Ochilo George Mbogo Ayacko

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for the opportunity to speak. This House has a very onerous responsibility to oversight and ensure that public funds are properly used, as allocated to counties by us. We also have a responsibility to ensure that members of the public in the counties that we represent get value for the money that they give us the privilege to allocate to them. This duty is constitutional and constitutional duties are solemn duties. Madam Temporary Speaker, as representatives of counties, we have been lampooned, lambasted and attacked both by the Executive and by our younger sister House, ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: need to see action. Those who are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that there is implementation of these reports need to act upon them. If investigations are recommended, we need to see people getting investigated. If prosecution is preferred in the reports, we need to see prosecutions happening. I am sure that lawyers inside and outside this House will get good briefs, and courts will get busy. Consequently, the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will get a lot of work to do. I am sure lawyers inside and outside this House will get good briefs and courts will get ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, on the issue of whether reports of the Committee on County Public Accounts and Investment (CPAIC) are acted upon, my armchair assessment is that - I have not done scientific survey - on that score we are also not doing well. There is very little implementation out there. When we look at reports that were done by the previous Senate and are already known, it appears that oversight, as a constitutional and solemn duty of this House on the account of whether the reports are being implemented, is also an area where the score should be up-scaled. ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, in previous the Parliaments that I served in, there used to be a last meeting by the Big Five: the Head of Public Service, Attorney-General, Auditor-General, a representative from the Treasury and other investigative agencies to give a report as to the state of implementation of reports of the Public Accounts Committee and Public Investments Committee. They should clearly indicate the state of implementation of such reports and that would give encouragement to Members of the Committee who sit for hours without end that they do not sit in vain. It would give encouragement to the House ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Sen. Githiomi and I had the distinguished honour of serving in previous Public Accounts Committee and Public Investments Committee and we were also chairs of those committees. We were happy that a few things were implemented. However, we were disappointed that there were many things which others found politically convenient not to implement. I hope the implementers of this report will not hide under political correctness to fail to implement the reports. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, the third parameter of assessing whether oversight functions of Parliament or parliamentary committees are effective is the sufficient time that is accorded for the reports of the Committee to be debated. It is important that a House of this kind that brags or thinks that it is the “Upper House” should accord sufficient time, attention and skill and apply itself when debating these matters. If all of us were to run away from this House so that only Members of this Committee talk to empty benches, then oversight suffers. Oversight is not just about talking in the ... view
• 16 Oct 2019 in Senate: county executives and that they have not been able to summon speakers and clerks of County Assemblies. Madam Temporary Speaker, you may have had the occasion to look at the newspaper today and other previous reports. You will see the kind of financial misbehavior by county assemblies. We have seen how Taita-Taveta County which is represented by Sen. Mwaruma is expending public resources that they do not have. We have seen how other counties spend monies they should have used for development on unnecessary activities. When they are asked to account for the same or when there is an attempt ... view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I wish to state clearly that I am in support of this Motion. This House is about fairness and justice. The fairness The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 15 Oct 2019 in Senate: we are talking about is procedural fairness, and this Motion kick-starts the process of procedural fairness. I am sure at the appropriate sitting, there will be time for substantive justice, which all of us should be able to deliver. I am in support of the setting up of the Select Committee because it would be efficient, timely and able to meet the strict timeliness that is required, as opposed to a Plenary that would take more time, and perhaps, be difficult when it comes to processing evidence. Lastly, you have stated clearly that there is no injunction against the Senate. ... view