Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will be very brief. The main purpose of this Bill is the establishment of a framework and functions of the transition to county treasuries, county budget process, revenue raising measures and expenditures for county governments; responsibilities of transition county accounting officers and receivers of the revenue, prior to the establishment of the county governments. In fact, what we are saying is that this is really an omission. You are aware that we passed the Public Finance Management Act and the County Governments Bill, but we forgot to include transition clauses in those Bills. With ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: So, that is an omission which we are now trying to cure through this Bill. What we are saying is that the transition ought to be between 5th March, 2012 and, latest, 30th June. Any time the governor puts in place his executive committee and he has the person in charge of finance and he is in a position to employ his own staff; as and when they employ their own staff, the transitional officers will immediately get out. This is basically what the Act is saying. It is saying that the moment the county government has employed the transitional ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, even for the others, what we are proposing is that there will be the transition head of the county finance department. This was also omitted. The two Acts of Parliament assume that on 12th March, 2013, there will be a finance department, but we know that it will take a few months for counties to set up the departments. So, this Bill provides for a transitional principal officer, so that we do not get into a constitutional crisis. The Count Governments Bill says that the governor will be sworn-in by the secretary of the county ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: So, basically, we are again saying that there will be a transition head of economic affairs department who shall be responsible for economic analysis and budgeting. There view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to thank the hon. Members for those very useful suggestions. Indeed, I want to confirm to the Chairman of the Budget Committee, hon. Nkaisserry and the other hon. Members that, indeed, I have already prepared an amendment and it is already with the Clerk’s office to say that on 30th September 2013, this Act will automatically lapse in order to avoid this Authority perpetuating itself by saying that this country is not ready and you will still require more time or by saying that the people you have employed are ... view
• 20 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: I thank hon. Members for those very useful suggestions and I beg to move. view
• 19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, my Assistant Minister was actually supposed to answer this Question. He is on the way and he has the answer. So, let us allow him to come and answer it. We were doing consultations there and I am sorry about that. view
• 19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Yes, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did and it is being prepared. If I may just explain why it has taken longer than I expected, we spent the whole of last night at the Treasury trying to prepare four Bills. They have just started this morning on the CDF Statement. view
• 19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: This afternoon, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. view
• 19 Dec 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if we follow the law, it says that the disbursement should be done every quarter. We have actually disbursed all the amounts due as at 31st December. So, let us not follow the law because this was another agreement. If we follow the law, we have fulfilled it. We have disbursed all the required CDF funds as at 31st December. I have those facts and I will come with them this afternoon. view