Rev. Mutava Musyimi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 431 to 440 of 1501.

• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: stakeholders, among others the National Treasury, Controller of Budget, Commission on Revenue Allocation and the Intergovernmental Budget Economic Council (IBEC), had actually taken place. We were at pace to remind ourselves that once the law puts in place an institution then we need to respect the work of that institution. The institution we call IBEC is in Section 187 of the Public Finance Management (PFM) Act. In that law, it is clear that the people who sit around the table are the managers of our resources at levels of Governments, the national Government and the county governments. Indeed this forum ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I suspect the drafters of our Constitution knowing how crucial the Division of Revenue Bill is, never imagined that it would ever be subjected to the vagaries of politics and mediation. They never imagined the possibility of collapse of this Bill. I suspect that may be so because they did institute upfront the mechanism to negotiate the numbers; that is what the IBEC is all about. That upfront forum of negotiation is the one that probably made the drafters of our Constitution relax, perhaps naively in the honest understanding that the possibility a Bill collapsing was out of ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Let us think again about the process we have been through. There are those who are here, perhaps imagining that this report may be opposed and then we make it “they- and-them” debate in terms of our usual politics that they support devolution and we do not support devolution. They support this and we do not support it. view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, we are the National Assembly. I had my own personal views, I will be frank with you, but I have to set them aside in public interest. I plead with those Members who may have had the views that I did, as indeed my Committee did, because we struggled to support this report as the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We even said that the issue was not even the amount, it was the principle that we would pass a Bill here and then the Senate arrogated itself powers given to it through judicial activism and some advisory to ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: We were at pains as we discussed that matter but I am here today to plead with hon. Members to support this report. It is in the best interests of this country going forward. We support devolution and I believe all of us do cross to both sides of the aisle. The struggle for this Constitution, for those who perhaps may not know, was a struggle by all of us and all of our people. That struggle was a struggle that was won principally when we put devolution as part of our architecture of Government. I stand here today to ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: allowing for the disbursement of finances in the event that these Bills are not passed in future. As I sit, I want to say two things. Let the message go out to our governors that we know what goes on in the counties. We have given the Auditor-General - this afternoon we will be proposing that he gets a bit more money – the mandate to audit our spending agencies, especially the county governments. We have not just devolved resources and power, hon. Members. We have in reality devolved corruption. That is the tragedy. I do not think that this ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I want to say that the Judiciary itself, through judicial activism, put us in this mess through advisories. We must go there and take out at least Kshs1 billion from the Estimates given to the Judiciary. view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: Finally, the national Government will need to contribute. In all fairness, we too, as Members of the National Assembly, must be seen to be big eager to support devolution and mediation. I request you to allow the Budget and Appropriations Committee to meet, so that we can come here in the afternoon with a considered opinion as to how Kshs3.3 billion will be made available. I thank this hon. House for its robustness, good will and commitment to devolution, which is entirely bipartisan. I now take this opportunity to request my hon. senior, not in years, but in parliamentary protocol, ... view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: I thank you. view
• 3 Jun 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of information, hon. Speaker. view