26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to thank you and this august House for giving me this opportunity to present both the Recurrent and Development Votes of my Ministry. As hon. Members are aware, my Ministry falls in the infrastructure development sector whose main role is to advice, co-ordinate service delivery and guide the operations of the 175 local authorities throughout the Republic. The main objective of our mandate is to empower and facilitate local authorities to enhance local governance and ensure efficient delivery ...
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to reply. However, from the very outset, let me thank hon. Members for their contributions. I want to assure them that we will extract the HANSARD of all their contributions so that we can go over them with a toothcomb with the Ministry officials and tackle some of the issues that I will not be able to answer within this short time. The first thing I will do is to address the issue of the Economic Stimulus Programme with regard to markets. This is a programme that has not taken off ...
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the second point that I would like to take up very quickly relates to aspects of capacity, specifically the issue of clerks, treasuries and maybe some senior staff. Complaints have come through from a number of Members about the instability that is generated when there is either too much transferring or sometimes when others have entrenched themselves in certain councils for too long. We have adopted a policy within the Ministry that, unless in extreme circumstances, we expect that once somebody has served in a given area for, at least, three years as either treasurer ...
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply.
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Mr. Temporary Deputy Chairman, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, a sum not exceeding Kshs 2,628,870,945 be issued from the Consolidated Fund to complete the sum necessary to meet expenditure during the year ending 30th June, 2011 in respect of:-
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
Vote 12 - Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of Local Government
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
VOTE R12 â RECURRENT EXPENDITURE
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
SUB-VOTE 120 â GENERAL ADMINISTRATION AND PLANNING
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
SUB-VOTE 122 â CONTRIBUTIONS IN LIEU OF RATES
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26 Aug 2010 in National Assembly:
VOTE D12 â DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE
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