Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 361 to 370 of 1925.

• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, that is tremendous work that has been put in by various elements of people who were involved in this exercise. This included the Committee, the secretariat and those who discussed the report at the end of the day. view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: This now puts the total number of pages you can peruse through to 3,100 pages. You can also peruse through your own county and see how they have performed. This is a commendable job. I would like to make general observations that we picked out, which cut through the county executives and were part of the fiduciary risks contained in this Report. They are as follows: (1) Flagrant non-compliance to relevant laws. (2) Lack of remittance of statutory deductions. (3) Pending Bills. (4) Intergovernmental debts; national Government vis-à-vis the county governments and county Government vis-à-vis National Government. (5) Irregular procurement ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: (11) Weak internal control systems. (12) Lack of assets and liabilities register. (13) Weak human resource management. (14) Irregular public participation payments. (15) Over expenditure or under expenditure of funds. (16) Poor budgeting and weak budget performance control. (17) Poor book keeping and record keeping. (18) Lack of established audit committees. (19) Failure to submit documents for audit to the Auditor-General. (20) Outstanding imprest. (21) Irregular funding of National Government functions by county governments. (22) Delayed release of equitable share to county governments. (23) Lack of inter-operability of technology systems in use such as IFMIS. (24) IFMIS challenges that I ... view
• 24 Feb 2021 in Senate: performance reports of county governments. That way, we will be able to keep pace with the account of money being allocated to county governments now. There are huge resources from a very low level to now a level which is going to be Kshs370 billion to county governments. This money cannot go unnoticed; it can only be oversighted when we are current with our books of account. Madam Temporary Speaker, I beg to move. Since the Vice-Chairperson of the Committee, Sen. (Eng.) Hargura, is here, I will ask him to second this Motion. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to reply to this debate. Basically, on the issue of counties that have been presented before this Committee, they have all been mentioned in the Order Paper, Volumes (i), (ii) and (iii). They are in total about 15 counties. I may add at this stage that we have been able prosecute 45 counties. The remaining counties that we were not able to prosecute were because there was one or two projects that we needed to go and check. One of them is Kajiado County and another county. Madam Temporary Speaker, ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: There were two counties; that is Kajiado and Trans Nzoia with two or three verifications we wanted to do in the field before completing that report. That would have made a total of about 3,200 pages of the report that would have come before this Senate. I seriously recommend that every Senator should look at their own county and see what kinds of recommendations have been made as part of their follow up and oversight of responsibility. This is so that they can help this House to track some of the issues that have been raised, fundamentally dealt with and ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Accompanying this poor record-keeping is the fraudulent practices where they were trying to cover their tracks in doing certain illegal actions. We have recommended punitive measures. The EACC should go further into some of those elements to uncover the extent of that fraud so that it can be brought to book and dealt with firmly. You cannot receive money and not be able to account for it. You cannot receive money without proper record keeping and an element of accountability and governance. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: We are not asking for too much or intimidating anybody, but simply they should perform their responsibilities. We also perform ours of over sighting. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: There is also non-compliance with the laws and procedures and failure to recruit qualified personnel to run some of the elements that we have written here. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: For those who may not have read this report, we have done an executive summary. It has 25 cogent points that you can look at and be able to make cross- referencing with your county. In passing, reference has been made to some of them. One of them is lack of remittance of statutory deductions which distorts their accounting The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view