Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to the Presidential Speech, which was well delivered. I watched it although I was outside the country. It was a very strong Speech. The President scored a clean A and, more so, in relation to the content of the Speech. view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I was happy to learn of the new developments in the country. I learnt that we are the third fastest growing economy in the whole world just behind China and Philippines. That is a good direction that we have taken to ensure that we create employment opportunities for our youth. This is the biggest challenge that we are facing as a country. I was also very happy to note that inflation is currently being contained within a single digit. This will make the lives of ordinary Kenyans a little bit easier. The drop in the prices of petroleum products needs ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The President captured the issue of education in his Speech very well. We have enhanced free primary education funds and the free day secondary education funds. That needs to be appreciated. We also need to encourage the Government to allocate more resources to education to ensure that we have quality education in terms of adequate number of teachers in our schools. We have established many schools through the CDF but, unfortunately, they are poorly staffed. Those teachers also need to be highly motivated, so that they can give quality education to our children. view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: There is the issue of corruption, which was the core issue of the Speech that was well delivered. From this Report, my county is well captured as being among the top most corrupt counties in Kenya. view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: We are among the top most corrupt counties in Kenya. My Governor is captured having looted quite a lot. That can be seen even from the change of his lifestyle. Immediately after the elections, he used to contribute about Kshs10,000 in fundraisings. All of a sudden, he is contributing Kshs500,000! It can be seen from this Report that, that man has been accumulating a lot of resources from the county. There are many things. The allegations of misappropriating Kshs300 million, Kshs400 million, Kshs33 million and the allegations of single-sourcing are just a few of the scandals. We know of many ... view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The EACC also needs to capture the issue of Kshs10 million for the disabled. The money was provided for in the budget of the county government. But it subsequently disappeared into thin air. A sum of Kshs340 million was set aside for the establishment of nursery schools. There are no nursery schools and no classroom has ever been constructed in Bomet County. They re-brand projects like dispensaries, which have been undertaken using the CDF kitty, and indicate that they are county projects. These issues need to be taken care of. view
• 31 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: The issue of bouncing cheques also needs to be included in the list of EACC. I believe we will supply more details to the EACC so that they can have a very strong case. For the first time in history, we have a--- view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Deputy Speaker. I had dealt with most of the issues which I had wanted to address in this Bill. I had expressed support for this Bill because I believe it is going to refine various activities which are going on in various sections of both the national and county governments. This Bill is very important to us as a Parliament. It is the Office of the Auditor- General which assists us to deal with issues of oversight. view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: This Bill is very important to us in relation to our role of oversight, which we play as a House. We need to get detailed information from the Executive on how it is using Kenyan taxpayers’ money. That is why the Office of the Auditor-General needs to be empowered by law and financially to ensure that we get that information. This Bill is also critical in ensuring that the public do get access to information on how their money is used or misused by the relevant organs of the State. The Office of the Auditor-General is also critical when it ... view
• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Clause 12 of this Bill provides that somebody can act as an Auditor- General if the occupant of that office is not able to execute the functions of that office. This is a welcome creation by this Bill because there should be no vacuum in that office. It should work all through. I am also happy that there is a new position created of Senior Deputy Auditor- General who will be in charge of administration and accounting. This will be the accounting officer of the Auditor-General’s Office. I believe that the issue of conflict of interest arises where the Auditor-General ... view