Richard Onyonka

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Generally, the Bill is reasonably enhanced but there are certain basic items that we need to start interrogating and looking at. An example is the issue of the conditional grants, which my colleagues have discussed. The governors and Members of the County Assemblies (MCAs) need to start taking this money seriously. The Parliamentary Committee that has been visiting various areas to find out whether this money is being utilised effectively need to enhance the monitoring of the use of these funds. The oversight role that the national Parliament and the county assemblies play should come in handy to make sure ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Secondly, this money has successfully and effectively been allocated for provision of health services. If we are to evaluate how the health sector in this country has been performing, we will realise that we have done very badly. As you notice, nurses have frequently been going on strikes. Many of our health facilities do not have medicines. We need to rethink as to how medicines in this country are being distributed and establish if there is need for the Kenya Medical Supplies Authority (KEMSA) to be devolved to the county level. I am sure that this matter has been discussed ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: It is pointless for us to continue talking about the health sector since Independence until now. As a country, up to now we are unable to provide free anti-malaria tablets to our people. An anti-malaria tablet costs as little as Kshs20 but if you go to many of our health facilities you will find that the medicines are not there. The other conditional grant that has been given is for upgrading of health facilities in Lamu and Tana River counties. This was well thought out, given the fact that the two counties are in close proximity to our boarder with ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: There is also a conditional grant which has been given for maintenance of roads. It is a lot of money. We are talking about Kshs4.3 billion. This is the weakest connection at the county level in terms of the amount of money available and the facilities for road construction and road maintenance. The county governments have been urging that they need to stop Members of Parliament or the National Government Constituencies Development Fund from maintaining roads within our own areas of representation. Governors have done extremely shoddy job. Most of the works they have undertaken have been done badly. The ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for helping me from my brother Kaluma. The CDF basically handles all bursary funding for secondary and college institutions. The problem 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
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I believe that there are more conditional grants that have been given to the county governments by the Government of Kenya in form of equipment such as CT scan machines and dialysis machines as well as cancer and heart disease treatment. Even as we do this, we should know that a hospital will not function without personnel to provide the necessary services to patients, right from the moment a patient walks into the facility, in terms of diagnosis of ailment, provision of treatment and discharge of the patient from the facility. We need to ensure that county governments pay their ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: I note that a sum of Kshs14 billion has been allocated for provision of national social safety net for older persons, children welfare, for people with disabilities and for urban food subsidy. I wish we had increased the allocation for these people. The elderly people in this country are very poor and vulnerable. They are suffering. I would want it to be understood that a country that is unable to take care of its elderly people is headed nowhere. I urge this House to make sure that next time we allocate more funds for these people, especially our grandfathers The ... view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: we are having is that the commitment we had to some of the institutions is now coming back to us and the public may not know that we are stuck with the issue. What needs to be done is to expedite this matter through Delegated Legislation Committee. We can do it faster if the Attorney-General is asked by our Chairman to expedite execution of the regulations, so that we can debate them here and finalise. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: and grandmothers. We should make sure that the number of beneficiaries per constituency increases from the current 500 to 1,000 people and enhance it progressively over the years until we are able to take care of at least 50 per cent of our older generation. view
• 24 Mar 2016 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view