Robinson Njeru Githae

All parliamentary appearances

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• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, again, I will repeat what I have said. When we were preparing the Budget for this financial year, the county governments were not in existence. In fact, the Treasury had indicated that they wanted to allocate the money right from the beginning. However, we received information from the Attorney-General, the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) and the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC) that this could not be done. That is why The Division of Revenue Bill is in the 2013/2014 Financial Year. If you look at what is provided for in the Act, ... view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, what I was explaining are the practical difficulties on how we proceeded on this basis where there is no Division of Revenue Bill for this year. The reason is that at the time we made the Budget, the counties were not in existence nor were they legal bodies. view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, that would have meant setting aside idle funds for the whole year waiting for the last four months. In my view, that would not have been very prudent management of scarce financial resources. Initially, the CRA was very clear in its mind that it had to do this on an annual basis. There is no quarterly or half yearly allocation. That is the point I was making because it talks of annual allocations. I will give you the practical difficulties. How do you purchase a quarter of a car for the last four months and say ... view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Indeed, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. That is the whole point I was making. We are confusing the two issues of this financial year and the next financial year. view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Listen! Listen! Just be patient enough and listen. What I was saying, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, is that for this year, it was not view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I think that what the Deputy Leader of Government Business said is self-explanatory. The intention was to complete business today, but due to other exigencies, it was not possible. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I would just like to go on record as really thanking the hon. Members of this august House. I know that you should be campaigning, but because of national and call of duty and the fact that you want to do the extra mile, you want to complete all the parliamentary business. For that, I would like to ask all the voters to really take ... view
• 8 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in view of time, I second. view
• 3 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is a notice of Motion. view
• 3 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to give notice of the following Motion:- THAT, this House adopts Sessional Paper No.15 of 2012 on Kenya Government guarantee of a loan of US$93 million equivalent to view
• 3 Jan 2013 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move the following Motion:- THAT, in accordance with the provisions of Section 223 of the Constitution of Kenya, this House approves the withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund of a sum of Kenya Shillings 58,848,761,483 representing the total net estimates of Recurrent and Development Expenditure made up of the following: (i) A sum not exceeding Kshs56,745,830,182 be granted from the Consolidated Fund to meet expenditure during the year ending 30th June, 2013, in respect of Supplementary Estimates of 2012/13 Financial Year (Recurrent) having regard to the proposed reduction of Kshs. 6,005,491,759 therein appearing. (ii) ... view