Patrick Makau King'ola

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 281 to 290 of 607.

• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to confess to this House that I was the last Mayor of Mavoko and I used to collect Kshs1.5 billion. The other day, I was shocked to see Machakos County declaring Kshs400 million from the whole county. Remember, there used to be Mavoko Municipal Council, Machakos Municipal Council, Masaku County Council and Kangundo County Council. So, with all those local authorities combined, I expect Machakos County to be collecting more than Kshs3 billion. I am wondering why Senators cannot introduce guidelines and structures to the money that we are releasing to the counties. Governors ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, if you see the functions of governors, you would think they are State functions. All that money is going to such functions; including toilets, kitchens and cooks. We cannot allow it. I am wondering: When did the senators and governors have that kind of marriage? The Senate is supposed to be the oversight authority of counties but, what we are seeing today is that they are emulating the governors. Senate Mashinani is a session of spending Government money. We cannot just sit here and let the senators insult us left, right and centre. It is high ... view
• 18 Sep 2019 in National Assembly: I support. Thank you. view
• 24 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. At one point, I was rising on a point of order wondering why Hon. Atandi was referring to two presidents. It is public knowledge that Hon. Kalonzo is the president of the China missions… view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. It can never be put better than that. The passion with which the Chair, PAC has explained that Report leaves no doubt. It is true. Let me thank the office of the Auditor-General and Members of PAC for the tireless time they took to examine this Report. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: When I hear some members saying some part of the Report should be expunged, it hurts me because if you look at how monies were wasted by IEBC, any Kenyan will know there was no proper use of the taxpayers’ money. For example, I do not think the Chairman, IEBC had any idea and if he did, he must have misused his powers. You cannot sit in a tender committee and see billions being allocated to direct tenders. For example, the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Director, Mr. Muhati authorised the purchase of bundle data worth Kshs1.8 billion that went ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Again, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Mr. Ezra Chiloba gave out a direct contract of Kshs452,006,000 for International Business Machines (IBM) Biometric Voter Registration (BVR) machines which were not used. We cannot sit here and say there was value for money. If you look at the provisions of Section 11A of the IEBC Act, it is clear that the CEO did not advice the Commission or did not implement any policy by the commission. In fact, I want to invite this House--- If you watch National Geographic, you will see there was a rush for who is who in the ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: It is high time this House adopted this Report this time when we are talking about corruption. I do not think this is corruption but direct theft. It has become a tendency in this country every electioneering year for all State Agencies to have pending bills. The 2013 and 2017 pending bills are still outstanding. It is upon this House, and particularly the National Treasury and the office of the Auditor-General to see what can be done about the IEBC pending The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: bills. As time goes by these bills are attracting interest from the firms that were illegally awarded contracts. The economy of this country is not doing very well. It is high time this Report is implemented to the letter. I want to commend PAC Members plus our very able Chair who has put a lot of time to this. This Report is not in vain. I invite Members, as I second, to support it. Let this country realise that the National Assembly is serious and everybody liable must be held culpable. With those few remarks, I second. Thank you. view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity. There is a saying in English which says: “In by the gun, out by the gun”. I appreciate and hear the Member. If the same Member is in this House and he went to radio stations speaking Kimeru and Kikuyu, is it not in order for him to also go to the same stations and tell the same view