Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, previously, when Kenya started on the road map to devolution, one of the early points of attack in ensuring that devolution never succeeded was the area of public finance. What happened was that the then regions were simply starved of resources and by so doing, the central Government then was able to make sure that the county governments became subservient and they started trooping back to the centre with begging bowls to be able to survive. We do not want that to recur. We do not want our county governments to become begging counties. We ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the same time in this Bill, the issue of internal revenue for the counties is also brought out. This is revenue different from the national revenue that will be shared. There are issues that will relate to what a county government can do, what it can raise and how it should be able to raise it. Again, this is factored in this Bill and I want to recommend to hon. Members that it requires support, but no Bill is perfect. That is why we are debating it today to be able to seal any ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with these remarks, I strongly support this Bill and I ask hon. Members to support it as well. Thank you. view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I will convey that he makes the delivery of that Statement tomorrow afternoon. view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am sure that we will all appreciate that the circumstances under the Ministry of Environment and Mineral Resources are a bit unique. So, I would really request that I will--- view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, following your direction, I was going to say that I will convey this information, so that the Assistant Minister in the Ministry can come here and deliver that Statement on Tuesday next week. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I just want to state that, in view of the ruling that you have made, that this matter be referred to the relevant Committee, I believe that, that would be the right forum so that these issues can be thrashed out and a clear decision be made by Parliament on the way forward. That is because the County Governments Bill is extremely important and I want to state here that we had very serious discussions with hon. Members. I would like to correct--- view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, so, I would just want to state that on the part of the Government and whether there was sufficient attendance from the Bench or not, this is a statement that I have noted and we will bring it up very clearly at the Cabinet level so that it can be discussed. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. view
• 29 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: I second, Mr. Speaker, Sir. view