Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: I want to congratulate the Mover of this amendment Sen. (Dr.) Zani whom we call the “general” when we go to our party politics, for bringing this amendment which is worded so candidly. The main amendment says that every county shall, in consultation with the National Treasury, design, develop and implement, a county revenue collection system. view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: Having chaired the CPAIC, I believe that every county needs to have an automated revenue collection system. It is one way of ensuring that we optimize own source revenue and also get rid of something that we learnt when we were discussing issues to do with Migori County, called under-carboning. Under-carboning is where revenue collection is manual. The revenue collector charges the market woman Kshs50, but deletes the carbon copy and then enters Kshs20 on the carbon copy. In between collection and submission to the county, the county has already lost Kshs30. An automated revenue collection system will bring about ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: Planning, IPPD is supported by the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and LAIFOMS is not supported by anyone. When we had the Governor for Kirinyaga County, who in her past life was involved in setting up these automated systems at the national and county level, she confirmed that support for LAIFOMS had been discontinued. It was interesting to learn that her Kirinyaga County was still using LAIFOMS for recognition of own source revenue. It is risky for the counties to use systems whose source codes are unverified and whose support cannot be guaranteed. If LAIFOMS collapses one day, a ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: also learnt that they hardly collect Kshs100 million. Sen. (Prof.) Ongeri was perturbed by that. The cost of implementing the system was equivalent to what they collect in a year and there were commissions of 7.5 per cent. When the funds are collected by the service providers, they are put in a fund which is supposed to be set aside and the service provider is not supposed to access it. In line with the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act requirement, whatever is collected must first be swept to the County Revenue Fund before any commissions are deducted. However, we have ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: Once again, of importance also is business continuity. Some of these systems are hosted on desktops sitting in offices of service providers. Sometimes counties do not even know where their data is sitting. Once again, going back to the example of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) during the last elections, there was a furore when it turned out that citizens’ data was sitting somewhere in Europe, and people were asleep there when we needed it. Many counties do not know where their The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: data sits because they have not come up with ICT policies, strategies and a governance framework that can help them to manage some of these assets. view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: Sen. (Dr.) Zani, you might want to reflect on the role of the ICT Authority on these issues. I would support a situation where counties can procure a solution which suits their purpose. I would not recommend a situation where we force one solution across all counties. This is because we will be repeating the mistakes of IFMIS and those of the Managed Equipment Scheme (MES). We might want standardisation, uniformity and consistency. We might even want to get the best and deploy it across, but that was the rationale and argument behind the MES. We are, therefore, now paying ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: Finally, as I mentioned earlier, we must have a proper transition out of LAIFOMS. The IFMIS must be made to capture details of own-source revenue, and that module exists. I do not understand why, every year, we allocate IFMIS billions of shillings in the budget, yet we are not able to activate the module that will do own-source revenue recognition. Just the same as budgeting, the cases of Kiambu and the other counties that have the national Government projects in their budget execution reports, those reports came from IFMIS. We must ask ourselves whether, on IFMIS, we are pouring money ... view
• 16 Jul 2019 in Senate: As a result, we had said that we would go to the Supreme Court of Kenya to challenge it. However, there is nothing to challenge in the Supreme Court, and the CPAIC will continue to ask questions relating to own-source revenue whenever governors appear before it. I encourage county assemblies to also robustly oversight the money coming from Nairobi. Obviously, what we must do is to come up with a framework where we do not duplicate what the county assemblies are doing. Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, counties should not be afraid of software. We should not be embarrassed when we ... view
• 11 Jul 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I thank and congratulate Sen. Halake for bringing that Statement on behalf of the Committee on ICT. Allow me to also thank Sen. Sakaja, who earlier on welcomed a delegation from Homa Bay County in my absence. I am sure that he declared the many things we share; but I know that there are some which he did not declare. Those would be un-parliamentary, if he were to bring them on the Floor of the House. Madam Temporary Speaker, allow me to mention three issues that I know the Committee on ICT is considering. One, is that ... view