Mutula Kilonzo Jnr

All parliamentary appearances

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• 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
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Controller of Budget is summarising information for us, without us interrogating what information they received. It is no wonder that while we are seated here, a governor is being interrogated or investigated for misappropriation of Kshs2 billion. That money would have disappeared from Migori County and everybody in the system would not notice, including the Senate. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Therefore, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Controller of Budget is summarising information for us, without us interrogating what information they received. It is no wonder that while we are seated here, a governor is being interrogated or investigated for misappropriation of Kshs2 billion. That money would have disappeared from Migori County and everybody in the system would not notice, including the Senate. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Article in the Constitution that allows the stoppage of funds to counties should be applied. It can only be applied once the information is in the Senate, and we can interrogate it. This is because at the end of this session, the 26 governors – who are now on their second terms and have Kshs2 billion or Kshs4 billion in their accounts in Kenya - will relocate to the Cayman Islands or the Comoros. We will then have zero that we can deal with, because we will be auditing their accounts while they are hiding ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, the Article in the Constitution that allows the stoppage of funds to counties should be applied. It can only be applied once the information is in the Senate, and we can interrogate it. This is because at the end of this session, the 26 governors – who are now on their second terms and have Kshs2 billion or Kshs4 billion in their accounts in Kenya - will relocate to the Cayman Islands or the Comoros. We will then have zero that we can deal with, because we will be auditing their accounts while they are hiding ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: We have given credit to those people who think that this House should be removed from the Constitution. Why? It is because they cannot see us on the ground. We have been denied funds and, therefore, cannot go to monitor what governors are doing. They appear here and leave, yet the people in our counties can tell you that these people are stealing because there is no money in their projects. The Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) are in bed, hook, line and sinker with the governors; they will, therefore, not do anything. They have become a club where they ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: We have given credit to those people who think that this House should be removed from the Constitution. Why? It is because they cannot see us on the ground. We have been denied funds and, therefore, cannot go to monitor what governors are doing. They appear here and leave, yet the people in our counties can tell you that these people are stealing because there is no money in their projects. The Members of County Assemblies (MCAs) are in bed, hook, line and sinker with the governors; they will, therefore, not do anything. They have become a club where they ... view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: If the Controller of Budget, for example, did not bother to copy me the objections on the budget of Makueni County – and the things that she found absolutely out of tune with the Public Finance Management – I would not have known that the County of Makueni has put some things in their budget that they cannot explain. That is the problem about not interrogating these people. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: If the Controller of Budget, for example, did not bother to copy me the objections on the budget of Makueni County – and the things that she found absolutely out of tune with the Public Finance Management – I would not have known that the County of Makueni has put some things in their budget that they cannot explain. That is the problem about not interrogating these people. view
• 15 Nov 2018 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if we need to empower the Controller of Budget to do more, we can do so. But to stand here on 15th November, 2018, and say, “I support, please give counties more money and let us make sure we have prudent use of resources” is an extreme waste of our time, public funds and our brains in doing this sort of thing which has nothing. We are passing something we do not know or have information on. They say information is power. This Senate has no power because it has no information. What we are doing ... view