Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 141 to 150 of 881.

• 28 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: The issue of reviewing the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act is very important. We need to re-look at it because currently, everything that goes through procurement is very expensive. I have seen the way classrooms are being constructed by the national Government and the county governments. When they go through the Public Procurement and Assets Disposal Act directly, they do it at a cost of Kshs2 million per classroom. When other institutions build it, they do so at Kshs1.5 million. When I do it by sending the money direct to the school board of management, the maximum they can ... view
• 27 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to add my voice. I want to support this Motion and commend, Hon. Murugara for bringing it. I believe it is very important because often, as we move around the village elders remind us to put this into consideration. Village elders are important people because they are listened to and respected by the community members. Therefore, they play a key role in influencing even the various opinions of the people on the ground, sensitising them on the various Government projects, programmes and services, including the stipend for the old, ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for the opportunity to also support this Motion. It is in public domain that Prof. Magoha is highly experienced right from the time he was the Vice-Chancellor of the UON where he performed. He is a performer. He is academically qualified and superior. I agree with him. The issue which needs to be addressed by the appointing authority is regional balance. To have a county with three CSs is quite awkward. We might need to redistribute those CSs so that we also have South Nyanza and Kakamega being represented. It is important to relook into that. ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to also comment on the Division of Revenue Bill which I do not agree with. I believe most of the key functions in the Constitution which are touching on the members of the public are devolved. Therefore, it is very important to devolve more funds to the counties so that people can be served at that level. I also want to state that I do not agree with what many of my colleagues have stated. They have said that counties are poorly overseen. I tend to believe that the ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: 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
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: important Bill, but you can count the number of Members seated here to follow up on this Bill. We have quite a number of Questions which we have raised. Personally, I have about six Questions, but they do not reach the Floor of this House. We just see about three or four Questions being raised here. Oversight in the national Government is very poor. The one at the county level is much better. In fact, the MCAs nearly understand each and every item in their Bill, whenever I interact with them. So, we should not entertain that misconception and those ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Coming back to the Division of Revenue Bill, I believe it is supposed to divide money between the national Government and the county governments. What we have here is a Division of Revenue Bill. I believe it should be called County Revenue Breakdown because you will hardly see the other side; the national Government. All we have is one side dealing with the counties. It is does not deal with the breakdown of the national Government. For instance, we have Kshs1.5 billion going to the national Government, and there is no breakdown. But in terms of the county government, there ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Going back to the details of this Bill, especially on the side of the counties, we have funds for the leasing of equipment, where Kshs6.2 billion has been allocated. I believe those were among the ill-conceived projects by the national Government. Possibly, this is part of the scam which needs to be investigated by DCI to establish how it was arrived at. When we approved this in the last Parliament, we were meant to understand that it was going to be a constant Kshs 95million per year, per county. It has now skyrocketed to Kshs200 million per county per annum. ... view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: Freedom of expression! view
• 20 Mar 2019 in National Assembly: I was referring to the mindset of that House Business Committee which thinks this House is just a rubber stamp. view