Moses Otieno Kajwang'

All parliamentary appearances

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• 14 Nov 2018 in Senate: counties.’ A court of law recently ruled that counties cannot grant or dispose of land without involving the NLC. However, it was silent on whether counties must involve the NLC in acquiring land. We have seen in the County Public Accounts and Investment Committee almost every county is acquiring land here and there for establishment of stadia, markets and bus stages. In many of these cases, the land price is grossly inflated. However, the counties do it by following their own procurement laws. If the NLC is not involved at the point of acquisition, then it becomes a bit cumbersome ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to join my colleague Senators in supporting this Bill and congratulate the Senator for West Pokot, Sen. Poghisio, for bringing it before the House. I have had the privilege of speaking to this Bill in the Eleventh Parliament. I recall that this Bill was sponsored by Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr, and I laud Sen. Poghisio for picking it up and bringing it because it is a Bill that addresses a real need. In Parliamentary practice, plagiarism does not apply especially when you are talking about events happening at different tenures of Houses. So, Sen. ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: perfectly within his rights to pick the original thinking of Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Jnr. and to make it even better and bring it before this House. The objectives of the Bill are well stated in the Memorandum of Objects and Reasons. This Bill addresses the Fourth Schedule of the Constitution of Kenya, which Sen. Wetangula had alluded to earlier, where outdoor advertising and other nuisances and pollution are lumped up together and then allocated to the county governments. There has been a problem in assigning responsibility and defining what outdoor advertising is all about and what county governments ought to ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at the outdoor advertising that is taking place in national highways particularly in Nairobi City, you are talking of Uhuru Highway, Waiyaki Way, Thika Road and Mombasa Road. These are areas that generate hundreds of millions of shillings in terms of advertising revenue. It is a relief to those who believe in devolution and those who believe that counties should undertake outdoor advertising that the courts ruled in favour of the City County of Nairobi and ruled that the City County of Nairobi had the legitimate duty and authority to levy rates on ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Even though KeNHA lost in that case, this matter has still been lingering in the discussion on the roads Bill. In the last Parliament, I was fortunate to be a Member of the Committee on Roads. I recall that as we did the public participation sessions and tried to redefine the role of KeNHA, Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA) and the Rural Roads Authority (KeRRA), one sticking issue was outdoor advertising and parking rates. These entities kept arguing despite the court ruling, that when I build a road, I must control any furniture that is placed on that road. view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: To further that argument, the KURA argued that they have a duty and a right to collect advertising revenue out of all the urban roads and by-passes in Nairobi City County. It went further. The KeRRA argued that they have a duty to earn revenue from all the rural roads that they build and maintain. That meant that county governments were not going to earn anything out of outdoor advertising on major roads. The matter is settled and counties should now proceed and collect revenue out of outdoor advertising on those roads. Secondly, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my colleagues have ... view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: The City County of Nairobi generates Kshs700 million out of outdoor advertising. Those were the figures that were captured in the Financial Year 2016/2017. In the Financial Year 2017/2018, the numbers dipped a little bit. However, the potential for outdoor advertising for the City County of Nairobi is Kshs2 billion. You can imagine how much the City County of Nairobi would do with that kind of money. Many counties have taken a jack fruit approach to development. I never saw a jack fruit until I went to Uganda. It is a humungous fruit. It is big! view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: It is bigger than the heads of many Senators here. view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: A jack fruit is---. view
• 13 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, it is true that I looked at Sen. Sakaja and the Deputy Speaker as well. In no way did I mean to compare the heads of the two very distinguished Senators who happen to have gone to a very fine school whose name I will not mention. I never meant the content but the form. view