Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the nation must know that revenue is divided in Parliament. It is not divided at the Intergovernmental Budget and Economic Council (IBEC), Karen or private residences. I am very proud of this Senate, more so, the Chairperson of the Committee on Finance and Budget together with his Members, for standing up for county governments and reasserting the role of the Senate as the House that divides and allocates revenue. Mr. Speaker, Sir, when you set up the Mediation Committee, I hope you will put men and women Senators with spine. In the Eleventh Parliament, we had mediation ... view
• 14 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we have many Senators with spine, but not all. I hope that the Mediation Committee will stand firm for the Senate, and that they will not be intimidated by political parties and partisan politics. This is about county governments and not the Kenya Kwanza Government or Azimio la Umoja-One Kenya Coalition Party. I hope that the way we stood up when we came up with the formula for revenue allocation will be the same that the Senate will in order to be counted. Where the Council of Governors (CoG) failed at the IBEC and the National Assembly ... view
• 14 May 2024 in Senate: Shame on them! view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the distinguished Senator for Nandi, who was the powerful Chair for Justice and Legal Affairs Committee, has obviously not read the Constitution. Is he in order to mislead this House that disaster management is a function of county governments and that the national Government can only come in to assist when, in the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution, function No. 24, the functions assigned to the national Government is disaster management? Where a function is shared between the national and county governments, then the national Government takes the lead. It sets the policy and the structures for ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. First, I would like to thank Sen. Ledama Olekina for bringing this Motion to the House. This is a matter that this House has been seized of ever since it was established. During the first years of devolution, we did not have a pending bills problem. However, five years after devolution, we started seeing debts owed by county governments to various service providers piling up. I wish that this Motion could be amended. Therefore, I would wish to move that the Motion by Sen. Ledama Olekina on the Status of Pending Bills in Counties be ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: county government to clear inherited pending bills when approving exchequer releases.” Furthermore, the Motion be amended in paragraphs 2(iii) by inserting a new sub-paragraph immediately after sub-paragraph four as follows- “county governments in consultation with the Controller of Budget to provide a budget for completion of all existing projects and that initiation of new projects to cease until completion of the existing projects.” The justification for this amendment: On the first amendment, counties are required to present their medium-term debt strategies to the county assemblies along with the county fiscal strategy plans, and this is provided for under Section 123 ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply and beg to invoke Standing Order No.66 (3) to defer putting of the question. view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I rise to proudly support this Bill by Sen. Beatrice Ogola. For the record, this is a third Bill that has been sponsored by a Member of the Homa Bay delegation in this Thirteenth Parliament. view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: Sen. Beatrice Ogola has brought the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Bill. I brought the Technical and Vocational Education and Training Bill as well as the County Boundaries Bill. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, you will realise that Bills sponsored by our female colleagues touch on core socio-economic issues in this Republic. That is why this House would be better off with more women and not necessarily more men. If you look at the Bills that I have highlighted - the ones I have sponsored - they are hardware or conflict kind of Bills. This Bill by Sen. Beatrice Ogola touches ... view
• 7 May 2024 in Senate: next to a tarmac or an electricity pole. In the past, it used to be a telephone line. Away from the tarmac, many people are losing children under the age of five. We are talking of 41 out of 1,000 births, but you might find that the number is much higher in certain parts of Northern, Eastern and Southern Kenya. If this Bill is well implemented and has enforceable provisions, it should ensure that children do not die out of preventable reasons. Where I come from, we have the problem of malaria. Many of us suffered repeated bouts of malaria ... view