Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to also contribute to the President’s Speech which was delivered well. I do support most of the issues which were raised in that speech, especially the one dealing with devolution where the President stated that Kshs1.7 trillion has already been devolved to the counties to help in development. Most of the key functions which we have as a nation are devolved. The functions of water, agriculture and health services are devolved. Therefore, funds must follow these functions. It is unfortunate that we keep talking about the Kshs1.7 trillion to the counties ... view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: impression that there are many vested interests in the affordable housing programme. It is overemphasised but the thing is that it should not be done. view
• 25 Apr 2019 in National Assembly: I support the fight against corruption. We need to do it so that we can encourage investment in this country. However, it should not be selective. There is this belief that there is a certain clique which sits and decides who to go for and who should not be touched. There is a strong belief that there is a clique somewhere which decides who will be targeted. The BBI is quite welcome and it has united the country. The President said that Kshs10billion was allocated to the BBI. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to support this Report although I believe that in its current form, it is disabled because of the action of excluding certain sections. Even though it was a decision of the House, I believe that freedom of expression should have been part of the Report to make it flow nicely. All the same, we have to go by the ruling of the Speaker. 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
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Among the recommendations contained in the Report is the Kshs4.3 billion contract that was signed without a performance guarantee. I would have wished that Report should have gone ahead to clearly state the consequences of failure to have the performance guarantee so that it can be understood in a simpler manner. But since it is not there I believe it is important to provide for it so that we have all the information that is required. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: There is a recommendation on recovery of funds which were paid, but no services were rendered. Currently, we have many challenges which require funding. There is no way we can allow people to be paid for no services rendered. I support the recommendation by the Committee that the funds need to be recovered. I urge the relevant authorities to follow it up and make the recovery. view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, there is the issue of verification of pending bills. The Report is so voluminous, but I have perused through it. I have not seen the figures. Those figures are not captured in the recommendations section. I would have wished that the figures of the pending bills were stated in the recommendation. As a mathematics teacher I love figures. When I see them, I am able to raise questions and verify them. Even in committees, those are my key issues. While others talk generally and move on, I normally want to see figures as I did today ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: On the issue of failure by the Commission to exercise oversight over the Secretariat, I believe we need to strengthen the Commission by replacing the commissioners who left. I believe that is the only way to strengthen it. We are now all in the Government; there are no longer Opposition and Government sides. Issues of electoral reforms, which used to be championed by the National Super Alliance (NASA), are a forgotten story at the moment. I believe this institution needs to be strengthened by ensuring that more commissioners are appointed. I do not have many issues on the current structure ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I am also happy with the section where the Committee dealt with issues of supplies to the Commission. The average price of an item in retail market should be considered. I believe all Government institution need to consider this. A simple pen costs Kshs15 in a supermarket but when it goes through the tendering process its price jumps to Ksh150. Surely, when we deal with issues of supplies, we must have a category where we state the tender price and the retail price so that it is simple to understand. There is real looting in Government. I talked with a ... view
• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: so is supplying this and the average supermarket price is this, to ensure that the public gets value for money. view