Onyonka Richard Momoima

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Sen. Eddy, I did not find that information useful, but I accept the data you have given me. Finally, the human-wildlife conflict in Lamu County is another matter that needs to be handled with care and urgency because this is not the first time it is happening. I believe that the committees responsible will interrogate this matter as soon as possible. If not, the small incidents you see happening will degenerate and end up becoming some of the big issues that affect our country. I thank you so much for giving me the opportunity to ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. First of all, I would like to commend my colleagues who have articulated this issue as openly and as sincerely as we have been talking about it. I thank Sen. (Dr.) Oburu Odinga for acknowledging that even when the model of Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) has been accepted as the modus operandi of how we are going to run our projects in terms of investments and all that we are supposed to do, even when the PPP issue has been a hot topic in Kenya--- It is my hope and wish that, yes, let us adopt ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: thank you for noticing that we need to separate the Central Bank of Kenya and the National Treasury from the Executive. That is, in fact, one of the challenges that we are going to face as a Committee, and we are going to interrogate this. I also want to give credit to my brother, Sen. Mungatana. Thank you, Sir. Your experience and time have enabled you to analyze these issues impassionedly. I believe that what you have discussed will make Kenya a better place. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the public debt management issue in our country is at a crisis ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: that we were borrowing when we would need a stopgap measure where we would borrow most probably 10 or five percent, or whatever the balance was, and then our budget would be balanced, and we would keep on moving as the economy was growing. Now, we borrow for big projects. We borrow for those projects where billions and billions, not Kenyan shillings, but billions and billions of American Dollars are borrowed. As a result, the money that was supposed to deal with the basic issues of our governance and existence, for instance, the health sector, education, agriculture, and the very ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: that the public debt management system is linked to the Integrated Financial Management Information System (IFMIS), as well as the own-source revenue systems. How can you have a financial platform in your country that deliberately has been cut into sections, bits and pieces because it makes it easier for those who are cutting deals and making money out of these state resources to do it without it looking seamless, yet in reality, we are not seamlessly managing our debt and revenue, instead, we are seamlessly managing the stealing of those revenues and the resources? view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to insist that, yes, the automation must be done on even how the withdrawals of payments for the repayment of the debts that we have. As like Sen. Eddy Oketch has said, why do we not know what the debt stock in our republic is? You have the Auditor-General giving you a different figure and the Controller of Budget giving you a different figure. The other day, the Committee on Finance and Budget gave us a figure of Kshs12 trillion. I believe that our debt right now is at about Kshs14 trillion. Can we ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I would like to comment on another issue. I have watched what is happening in our country and I have seen this for quite a long time. The reason is I have been around for a while. Unless we change the way we behave, change the strategies that we use and change the social-political economic behaviour as leadership, we are taking our country in the wrong direction. Why do I say so? We have a country and you expect what runs the economy of this country is the private sector. The private sector - the small businesses, ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: For us to fix our country, yes, this House can come up with recommendations but unless we have structures and institutions that are going to be the defence mechanism we use to deter our bad behaviour, we will not go anywhere. Why? Sen. Omtatah, it has been nearly a week that we have not seen a scandal but you will notice every single time in our Republic, there is scandal after scandal after scandal about public money. Madam Temporary Speaker, can we stop the abuse, misuse and wastage of public funds, so that we serve the Kenyan public with the ... view
• 19 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. I just wanted to say that let us make sure there we have an open, transparent government, where we are accountable to each other, where we manage the resources of our country with prudence and respect and Kenyans will be always happy that we were in this House. I hope that this House, and the Committee on Finance and Budget will stand up for the Kenyans. Madam Temporary Speaker, with those remarks, I second the Motion. view