Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you. I beg to second this Bill and indicate that a lot of extensive consultations have taken place because, initially, there were two Bills. There was one which was being generated by the Treasury, and then there was another one which was developed by the taskforce that was dealing with the aspect of devolution. The taskforce on devolution specifically looked at two Bills with regards to finance. One was what you call the Inter-Governmental Fiscal Relations Bill and what you call the County Finance Management Bill. On deliberation, it was then agreed that rather ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: companies which belong to county governments. For those entities again, there is very clear provision on how they ought to be managed, what are their accounting processes, whom do they report to and who, in overall, approves their budgets at the county levels. So, all those things have been brought very clearly in this Bill and I would like to say that it is important that hon. Members scrutinize it. It is a very huge document but there are issues that we must bear in mind that if not properly taken care of, there could be a risk of an ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: We were very clear and it is important that hon. Members remember that. We do not want a situation where if there is a window for either international borrowing, the national government crowds out and takes everything, and then the county governments cannot access any credit lines for a development project that they want to undertake in their given area. It is absolutely important that I draw this to the attention of hon. Members when they are looking at the provisions that will relate to borrowing and so forth. Please, bear that in mind. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: It is also important for hon. Members to remember that there are new players; the controller of budget and the audit office. All these offices also come into play in this particular Finance Bill. We are also saying that there must be county fiscal strategy papers so that, at any one time, resources are not just being dispensed with, but there is a clear strategy and policy that has been developed by the county government to ensure that the resources are being released and utilized as required. This is so important because it will mean that the capacity of the ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: recruited and they must also know that there are very stringent penalties if they do not follow the provisions that are laid out in this Bill. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we have also made sure that in this Bill, the issue on how resources and the criteria that can be used to even allocate funds is also being made clear within the county governments. This should also be read in conjunction with the County Government Bill which has been passed, although there are few areas that we will be dealing with later as they are important. There will be county treasuries and the head of the county treasury shall be appointed by the governor in the respective county government. The county secretary is responsible for ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I think the rest are a lot of details which will require a lot of scrutiny from hon. Members but I want to urge hon. Members, particularly those who are either in the Departmental Committee in charge of finance or those who are in the Budget Committee, to literally look at this particular Bill with a toothcomb because their recommendations and input are going to be extremely serious and valuable in ensuring that the final outcome from this House will be a Bill that we can all respect and support. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: At the same time, I want to remind Kenyans that this is a Bill that will either make or break devolution. So, please, dear hon. Members, look at it very carefully because any clause that will be seen to be reversing the process of devolution, particularly in the areas about finance, is dangerous. view
• 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