Hon. Richard Nyagaka Tongi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for the opportunity. I ask for your guidance. Is it in order for the Leader of the Minority Party to indicate that when you do not know how to speak very well, you are not qualified to be a leader? Is leadership measured by the capacity to speak? We have great leaders in the world who do not know how to speak. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to speak to this Report. From the outset, I support it. I support it because it has brought out the issue of lack of information out there. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As we all know, the good Bible says: “My people perish because of lack of information”. So, when we have opportunity of getting information like we have now, we are now able to make out or have a better understanding of what is going and interrogate the reports and what the NG-CDF does. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Yesterday, I had opportunity to listen to my colleagues who made contributions in the House. They spoke at length about the NG-CDF and what it has done. I do not want to repeat most of the things they said. We all appreciate that the NG-CDF has impacted the society in a more powerful way than any other fund in the Government system. Today, if you go to any part of the country, you are likely to see a project which has been initiated using the NG-CDF money, a clear indicator that we understand the terrain and the needs of our ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: As a House and as Kenyans, we need to appreciate that there are other institutions which have been given money. For example, governors and county governments have been given billions of shillings, but there is not much you can show for that kind of money. Where the NG- CDF has been used to construct a classroom at a cost of about Kshs500,000, yesterday it came The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: out clearly that county governments in some regions spend Kshs2 million to Kshs3 million to do a classroom. Clearly, that is misuse of public funds. We cannot have that happening in one institution or school where the NG-CDF uses Kshs500,000 to do a classroom, but the county government, using the same materials, environment and structures, use about Kshs3 million to do the same classroom. We need to encourage the Auditor-General to be as aggressive on county governments as he is on the NG-CDF, so that Kenyans can get value for money. view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: We need to educate our Members and create a forum through which we will educate the public to understand what the NG-CDF does and what is done by county governments. There are many instances, and I am sure I am speaking on behalf of my colleagues in the House today, where we have been accused of not doing roads yet they were devolved to counties. A Member of Parliament has no duty and capacity or is not allowed by law to use the NG-CDF money to do roads. But some people, because they do not know, keep asking what the ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It is true, and I agree with my colleagues, that the NG-CDF has impacted society more than any other fund from the national Government. We need to increase the NG-CDF from the 2.5 per cent to 3 per cent of the last Government audited accounts or even more because it has proven that it works more effectively. If it can be increased to a higher level, I am sure we will achieve more as a country because we have seen how the NG-CDF works. The NG-CDF is so itemised that it is almost impossible for any misappropriation of funds to ... view
• 27 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: It is also important for our Members to appreciate that that which cannot be measured cannot be rewarded. We have been having for the longest time, the acting CEO of the NG-CDF Board. He has been acting for almost seven years and we all know that he is a human being. This is a human being who has feelings. He is acting together with the Chairman, Mr. Masese, a very efficient manager. He was the director of education and he did a good job. This Chairman and the NG-CDF CEO are on acting capacity. We need to pass a policy. ... view
• 26 Feb 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to contribute to the Statement. I first want to support the position of the Member that we need to be more considerate, as a country and as a society, towards our people with disabilities. We appreciate the challenges family members go through when they have a person with disability. It is very difficult to take care of such children. They are very expensive. It is only fair that the Government steps and helps such families to mitigate some of the challenges they face. I have seen some cases where ... view