Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: will benefit 11 counties, and some where gazetted water towers are do not have resources. That is the sought of inquiry that the Committee on Finance and Budget ought to make, where Senators can understand. Why are we giving people money for agriculture? What are they supposed to do with forests? What is it that the Senate and the Senators can participate in? Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am supporting this with a lot of restraint. I cannot explain to anybody why I have stood up today to support, except that there is more money to counties. There is the ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: The national Government is slowly taking over these functions and managing them in Nairobi because governors do not know where this money is coming from, and where they are getting equipment. Yesterday, we were arguing with Sen. Omogeni. They bought a machine and the national Government has bought a similar one. Now they have no room to keep it. They had no choice, and the governor was possibly forced to sign it. We have said nothing and all these things have become business as usual. It is the new normal. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: The national Government is slowly taking over these functions and managing them in Nairobi because governors do not know where this money is coming from, and where they are getting equipment. Yesterday, we were arguing with Sen. Omogeni. They bought a machine and the national Government has bought a similar one. Now they have no room to keep it. They had no choice, and the governor was possibly forced to sign it. We have said nothing and all these things have become business as usual. It is the new normal. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Whilst counties are not receiving funds - and I am glad that the Chairman has reported that counties have begun to receive funds - the national Government is engaging on these other funds with donors on conditions we are not aware of as the Senate. Most likely, even the governors are not aware of it, and they are not sharing these documents. There is no framework, policy, and worse, oversight for conditional grants. I asked a question and have not been answered to date. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Whilst counties are not receiving funds - and I am glad that the Chairman has reported that counties have begun to receive funds - the national Government is engaging on these other funds with donors on conditions we are not aware of as the Senate. Most likely, even the governors are not aware of it, and they are not sharing these documents. There is no framework, policy, and worse, oversight for conditional grants. I asked a question and have not been answered to date. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: When the reports come to us, like the one that have been tabled here on the expenditure by counties, there is no column on these conditional grants. It means that even when Sen. M. Kajwang’ and his Committee are interrogating governors, this particular subject disappears without any questions to those governors. Even if you did, they would not know what to say. It is not a nice way of doing things. I want to protest that I do not feel that this Senate ought to be taken for a ride, casually or lightly. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: When the reports come to us, like the one that have been tabled here on the expenditure by counties, there is no column on these conditional grants. It means that even when Sen. M. Kajwang’ and his Committee are interrogating governors, this particular subject disappears without any questions to those governors. Even if you did, they would not know what to say. It is not a nice way of doing things. I want to protest that I do not feel that this Senate ought to be taken for a ride, casually or lightly. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: I am glad that the Chairman mentioned that when the national Government, through the National Treasury approached the Committee, they just wanted us to sneak in these figures in the previous County Allocation Revenue Act (CARA) of 2018, without going through the division of revenue. We can go a step further next time and ask them to bring the paperwork for all these conditional grants and the conditions they have imposed on the Kenyan nation. We would want to know how much they have committed in terms of debts to those counties and, lastly, who in the county or Treasury ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: I am glad that the Chairman mentioned that when the national Government, through the National Treasury approached the Committee, they just wanted us to sneak in these figures in the previous County Allocation Revenue Act (CARA) of 2018, without going through the division of revenue. We can go a step further next time and ask them to bring the paperwork for all these conditional grants and the conditions they have imposed on the Kenyan nation. We would want to know how much they have committed in terms of debts to those counties and, lastly, who in the county or Treasury ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Lastly, I have been thinking seriously about the audit. I think it is time, just like we have a Parliamentary Budget Office, that this Senate considers a Parliamentary Audit Office; a full office of auditors who will help us interrogate these matters from time to time. I am pleading with the Chairman, who is also the Senator for Mandera County, to help this Senate by beginning to interrogate the quarterly reports of the Controller of Budget. I think that is the starting point. The second one is to compel the Controller of Budget to give us the reports they receive ... view