County, we had an interesting case where the county was not deducting withholding taxes, which is a clear violation of the law. This has happened in many other counties, where counties deduct taxes and statutory dues – like the National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF), the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) and income tax – but that money does not go to the recipients. This business of tax evasion and the crackdown we are seeing the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) carrying out very aggressively on private citizens, I want to invite them to ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: In county governments, if you look from 2013 all the way to 2018, there will be cases where tens of millions of shillings have been deducted from poor employees and those monies have not been sent to the respective destinations. Just this past weekend when I was in Homa Bay County, I was told that counties are not remitting things like the NHIF to the respective insurance firms. This has caused many employees serious pain when they go to seek medical services, only for them to be told that their counties have not paid. Indeed, some employees have even been ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: In Laikipia County, the county government decided to appoint an auctioneer. Every Thursday in Rumuruti, the auctioneer would go and sell goats, sheep and cows on behalf of the county government. This auctioneer was paid Kshs2.195 million without a contract or justification. In mitigation, the county said that this was an arrangement with the defunct local authority, which they felt they needed to continue with. This is some kind of crazy application of public funds that should not be allowed in an era of modern financial management. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we also saw several irregularities in road projects. We have duly recommended that the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) and the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) should carry out investigations with a view to holding to account those who are responsible for some of these interesting expenditures. For example, paying auctioneers millions of Shillings to go and sell goats, 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