Dr. Oburu Odinga

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 731 to 740 of 1648.

• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: I have not even made my statement! view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: But, Mr. Speaker, Sir! view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Article 223 of the Constitution states as follows:- view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, Article 223 says:- “(1) Subject to clauses (2) to (4), the national government may spend money that has not been appropriated if - (a) the amount appropriated for any purpose under the Appropriation Act is insufficient or a need has arisen for expenditure for a purpose for which no amount has been appropriated by that Act.” This means that if we are spending money which has not been appropriated by the Government and approved by Parliament, of course, we can spent it and then come later on for approval but what we are doing is spending money ... view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we are not operating under that clause because this clause only refers to monies which have not been appropriated. As far as we are concerned, the monies were approved by this Parliament. What was not approved is what Mr. Mbadi is alluding to; that they were not for this particular purpose but reallocation of funds is within the administration of the funds by the Treasury. This is specifically given to the Permanent Secretary of the Treasury. Reallocation of funds is within the powers of the Treasury. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I did not quite get the question. That is because he is asking about ESP, which is not the subject which we are discussing here. That is because ESP is purely funded from Government funds. It has nothing to do with donor funding. So, that question really is not quite in line with what I am answering. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I thought I read out the specific programmes that are affected by the refunds in my answer. I do not know whether I should repeat them. view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In respect of Arid and Semi-Arid Resources Management Project, Ministry of State for the Development of Northern Kenya and Other Arid Lands, the monies which are suspected to have been wrongly spent amount to Kshs40 million. That money has already been refunded. The second one is Kenya Education Sector Support Project, Ministry of Education where Kshs347,972,827.38 was refunded, leaving a balance of Kshs2,192,202,728.38 for the fast track initiative to be refunded later in the current financial year. West Kenya Community-Driven Development and Flood Mitigation Project, Ministry of State for Special Programmes, KShs8.7 million has been refunded. ... view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Ministry of Education does not audit itself. The audit which we are talking about was carried out by the internal audit, together with the World Bank, and these figures were confirmed. If, for whatever reasons the Ministry wants to please the Public Accounts Committee, we are not aware as the Ministry of Finance. What we are dealing with is the official audit--- view
• 15 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we requested the Ministry of Education to indicate to us the areas where they can reallocate money without making any programmes suffer. That is why we are not refunding the whole amount. What is normally done in reallocations is look at areas where monies are unlikely to be spent by the end of the financial year. That is where monies are reallocated. Therefore, there is no programme which will suffer. view