Samuel Kiprono Chepkonga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, it is important that you listen to me. You, better listen to me. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Now, Standing Order No.180, I am on a point of order. It says: “Subject to the provisions of these Standing Orders and the directions of the committee, a chairperson of a committee shall- (b) perform the functions and exercise the powers assigned to the office of the Chairperson by the committee, resolutions of the Assembly or legislation.” He has said that in consultation with the Chair of the Committee of Finance, Planning and Trade, this particular amendment is here in an unprocedural manner, and, therefore, he has withdrawn it. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, hon. Mbadi will remember that last year, during the Finance Bill, an amendment was brought to exempt loans from Government to Government from the provisions of the Public Procurement Act. The problem that occurred is that there was no definition of what “government to government loan” is. In 2012, the Belgium Government gave the Kenya Government a loan that was negotiated by the former Prime Minister for water to be taken from my constituency to Iten Township. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Forget about that. That is beside the point. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Junet! He knows--- view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: He knows he has a lot of--- view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, you know that hon. Junet has--- The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 27 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temprorary Deputy Chairman, that loan could not be dispersed because part of the loan was being given by Exim Bank, which is owned by the Belgium Government. In the interpretation, it is not indicated what “government to government loan is”, but this particular interpretation, which is purely an interpretation, in Section 2 of the PFM Act, states what “government to government loan” is. This includes negotiated loans between governments. This is purely government to government. view
• 26 Aug 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, as you know, when this Bill was first referred to the Committee for pre-publication scrutiny, we considered it; in fact, we rejected it. Thereafter, it was published and it never came back to our Committee. If it had come back to our Committee, we would then have invited the public to give us memoranda. We would have heard the views of the public and known what they thought about the Bill. As it is right now, we have no idea about it. view