Prof. Sam Ongeri

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 811 to 820 of 1925.

• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: not projects have been done. They can bring it to our attention, so that we make appropriate recommendations. I have noticed that my county will get more than Kshs7.78 billion of equitable revenue, and that is a good share of money. We have a problem on conditional grants. Some of these funds cannot be audited because we do not know how they are disbursed by the National Treasury. We only accept a report placed in our hands. This Senate must come up with a framework on how to do monitoring and evaluation of conditional grants. They are increasing in figures ... view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: Finally, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are some functions that have been assigned to the county governments, which are being performed by the national Government. That is why the resources are being hidden in the national Government. For instance, in health, 88 per cent of resources are at the national level when they should be at the county level. Health and agriculture are fully devolved functions. 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
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: On the village polytechnics, I do not know how this money is being utilized, because that forms the basis of bequeathing schemes to our young people, so that they can be techno savvy. If we do not make a deliberate decision and policy to bequeath them, we will continue lamenting about unemployment in the county all the time. We need to empower these young people to be techno savvy, so that they can also go for self- employment, rather than seeking for white collar jobs. view
• 25 Sep 2019 in Senate: With those few remarks, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support this disbursement Schedule. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a House of record. In the language of mediation, there are always two opposite views of issues. I remember Sen. Wetangula, Sen. Orengo, the late Sen. Mutula Kilonzo Snr. and I were in the mediation team in Serena. There were two completely divergent sides of a problem. When the mediation was done, we agreed on the script that we would roll out as the outcome of that mediation process which begot the 2010 Constitution. view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: I remember very well that the most cardinal rules in the Constitution 2010 were the rule of law and impunity. The two cardinal rules were addressed by the Constitution of 2010. We have had an issue in the Senate about the Division of Revenue Bill. We could not agree on the Division of Revenue Bill between ourselves and the National Assembly. The Bill was therefore referred to mediation. However, before the outcome of the mediation was known, there is already an assent to the Appropriation Bill by the President. It is now an Appropriation Act. It is an action of ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: the issue being canvassed in court is whether the Appropriation Act that was signed was legal on unconstitutional. Our contention is that it was unconstitutional and that is our basis. I must vent my views. What bothers me is that after the mediation, somebody went and changed the script of the product of mediation to read something else other than what had been agreed upon. If that is the case, I do not see why we should sit here to discuss the County Allocation of Revenue Bill. If that is what happened, it is itself a very dangerous precedence that ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: Yes, indeed. I confirm I was a member of that ad hoc Committee. We addressed this issue of tea farmers plight extensively and particularly as it relates to the role of KTDA in managing the small scale growers of tea. Through the process of gathering information and being able to write the full report, it came to our attention that there are more than 42 taxes that are being levied on a poor small scale farmer as a tea grower. Therefore, they are just there for mere subsistence and can hardly be able to make their ends meet. I will ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. On matters of principle, the Constitution spells out 15 per cent of the most recent audited accounts. That is the area we must amend. This is because it should be based on the annual budget rather than on the last audited accounts. If we have anything to go by, that is the first assault we must make. On the second assault, let us look at the PFM and operational Act and be able to realign it with the mother constitutional Clause 203(3). That is the first approach as the Senate that we must do ... view
• 17 Sep 2019 in Senate: Fourthly, the issue of pending bills must be dispensed with because it is a rolling stock, and they have found a way of riding on it. Sen. M. Kajwang‘ will tell you that in the CPAIC, when we were looking at the last audited accounts by the Auditor-General, counties increased their pending bills beyond what they had submitted in their financial statements. We must be very wary on how they are treating this matter. With those few remarks, I support. view