Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to lay the following Paper on the Table of the House, today, Wednesday, 15th June, 2016:- The Report of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on its consideration of the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.3 of 2016). view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I beg to move that the County Allocation of Revenue Bill (Senate Bill No.3 of 2016) be now read a Second Time. This is a fairly straightforward matter. Generally, we concur with the Report from the Senate. If we do not agree with the Report from the Senate, we would require a very high ceiling to register our objection. I beg to move and request the Vice-Chair to second. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I thank the Member for those very valid points. Let me assure the Member that we are also constrained by the same facts. Yesterday, we met twice with the CS, National Treasury. We went to great pains to express our concern about the variations. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Let me also, having recognised the validity of the point that he is raising, say this:- That while the CS, National Treasury is preparing the Estimates, he takes into account what is in the BPS. He is not tied to the BPS. In terms of the general direction of the programmes of the Government, what is in the BPS and what is in the Estimates has not really changed very much. The figures may change up and down but the general drift of the goals and priorities and the policy direction of Government are clear in both. view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: May also I say that any budgets, even a personal one, are aspirational. If we approach the issue of budgeting as matters set in concrete, then we fail to appreciate what it means to have a budget. It is something that is aspirational. It tells you the direction you want to go. It gives you a kind of a general perspective. So, if the figures have changed from those in the BPS to the Estimates, it is because you are dealing with a very dynamic situation. You are dealing with the kind of challenges that all the platforms that are ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I stand to be corrected if there is any of the newly created initiatives and platforms in the new Constitution that are not finding their way into being faithful to the Constitution. We are still in the very early stages of the implementation of the Constitution. This is, probably, the third or fourth Budget of the new Government that is implementing this Constitution. We had a long session today and asked ourselves many question. If I can give you an example, we have county assemblies whose role is to oversee county governments. There is a general consensus in the country ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: The bottom line is whether we have been faithful to the BPS. If you see the BPS as something set in concrete, you can say we have not been, but the BPS or the Estimates are aspirational. When the Cabinet Secretary for the National Treasury comes to us, as he did yesterday, we raise the same questions. My point to him when we talked on phone later on was that he should not be very mean in the BPS next year. Those were my words. If he is very mean in the BPS, we will try to vary the figures ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: What point do I want to make? It is that these are the early stages. We are dealing with a Government that is very ambitious about what it wants to achieve. We are dealing with figures. As the Chairman of the Budget and Appropriations Committee, I am satisfied with the facts as they are. That is notwithstanding the fact that we were not quite involved in the process at its earlier stages. I commend the Liaison Committee for the work they did and the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the work they have done in catching up. They have tried ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. Before, I move the amendments, I think we owe a great debt of gratitude in this country to have a President who is very focused in terms of what he wants to achieve for Kenya. One of the things that humbled me is his commitment to the implementation of the Constitution and the priority policy positions in the areas that are going to change our economy across the country in education, health, energy, water and things that will change Kenya going forward. Personally, as the Chair of Budget and Appropriations Committee, I feel much honoured, as ... view
• 15 Jun 2016 in National Assembly: I stand guided, Hon. Speaker. Before I move further amendments to further amendments, let me also just remind the Hon. Members that in Article 26 of the Report that I tabled, you will notice that we have not completed all the allocations with respect to the Equalisation Fund. I also want to indicate that we will be getting all the information tomorrow. It will be captured in the Appropriation Bill. That is captured in the Report, so that you do not ask yourself how come the details on the Equalisation Fund are not there. They have already been covered. Coming ... view