Prof. Anyang' Nyong'o

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 May 2016 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. I did not want to interrupt my friend, Sen. Murkomen, but is he in order to aver that there are signatures that are not valid, without at the same time explaining to this House, in an authoritative manner, what a signature is? Is the Senator in a position to distinguish between a valid signature written in Amharic, hieroglyphics and Gujarati? view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I beg to second the Motion. To begin with, I would like to draw the attention of the House to the Sixth Schedule of the Constitution of the Republic of Kenya which is about Transitional and Consequential Provisions. I will be particular on Provision 17 on Provincial Administration which states that:- “Within five years after the effective date, the national government shall restructure the system of administration commonly known as the provincial administration to accord with and respect the system of devolved government established under this Constitution.” view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, if you go to the section that gives definitions to terms used in the Constitution, I am sure it will give you a definition of “the effective date.” The Mover of this Motion, who is the Senate Majority Leader in the House, is a lawyer. I am sure he has advised the Government when the effective date of the Constitution was. Indeed, we are way passed the effective date and there has been no indication, whatsoever, either in terms of sessional papers or Bills that state the steps that the Jubilee Government has taken to respect ... view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, we have talked about it, the Mover has said quite rightly and it has been said in both the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget and the CPAIC of this House that one of the problems in the counties is wastage and pilferage. One of the problems in the national Government is also wastage and pilferage. The biggest problem of wastage is that we are running two systems of government; the national Government and devolved The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained ... view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I apologise because we deal with the division of revenue in the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget. This is the County Allocation Revenue Bill. It comes after the Division of Revenue Bill, I understand that. However, the point is still made. Whether it is the Division of Revenue Bill or the County Allocation of Revenue Bill, have we ever taken time? I know that as the Committee on Finance, Commerce and Budget, we try to do so but as the Senate, let alone the committees, now that the Bill is in front of us, can ... view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: I will just mention two things in the county Government. The county government is given the responsibility of looking after the environment which is an extremely important function. The environment is now more or less everything. If you look at function No.10 – implementation of specific national Government policies on natural resources and environmental conservation including soil and water conservation and forestry, I would bet you my bottom dollar that if you go through the 47 counties, very few of them allocate sufficient resources for environmental conservation. view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: Note that the national government in its policies, prescribes to the county governments how to use revenues for soil and water conservation and forestry. I am speaking with authority in this because when I was head of programmes at the African Academy of Sciences many years ago, we developed a project for the whole of Africa called soil and water management in Africa. It influenced many African Governments to connect the issue of soil and water management and afforestation. view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: In my own county; the county of Kisumu, only 1 per cent of the land surface is forested. This is a disaster in the making. If I go to my City of Kisumu County, the only section of the city which is partially forested is Milimani. The rest of the estates where people live; whether it is Nyalenda, Obunga or Manyatta, afforestation is wanting. You know that part of the problem with climate change is a destruction of the environment that has made haywire the climate of the world. view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: It is not by mistake that the framers of this Constitution gave this responsibility to counties because people live in counties. I would like us, when we retreat, after the budget, that we take time to look at the budgets that have been passed so far and functions of devolved governments and find out whether year in year out, we have not been doing good service to our counties. view
• 4 May 2016 in Senate: The other thing that I want us to talk about us is putting in place structures of devolution. Again, I would like to inform this House that if you examine all counties in Kenya today, none of them has put in place structures of devolution as enshrined in the Constitution and in the County Governments Act. I do not think there is any county today which has a village council. None! Yet, people in counties live in villages. If devolution is going to be a mashinani affair, it has to go down to the villages and it must be budgeted ... view