Ronald Kiprotich Tonui

All parliamentary appearances

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• 12 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to address this issue. I come from a teaching background and have been a principal, having served for more than eight years. There is something which we are also failing to address. That is on how schools arrive on the issue of school fees structure. It is normally done by the schools and then taken to the Parents Teachers Associations (PTAs) to approve. Then it goes to the Board of Governors (BOG) and currently, the County Education Board. The greatest challenge to those exorbitant school fees structures are the ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Motion. From the outset, I want to apologise to the PAC for having referred to them previously as being lazy for having not delivered this report to the House previously. I apologised then. This is because I was waiting for this report. They have proved that they are working very hard and have delivered three reports at once for three financial years. We must commend them for the hard work that they have put in to bring these reports. From the executive brief, they have done a ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I am saddened also by the Ministry of State for Provincial Administration and Internal Security previously. I think that was its title before. It was not able to account for huge sums of money up to the tune of Kshs2.8 billion. I think the Accounting Officer who is the current Principal Secretary needs to be prosecuted over the issue. He also needs to be dropped from that position. Retaining people who are not accounting for funds beats logic. We cannot understand why they still retain their positions even with the Auditor-General’s Report. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: From the same Ministry, we can see that they are using lots of cash on a daily basis up to the tune of Kshs30 million. I wonder what is paid through cash on daily basis to the tune of Kshs30 million. I believe the Government should be dealing with Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or cheques but to be using cash money on a daily basis to the tune of Kshs30 million, I believe there is something which is suspicious within this Ministry, which needs to be investigated. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I am happy that the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) Report by the Auditor- General is quite good. These are funds which are helping our people. They are the most transparent funds on the ground. I can see from the Executive brief by the Chair that only three constituencies had some audit queries. There were Mutito, Tigania East and Chepalungu. 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
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Chepalungu happens to lie within my county and the previous Member of Parliament of that constituency during that time is my current Governor. This Report recommends that; “The Accounting Officer should take disciplinary action against the CDFC and the Fund Manager for their actions as pointed out by the Auditor General.” This is a situation where I understand that some projects were funded but they do not even exist on the ground and action needs to be taken on this. I know some of these officers are being misused but the real culprits are not being captured in the Report. ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: There is the issue of poor performance in the State Law Office where they are losing cases. I believe it is due to collusion between the lawyers in that department, litigants and the others in order for them to benefit. The idea that they are not defending the Government quite well in court occasioning the Government to be losing funds is something to worry about. This needs to be addressed and those non-performers should be retired from that department and even be surcharged for the funds which have been misappropriated. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: I can also see from this Report that we have a very huge expenditure which is unsupported, up to the tune of Kshs33 million. When we talk of unsupported expenditure, it means that there is money which has gone out of the Government without receipts. Certainly, when you pay for something, you must get a receipt. The fact that there is no receipt for this amount shows that it was looted. It did not go anywhere else because I cannot understand how a real accountant can part with money without a receipt. So, this needs to be acted on. Those ... view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Another institution which I can see from this Report is the Commission for the Implementation of the Constitution (CIOC) which is headed by one, Nyachae. He is normally very loud mouthed. I thought he was so perfect in this Commission but it looks like he is also acting illegally when he is spending public funds. I believe this also needs to be followed up. view
• 10 Dec 2014 in National Assembly: Those are some of the major issues which are in this Report. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is also captured and I believe it is related to the “chicken” issue. I believe this also needs to be addressed so that we have an IEBC which has integrity and is respected. Those who may have been involved in this “chicken” saga need to be taken care of by the right institution. Otherwise, the Government needs to follow up on this Report. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) needs to come in to prosecute some of these offenders and looters ... view