Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 771 to 780 of 1925.

• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: and development; and offering goods and services. Therefore, if their pension programme is not clearly defined and set out in accordance with the County Governments Act and other Acts in place, it is then going to be very difficult to manage these. If they are not already remitting the statutory deductions, how else are they going to promote the other funds? view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: What risks are we looking at, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir? I have already talked about the manual collection of funds, which we should look at when we will be looking at the respective counties. There is also imprest management, which is not accounted for at the end of the financial year and it rolls off into the other year. We have recommended that there must be a serious surcharge on anybody, and it must be an individual surcharge. What we have noted in some of these reports is that some of them are being given multiple imprests, and some are ... view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Then, of course, the one thing that I think the Chair may have forgotten to mention, is the question of car loans funds which are unaccounted for. This is a fund which is not audited, and if it is audited, then those resources are not properly accounted for. This is something that we need to look at. view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when we looked at the Baringo County, for instance, there was under-collection of revenue, weak human resource controls, lack of an interface between the Integrated Payroll and Payroll (IPPD), G-Pay and the Local Authority Integrated Financial Management System (LAIFOM). I have also mentioned about Busia. We also looked at various--- view
• 22 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to second. view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Speaker. For purposes of the record of this House, I would like to know the meaning of the work ‘hustler’ from a standard dictionary because I have a feeling we may be applying the word “hustler” which has a completely different connotation. Are we in order as a House to be referring to either side of the individual as hustler when we are not sure and clear about the meaning of the word hustler? view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to what I consider one of the most important Bills before this House. The Protection of Street Vendors Livelihood Bill 2019, deals with the plight of the street vendors. I had the privilege of being the Minister of Technical Training and Applied Technology in 1988. One of the issues we needed to resolve immediately, was Juakali artisans. They were spread all over the place and were doing things in a disorganized manner. The word ‘ Juakali’ was at that time considered very demeaning. If you called somebody a ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: our youths earn a decent living. So long as the people are educated on the value of the rule of law, then they can survive in a competitive environment without being harassed. Madam Temporary Speaker, we now have fires razing down some of these establishments. It is a pity that these fires are completely razing all the investments that someone has worked on for years on end. It is just razed to the ground without any recourse to any way of recapturing or getting compensation. I support this Bill because its spirit envisages reorganization of these people into a functional ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, that is why I keep on insisting that one of the things that must be done in any county, including Kisii County, we must learn to do geospatial planning for every town, headquarters of counties and urban centres. We must do spatial planning to cater for the zones of these informal trading centres. We need to protect them because they do not have enough resources to invest in heavy capital investment activities. We want them to survive on their little daily earnings because that is what they know best and provide comparable qualities. For this to be ... view
• 2 Oct 2019 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, I am being warned without the amber light. 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