Samuel Onunga Atandi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this Motion on Approval of Third Basis for Sharing of National Revenue Allocated to counties. I want to make a few remarks. 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
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I do not understand why the Commission on Revenue Allocation (CRA) decided to identify a few parameters to be used to determine the revenues that will be allocated to the counties, and yet there are many functions that have been devolved. I am saying this because if you go to counties, you will find that they restrict their functions to just a few areas. Most of them are preoccupied with constructing earth roads and Early Childhood Development Centres (ECD). They have largely ignored other important sectors such as agriculture and fishing, for instance in my county. When coming up with ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I disagree with one of the parameters which has been used to allocate resources here which is land mass. There is no difference between land mass and population. If you go to these counties that are expansive, you will realise that large populations are found within the towns but not in the deserted land mass areas. Therefore, if we will consider population as a parameter for allocation of resources, then we need to do away with land mass. I have not seen any county government that has land in place to access that large mass where nothing is going on. ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Lastly, there are other parameters such as blue economy. When you go to Nyanza region and the fishing areas, you find that those people who engage in fishing have so many challenges. When you talk to the county governments, they tell you that they do not have resources to address some of those challenges that those people experience. Therefore, I feel like the Senate or CRA need to go deeper and identify more other parameters that are instrumental in sharing these resources, so that we can have a situation where economic activity such as fishing which is substantially contributive to ... view
• 24 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you. I support the Motion. view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker. I rise to ask Question No.200/2020 directed to the Cabinet Secretary, the National Treasury and Planning. (i) Could the Cabinet Secretary explain the status of the emergency liquidity facility which was created following the collapse of Imperial Bank and Chase Bank to bail out banks facing liquidity challenges and confirm whether the facility is still in existence and how many banks have so far benefited from this facility? (ii) Could the Cabinet Secretary also report on the status of the forensic audit which was being conducted following the collapse of Imperial Bank? (iii) How was ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. I am of the view that having a youth to Chair the Council does not mean that, that council will be more effective. Remember, I have been a youth before and now an adult. Therefore, I am opposed to this idea that if somebody is a youth chairing an institution such as this, then it will serve the interest of the youth. We need to have somebody chairing it who is not a youth. I am saying that because imagine you are having the PS for the National Treasury and all these other senior ... view
• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairlady. 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
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This Petition is a very serious one and it is in the right place…. view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. This Petition is very serious and it is in the right place. In previous occasions, the Governor was captured physically uprooting tea plantations in Nandi. Most of us complained that, that direction was not the right one. He has done the right thing by tabling the petition here. I congratulate him for, at least, seeing the sense in working with Parliament to try to resolve this matter. view