Robert Pukose

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill. Streamlining the procurement processes at both the national Government and county government levels is crucial to the development of this country. Since the creation of the county governments, we have had a lot of teething problems, especially in the procurement process. We have not had very clear laid down procedures on how the counties should carry out the procurement process. We have had a lot of challenges. In the last financial years, many counties overspent in terms of giving out tenders. Some of them ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Transition Authority (TA) did not perform well in terms of guiding the counties on how they should do their procurement. This law has come a bit late and, therefore, it needs to be fast-tracked so that we can properly deal with the issue of procurement, both at the national and county levels. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: In Part II, this Bill seeks to provide a design and prescribe an efficient procurement management system for the national and county governments to ensure transparent procurement procedures and asset disposal as contemplated in Article 227 of the Constitution, provided that the National Treasury shall prescribe, through regulations, a system under this paragraph, which operates, respects and promotes the distinctiveness of the national and county levels of government. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, in this Bill, there is provision for technical assistance on procurement matters and assisting in the implementation and operations of the public procurement and asset disposal systems, by the National Treasury. The Bill seeks to devolve the procurement process to the county level. One of the biggest challenges that we face as a nation is that, as much as the Constitution provides that the youth and the women should also be covered by the procurement procedures, the tenders that have been given to women and the youth are the small ones – which do not carry ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: significant amounts of money. This will not help our economy to grow as much as we wanted. Giving women and the youth small tenders like supplying stationary, cleaning of towns or offices as opposed to giving them the mega businesses is not good for our country. view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Under Clause 9(d), the proposed Public Procurement Regulatory Authority will undertake monitoring of classified procurement information, including that of security organs, and make recommendations to the Cabinet Secretary. You are monitoring classified procurement information and giving it to the Cabinet Secretary, who is answerable to the appointing authority, namely; the Executive. How do you expect such information to be used by the Cabinet Secretary to ensure that proper procurement procedures are followed? In the past, corruption thrived in Government because procurement was shrouded in secrecy. Corrupt officials would withhold information required by the Controller and Auditor-General on the basis that ... view
• 19 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, since many of my colleagues are waiting to contribute to this debate, let me conclude by saying that I support this Bill with various amendments. Thank you. view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, thank you for allowing me to make a few comments on this Order of Precedence Bill. I want to thank hon. Keynan for the effort he has put in; I want to also thank hon. Members for having sat here. There was a lot of interest on this Bill. As you know in our country, after the passage of our current Constitution, we have undergone many changes. It is upon this House to streamline issues, make sure that things are done properly and everybody is referred to accordingly. I want to thank hon. Members because today ... view
• 18 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this very important Motion in which we resolve that our country should stop investing in nuclear energy. Putting into consideration the efforts that have been put by the International Energy Atomic Agency in terms of making the world free of nuclear energy, it will be negative for us as a country to start now moving into that direction where we start investing in nuclear energy. As has been put clearly by the Member for Emuhaya, to invest in one nuclear plant, we need half a trillion shillings which ... view
• 17 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker for allowing me to contribute to this Public Audit Bill, National Assembly Bill, No.38 of 2014. Hon. Speaker, this is a very important Bill. As we talk about the Office of the Auditor General, we know that we faced a lot of challenges especially in many Ministries 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