Musalia Mudavadi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: I just want to state that by enacting this Bill, the intention is not to increase any bureaucracy in the process of registration, but to refine these processes and make them more efficient and user friendly for those who intend to go into business or form associations of this nature. view
• 20 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, with those few remarks, I beg to reply. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, before I reply, let me apologise that the hon. Member has not gotten a copy of the answer, but I hope that he will follow as I respond. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the Municipal Council of Kisumu is in the process of employing 90 employees in order to fill the approved vacant posts in the staff establishment. All the necessary procedures have been followed, which include budgetary provision, adoption of Council resolutions, Ministerial approval and advertisement for the 90 posts. The 98 employees who were laid off were illegally recruited. They were employed against non-existent posts, with no budgetary allocation, when the Council had been dissolved after the expiry of its term. (b) My Ministry has started staff rationalization in ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to state that, first of all, the number of people being employed is 90, and not 100. The positions that are being filled have now been properly laid out in terms of what kind of personality or skill we are looking for. In the case of non-skilled personnel, we have also worked with the Council to be very specific. The 98 employees that I said were employed earlier on were laid off because at that time, the Council Clerk, Mr. Mbinda, waited until the Council was dissolved in the year 2002, just before the elections, ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wish to confirm that we have communicated to all the clerks. With regard to the Kisii Municipal Council that the Member has talked about, I want to re-assure the House that we have sent a special team to look at it because we have also been informed that there have been very many irregularities that relate to the council. Indeed, we have even removed the Clerk from the Kisii Municipal Council and a few other officers. We are also seeking support from the KACC in investigating some specific issues surrounding the council. In terms of general ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, as I said, this was an irregular and mischievous approach by the then clerk. He waited for the council to be dissolved and then he went on a rampage to employ people on his own volition. It is really unfortunate, but I would like to state that a number of these employees, who had been irregularly recruited, have gone to court and that matter is the subject of a court process. We can only await the outcome. At this particular stage, the fact of the matter is that the council was continuing to incur irregular expenditure for ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, yes, I must acknowledge that there is a similar kind of scenario in Thika. One of the issues that we are insisting on is that really, we must have a staff rationalization programme. Just like we did for Kisumu, we will have to send a staff rationalization team to the Thika Municipal Council, so that we can evaluate the crisis that is there. I want to state once again that any clerk who knows that he is engaging in this exercise will be removed and disciplinary action will be taken against him. In the case of Thika ... view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir suspension is usually the first port of call in matters like this. As the evidence unravels even more, more stringent measures can be taken against any individual officer who will be seen to have deliberately flouted the rules. So, suspension is not necessarily the only measure that can be taken. view
• 19 Apr 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, if I start at the tail end, the positions that are vacant have been advertised. This is one point that I would like the House to note. Secondly, a committee has been set up to carefully look at the applicants in this context. The Ministry Human Resource Department will also be working very closely with the specific local authority to ensure that fairness and transparency are upheld during this recruitment exercise. So far, to the best of my knowledge, there is a record 5,000 applications for these jobs. People have shown interest in these positions. So, that ... view