Moses Otieno Kajwang'

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• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: before us today is the County Wards (Equitable Development) Bill, which is sponsored by the Chair of the Committee on Finance and Budget, Sen. Mohamed Mohamud. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The earlier legislative proposal had certain deficiencies because it was prescriptive. We agreed as a Senate that what we need to do is to come up with a framework that would help counties come up with ways of ensuring that funds went straight to the wards without telling them exactly what to do and without dotting the i’s and crossing the t’s with the finality on what they need to do. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The earlier legislative proposal was trying to set up a Fund and we know what the PFM Act says about establishment of funds. For every Ward Development Fund, the Auditor-General would have had to do the audits. That means we would be receiving on the Table of this House about 47 reports of the Auditor-General on Ward Development Funds per county, in addition to the numerous reports that we receive from counties. I felt that was not tenable. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The earlier legislative proposal had come up with some structures for identification and implementation of projects; structures that we felt were going to be expensive and a duplication of already existing structures. Madam Temporary Speaker, my conviction about this Bill is that if county governments were to do what is required of them by the Constitution, the County Governments Act, and the PFM Act, this Bill would be unnecessary. This is because the Constitution puts an obligation on county governments to ensure that development goes to the lowest level, which in this case is not the ward but the village. ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: There are still a lot of pockets of disadvantage in our counties. We have not juts devolved corruption but also tribalism, clannism and political partisanship. There are counties that are multi-ethnic and you will find that the ethnic group from which the governor and the leading elites come from gets preferential treatment at the expense of others. There are also counties that are homogeneous when it comes to language and tribal orientation but even where there is homogeneity in the ethnic composition, they bring in clannism. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: In Homa Bay County where 80 per cent of the people are from one ethnic community, we are further divided on the basis of which part of the county one comes from such as Karachuonyo, Ndhiwa or Kanyada. Further to that, even if you come from Kanyada, you would still be defined on the basis of where your migration started from. People would want to know whether your migration started from Ugenya, Gem or another part. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: We need to find a way of dealing with some of these issues, not necessarily by legislation but by appealing to the good sense of morality, internalising Chapter Six and reflecting on what leadership is supposed to be. There are areas where people are neglected because of the political choices they made. We are still seeing it happening in counties, just like it is happening at the national level where some zones are categorised as opposition. It is because of that reality check that I would be convinced that Parliament needs to come up with legislation that would act like ... view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 21 Mar 2019 in Senate: pockets of disadvantage at the county but the wards are also not homogeneous. In some wards, there are different ethnic communities, different political persuasions and different clans. view