Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 461 to 470 of 1925.

• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: This House will recall that the last Senate during the period 2013-2017 interrogated only 18 county assemblies on the audit report of Financial Year 2013/14 implying that 29 county assemblies have never been oversighted by the Senate since inception. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: It is also worth noting that all county assemblies have never been oversighted by the Senate on the audit reports for the financial years 2014/2015 and 2017/18. The The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Committee cannot rule out possibility of direct relationship between the lack of Senate oversight of county assemblies and adequate financial management in the county assemblies. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: It is for this reason that this Committee has utilized part of its tight schedule interrogating county assemblies in order to put them on their toes in undertaking proper financial management. view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: Consideration and preparation of reports: During the period under review, the Committee has considered and prepared reports which are currently in various stages as follows: - (i) Twenty Reports drafted, considered and awaiting adoption: Reports of twenty county executives for Financial Year 2014/2015; Twenty-four Reports drafted and considered by the Committee: for eight county executives for the three financial years 2015/16 - 2017/18; and, (ii) Eighty-one Reports drafted and awaiting Committee consideration for twenty-seven county executives for the three financial years 2015/16 - 2017/18. The challenge of operating under a very tight schedule of interrogations and the heavy backlog of ... view
• 24 Nov 2020 in Senate: (1) The Senate should review the Standing Order 219 and amend it to ensure that the work of a Sessional Committee continues uninterrupted until a time when a new Sessional Committee is established at the commencement of a new Session. The amendment is informed from the experience of Sessional Committees in this Session when the they were established on 4th May, 2020 as opposed to the commencement of the Session in February, 2020, thus wasting approximately three months. Mr. Speaker, Sir, I might hasten to say that there is a letter from two Sessional Committees before you for consideration. (2) ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to comment on the State of the Nation Address. The President was bang on point. Any sitting President must at all times be able to appraise Kenyans of any dangers or threats to the nation. One of the issues he picked as a threat to this nation is the COVID-19 pandemic. He could not have done better than that because the issue that is slowing us down. Whether we are talking of education, health, industrialization and manufacturing, the pandemic is one single element that is slowing done everything that we have achieved ... view
• 17 Nov 2020 in Senate: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in Senate: answer lies within us. We should not develop fatigue. As the President said, we should continue forward. view
• 17 Nov 2020 in Senate: Another area the President addressed very well is the question of we now deal with the economy which is sagging. Who are the propellers of this economy? This is the human capital. I think he addressed human capital. Unless we retrain and reorient our thinking in terms of how we want to generate the incomes for this country, it is going to a futile exercise. Hence the word which I liked so much that we should train our young people - these are some of our potential human capital - train them not to be earners of wages, but to ... view