Dr. Paul Otuoma

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 281 to 290 of 412.

• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Indeed, this Question was answered previously by my colleague hon. Ndeti and further information as sought. Last week, I tabled further information of the signatories of the youth that were paid during the Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, during the process of tabling those documents, further information came up and I shared this with the hon. Member; that a whole location, Bangale Location, the youth who were supposed to have been paid, there were variances between the signatures of the recipients. We instituted investigations and the Youth Officer in that area was removed to be able to facilitate that further investigation. As we stand now, we are trying to verify why there are discrepancies in these signatures and of course, this borders on something that is of criminal nature. We have involved the police ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have said that when this information came to my attention, the Youth Officer was removed to facilitate for investigations. Of course the police are doing the investigations. Once this is through, the necessary steps are going to be taken to ensure that the youth who worked receive their money and those who were fraudulently paid without working, that money is recovered from them. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: I want to say that on this issue of Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme, we have tried to streamline it. We know that this was part of the Economic Stimulus Programme to try and create jobs for the youth and various Ministries were involved in these activities. Indeed, my Ministry was involved in tree planting as part of the component and I have come in and said that in future, I do not want this mode of payment. Payments should be made through financial institutions in whatever form that it can be done so that we avoid these kinds of issues. ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that is a completely different Question. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you have said that you would have wished to be on the other side of the House. The Youth Enterprise Development Fund is a different thing from Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme. As I said, when I took over this issue, I looked at the widespread problem in terms of the way we were executing the programme and I have instituted measures to change this. One of the obvious measures and I have already said, is that people should not be paid in this form; money should be paid to the accounts, so that the idea of ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in, indeed, I had said earlier on that when I looked at the way we were implementing the programme, I saw that there were some weaknesses and I have already taken measures to address those weaknesses. So, let us not be very much afraid because some of the problems that we experienced initially – and this happens – when you start paying people money over the counter, a lot of vested interests arise. This is when you realise what the hon. Member has said that there are even people whose names appear on the payment schedule ... view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am sure these are Government records and I will avail them. view
• 30 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, those are some of the corrective measures that we are taking and I want to reassure this House that audits are part and parcel when you receive public funds. We will undertake that to make sure that there are properly audited reports on all the programmes. That is the only way we can be sure that we achieve what we envisage to achieve through Kazi Kwa Vijana Programme. view