Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee will reply on my behalf. view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I rise to support the Bill that has been sponsored by the Senate Majority Leader. In the last Parliament, I had the privilege of serving as the Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Devolution and Intergovernmental Relations. These matters came before my chair, and, indeed, we brought in a legislative proposal before this House. However, it was too close to the elections, about a month or two to the elections. At that point in time, the Intergovernmental Relations Technical Committee (IGRTC), which we want to rename as the Intergovernmental Relations Agency, wanted to be a commission. We ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Devolution is not just about counties, because sometimes we think that when you talk devolution, it is just about counties. Devolution is a balance of power between the subsidiary units and the national Government unit. When you are talking about devolution, you cannot talk about counties at the expense of the national Government. That is the reason why there was a need to have this coordinating mechanism, which was given effect by the Intergovernmental Relations Act. In the last Parliament, I looked at the Intergovernmental Relations Act. It is an Act of Parliament that needs further amendments beyond what we ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: The Auditor General generates a lot of reports, but many of them can be summarised into probably 20 issues. We brought the first Fiduciary Risks Report to this House, and amongst the recommendations that were adopted by the House was, all contributions that were made to the COG were nugatory, illegal, and, therefore, the CEOs should be surcharged for that contribution. What did the Council of Governors do? They set up a fund to take the Senate to court. I am glad that along the way they found that it was a futile move and stopped that pursuit, even though ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, I was with Sen. Ledama Olekina in drafting the fiduciary risk report I have referred to. It has his footprints all over and I remember we spent a lot of time with him in retreats and report writing. It is a report that my Committee hopes to bring back to the House. We pointed out that illegality. It is for that reason that the House adopted our report and said that those contributions were irregular. They were irregularities and illegalities by drawing money from county revenue funds rather than the Consolidated Fund, which statute requires ... view
• 8 Aug 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the IGRTC has a lot of work to do as far as assets and liabilities are concerned. This job was started during Kinuthia Wamwangi’s time and it is still stuck. Counties have done verification of assets and liabilities but the IGRTC has not concluded this report. That is why I wonder, if we make them an agency, are they going to move faster than they were moving when they were a technical committee? Costing of functions and transfer of functions; moving too slow. Nowadays we are just bandying figures around what counties should get but we are ... view
• 7 Aug 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I rise to support the Standing Committee on Finance and Budget and the Motion they brought to the House that we reject the amendments of the National Assembly on the Equalisation Fund Bill. Article 204 of the Constitution establishes the Equalisation Fund and says- there “shall,” not may, be paid one-half per cent of all the revenue collected by the national Government each year calculated on the basis of the most recent audited accounts of revenue received as approved by the National Assembly. The base is not an estimate. It is actual revenue as audited ... view
• 7 Aug 2024 in Senate: many pockets of marginalisation in Homa Bay County. The islands of Ringiti, Remba, Takawiri, Mfangano and Rusinga are places that have been forgotten over the years. This money must go to Homa Bay in full as approved by the Senate. Madam Temporary Speaker, as a House, we must revisit the regulations under the Equalisation Fund. In the last Parliament, this House passed the regulations under very acrimonious circumstances. Sen. Faki was the then Chair of the Committee on Delegated Legislation when the National Treasury promised that they would bring back those regulations to this House for them to be corrected. ... view
• 7 Aug 2024 in Senate: Of course, Gloria. view
• 7 Aug 2024 in Senate: Okay. view