Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: As I said when I was moving this Motion, for a long time, the Senate had not considered the reports of county assemblies because we had concentrated and focused on the county executives. The first Chairperson of the County Public Accounts Committee (CPAC), the distinguished Senator for Kakamega County, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, laid a firm ground and rules that we have followed to date in consideration of reports of the Office of the Auditor-General (OAG). view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: I agree with the rules and algorithm that they established because county executives take 80 per cent, if not 90 per cent, of county budgets. Sometimes we go for Pareto's principle, “go for the area where you are going to have the biggest impact.” However, along the way, we realized that a lot of the corruption and bad governance is condoned by weak county assemblies. If there is corruption in the county assembly, there is no way they will manage corruption at the county executive level. Therefore, the committee took an interest in the financial statements of county assemblies. Mr. ... view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: We were only left with the Serjeant-at-Arms officers. I thank those gallant Serjeant-at-Arm officers because when everyone else ran away, they were there to receive us and make sure that we at least had a bottle of water. Isiolo County Assembly has a leadership crisis. We cannot condemn all the MCAs. However, the leadership of this Assembly, particularly the Speakership, the last time they appeared before the CPAC, we had to ask the Speaker for Isiolo County Assembly to apologize for utterances that he made in public, failure to which, he would be ejected from the meeting. He chose not ... view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we must ensure that our assemblies are a reflection of the Senators here. It is only Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale here who could be proud that--- view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I withdraw and apologize. As I explained in the earlier case--- view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: The offensive words because if I mention them, I will give further effect to the offence. view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologize and withdraw for being offensive. As I had mentioned when we were considering the impeachment for the Governor for Meru County, and I am informed that Njuri Ncheke Council has refused to be drawn into those shenanigans, I think in Suba, translate to Luo and then I translate to English. So, sometimes, when I speak in English, my words can be taken out of context. I had committed to withdraw and apologize unreservedly on the comments I had made that seemed to indicate that there was no lucid person in Meru County. As we ... view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: management systems. However, the bigger weakness was their lack of ability or capacity to oversight the County Executive. Since I had spoken a lot on this matter on 30th April, let me summarize two or three issues. There is the issue of the Society of Clerks at the Table (SOCATT). The clerks who are sitting at the Table here belong to it and in the county assemblies, the clerks also belong to this society. However, it is a body that is registered and is not illegal, but it receives money from county assemblies. However, their accounts are not audited. Any ... view
• 31 Jul 2024 in Senate: through the Committee on Finance and Budget by revision of the ceilings to put up those projects. Project management by county assemblies is very poor because there is a lot of duplication. They want to bring in competencies that already exist in the county executive. Whenever we make those approvals for county assemblies to do capital projects, we need to guide them appropriately. We do not to see waste too much time in duplication and redundant things that could have been best done by county executives or through the shared services of the county executive. The reports before the Senate ... view