Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I beg to support this Bill which is before the House today. I congratulate the Mover of the Bill, the Senator for Narok, Sen. Olekina, for bring it. It is something that we have been discussing offline for quite some time. I am glad that today, we have seen it fit to allocate time to go into it and make sure that it becomes law. Madam Temporary Speaker, as they say, there is usually the good, the bad and the ugly in everything that we do. When I look at this Bill, there is a ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, it could be that sometimes it might be cost-effective for counties to outsource those facilities. That is a discussion and latitude that counties should be given. Where they find it more expensive to put up the physical facilities and already the facilities that can be outsourced, they need to be given that latitude. The second objective of this Bill from what I can discern is to provide a clear role for the Senators to exercise their oversight role pursuant to Article 96 of the Constitution. This is bold because as a House in the Legislature, it is ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: “The county executive committee member and the the clerk of the respective county assembly shall keep and maintain the information relevant to the allocation of monies, collection of revenue and such other information on the finances of respective county and shall upon request, avail the information to a member of the public” That is correct and good. However, we need to have a clause that compels someone to provide that information to the Senator. We need to look at the Public Finance Management Act and the budget process. There a lot of documents and records that are sent to the ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: When something is going bad in my Homa Bay County, I should run and cry to a committee of the House. I should be the first one to respond by going to check what is going wrong. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Indeed, last week, I went to Homa Bay County and I visited the Homa Bay Teaching and Referral Hospital. I am not a Member of the Committee on Health and I did not go there as the Chairperson of the CPAIC but I went there as the Senator for Homa Bay County. In that process, I uncovered many things. For example, the equipment scheme is not fully utilised. That is something that I will escalate to the Committee on Health. We also have issues of internet connectivity and that is something I will escalate to the Committee on Information, Communication ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: will escalate to the Committee on Health. The first line of oversight is an individually Senator. Every committee of this House has got an oversight duty and mandate particularly on sectorial issues. If a road project is not going well in your county, you should first to go there as a Senator and escalate the issue to the Committee on Roads and Transportation. If the matter persistently recurs and the Auditor-General points it out, the CPAIC comes in to make punitive recommendations on those who are guilty or found culpable of flouting rules. Madam Temporary Speaker, I encourage this House ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: What stops the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI), the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission (EACC) and the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) from taking further some of the findings of the Auditor-General? The Auditor-General is an expert. That is why the qualifications of the Auditor-General are stated in the Constitution and their duties are constitutional. When the Auditor-General goes through an audit process that last six months and says that there was loss of funds in county “X”, what capacity does the Senate have to repudiate the findings of the Auditor-General? Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. talked about Parliamentary Audit Office. ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: had a session with the Governor in an open sitting where members of the public were involved and contributed. We talked about the stalled projects and the state of affairs in Samburu County. As we were flying out of Samburu, officers of the EACC also flew in. I want to confirm that there was no connection between the CPAIC and the EACC. From our discussions, it was obvious that something was not right. Samburu is no exception. This problem replicates across 45 counties. In the last the Auditor-General’s reports, only two counties got unqualified opinions. The rest were between disclaimers, ... view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: In the past one or two weeks, we have seen advertisements for public participation on the CFSPs. Unfortunately, whereas our colleagues in the county assemblies want developments to go to the lowest levels, which is the principle of subsidiarity that Sen. Sakaja talked about, public participation does not go to the lowest level in most counties. In my county, public participation is limited at the sub-county level; a level that is not recognised under the structures of devolution. view
• 3 Apr 2019 in Senate: Our county assemblies and executives at the grassroots must make sure that public participation is done at the most atomic level of devolution which is the village. If that was done faithfully and properly, we would not be talking about pockets of exclusion that continue to exist in our counties. view