Priscilla Nyokabi Kanyua

All parliamentary appearances

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• 18 May 2017 in National Assembly: we have no way of selling them from Nyeri because we do not have an airstrip where large planes can land. Many of these measures might apply to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) and Moi International Airport for now but I think the Report will be useful as the country develops and we look at expanding the airstrips and airports that we will have. I support the Report. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Division of Revenue Bill and especially the allocations and the manner in which they have been done this year. I congratulate the National Treasury and the Budget and Appropriations Committee for the work we continue to do in improving the sharing of revenue between the national Government and county governments. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: The Ksh323,757,000,000 is sufficient amount of funding for our counties in this country. With Kshs323 billion going to the counties, the only regrettable thing is that lives are not changing. We need to ask ourselves why that is so. The accountability question comes to the fore but Kshs323 billion for the next financial year is sufficient allocation for the counties. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We have the question of the formula pending and it is time the second generation formula was used so that we give more allocation to all the 47 counties. The assumption earlier was that if the marginalised counties got a lot more funding, then they would invest a lot of their money in development and catch up with the rest of the country. What we are seeing with the county funds is that corruption is from county No.1 to county No.47. Misuse of funds is from county No. 1 to county No.47. As we look at the second generation formula, ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On conditional allocations, most of which are covered well in the Bill, I wish to support most of them. This is leasing of medical equipment where 94 hospitals in all the 47 counties, two in each, are going to get hospital equipment worth the status of Level 5 hospitals. In Nyeri, we await equipment for the Mukurwe-ini Hospital. We hope with the Kshs4.5 billion here allocated, hospitals like Mukurwe-ini will get all the equipment we have been waiting for. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: For the Level 5 funding, we have the Nyeri Level 5 Hospital, Provincial General Hospital. We are happy that the funding is sufficient; the Kshs4.2 billion for the 11 Level 5 hospitals. But, a question has remained why these monies cannot be sent directly to the hospitals. Sending funds relating to hospitals to county governments accounts does not help anybody. It does not help the hospitals and the county. In my county of Nyeri, we have passed a law that requires every hospital to create a board and the office of the CEO where the hospital can receive the money ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On the construction of county headquarters, we have very few counties in this country that do not have headquarters. Our neighbour in Nyeri is Nyandarua and I am happy that there is an allocation to construct county headquarters for counties that do not have them. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On the rehabilitation of youth polytechnics, again Kshs2 billon has been provided for in the Budget. I want to urge that some of this money is used to pay the tutors. Tutors of our polytechnics have remained unpaid since the days of the Economic Stimulus Programme (ESP). Many of them were hired under the ESP. It is time that funding like this is also used to pay the tutors in the polytechnics even as we rehabilitate them. There is the Fuel Levy Fund. Let me also add that the road network continues to be expanded. I think we should have ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: county governments to do murram roads. They can do thousands of kilometres with the amount of money that has been allocated to them. The national Government can take up tarmac roads and we should insist that the tarmac roads should then have a unit cost per kilometre. We continue to spend a lot of unnecessary money on some of the constructions that we have. In our neighbouring countries, the unit cost of building a kilometre of tarmac road is much lower than what we are paying here in Kenya. Having governors do tarmac roads is not helping. The funds that ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We have the question of accountability and the unit cost of doing things. I have been in the Budget and Appropriations Committee. We had community projects funding. I have realised that Kshs10 million can put up a dormitory of 200 students without having middlemen and contractors. A dam can also be constructed with Kshs8 million when there are no middle men, contractors--- view