Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 391 to 400 of 1925.

• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I can go on and on. One other element, I need to talk about is that some of them opened many commercial accounts. We know the Public Finance Management Act stipulates that every single source account of money must be swapped into County Revenue Fund (CRF) account. Anything outside that Fund would be illegal unless they have set up special funds, which must be by legislation by their respective county assemblies, and they will be audited as separate funds for the purposes of auditing. Any expenditure outside that framework would be illegal. This is another area that ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: An element that relates to non-availability of resources is the uncollected land rates and rent on properties. When you take this element and the assets and liabilities of the county governments, it forms a very huge portfolio. Looking at the rentable houses available, if they were to do the land valuation, the roll valuation and be able to put it in place, it can generate a lot of revenue to the counties. There is also the own-source revenue which Sen. Kibiru talked about at length. We should be able to get so much money to county governments. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, some counties like Nairobi City County have the capacity to collect a lot of money, in fact, equivalent to the shareable revenue and that should make a big difference in any given county. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: As for the far-flung remote counties, one of the things that we need to look at is how they are evaluating their properties like land. Have they been properly registered? Many pieces of land have been lost to fraudulent speculators or middlemen who tell you they have a title deed for a certain piece of land. Eventually, they sell somebody‟s plot or allocation without the knowledge of the actual recipient. Those are the fraudulent types we were talking about. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Incomplete and non-utilized projects also came up. These are projects that are started and not completed on time or not realised on time. Therefore, value for money is not realised. This is a major element that they have been budgeted for or some of them have been short-circuited to come into the budget without having a proper supplementary budget. Therefore, money is lost. That is why we found heavy leakage of resources through this level. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I also need to talk about the weak internal controls, particularly policies to guide the operations of county activities. We have made a very stringent recommendation that the Government should develop establishment policies, which is lacking in some of these areas. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: There is, of course, irregular public participation on payments when they have monotype of public participation. You will see the same people moving from point A, B, C up to Z. The reason for moving so is because they want to get money. It is one way of not incorporating the actual people who need to give an opinion, particularly on a service that is being offered to them. I think we need to tighten up that one. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: I have already mentioned about failure to submit documents for audit to the Auditor-General and irregular funding of national Government functions by county governments. Some particularly in arid and semi-arid areas have said they are forced to spend money on national Government projects because that is the only way they can bring their populations into focus. However, if the money has been budgeted for at the national level, I think they should chase that envelope from the national level to accomplish whatever task was supposed to be accomplished thorough that budgetary provision. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report ... view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: If they have to budget any additional resources, they should do so in accordance with Schedule Four of the Constitution, which has already allocated the type of functions that the county government must perform. view
• 23 Feb 2021 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, I can go on and on. One other element, I need to talk about is that some of them opened many commercial accounts. We know the Public Finance Management Act stipulates that every single source account of money must be swapped into County Revenue Fund (CRF) account. Anything outside that Fund would be illegal unless they have set up special funds, which must be by legislation by their respective county assemblies, and they will be audited as separate funds for the purposes of auditing. Any expenditure outside that framework would be illegal. This is another area that ... view