Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1661 to 1670 of 1820.

• 22 Nov 2022 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, just one minute, it is the last point. The position of the Catholic Church, which Sen. Sifuna is a baptised and confirmed member, is that this food called GMO is a no-go zone for us as Catholics. I thank you. view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support the Bill just as many of my colleagues who have spoken before me have done. I was a bit surprised by some of the submissions that I heard from my senior brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, the Senator for Kakamega County. I do not know where he has disappeared to. I wanted to take him through how to understand what a Bill is supposed to do. At the very back page of the Bill, there is a Memorandum of Objects and Reasons. It sets out clearly that the principle object ... view
• 17 Nov 2022 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 2022 in Senate: raised by Sen. Olekina. The Supreme Court’s decision made it clear that we needed a separate instrument for us to transfer these conditional grants and loans. In fact, it states under Section 3 that the object is to facilitate the transfer for Conditional and Unconditional Allocations made to counties under this Act from the Consolidated Fund to the respective county Revenue Funds. The counties cannot wait a second for this money to be transferred because as you can see from the schedule it even incorporates money for two financial years. That means that many counties have put up with non-allocation ... view
• 17 Nov 2022 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 2022 in Senate: I am a believer in devolution and I believe that this Bill cannot wait for another day. The Bill has identified about 11 loans or grants from development partners and I am happy that my county, Nairobi City County, is one of the counties that enjoys a few of those grants. On page 66 of the Bill, you will see that Nairobi City County has been enjoying the grants from Denmark Development Cooperation (Danida) for primary health care in devolved context of about Kshs33 million. There is another one of Kshs11million from the World Bank Credit Financing for locally led ... view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: Lastly, let me talk about this First Schedule. This is the conditional allocation to county governments from national government revenue, in the FY2022/2023. It is specific to the grants in respect of the conditional grant for leasing of medical equipment. For this FY2022/2023, each of the counties is getting Kshs110,000,638 to pay for the leased medical equipment. view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: Although there are complaints from governors, some of which I support, they need to re-look at the entire equipment leasing scheme. They would want some input on some of these issues. Today, I met somebody who I met during the campaigns. She told me that she was supposed to take her child to Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) for a test to determine whether the child has sickle cell anaemia. view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: Would you know that in the entire Nairobi City County, there is only one machine at KNH that can do that particular test and it is a donation? The problem is that the person who donated this machine insists on being the one to supply the reagents. From May when I was campaigning to be the Senator until today, this woman who was referred to a private hospital, Nairobi Hospital, has not been able to take the test. She came to me and I could not believe the story. I called KNH and they confirmed having the machine and that ... view
• 17 Nov 2022 in Senate: I welcome this allocation. Perhaps there is consideration for depreciation. The Chairman of the Committee can shed light on why in the FY 2021/2022, the amount was higher than what is being allocated in the FY 2022/2023. I do not think we can procrastinate on this particular matter anymore. We need to move as a Senate to provide this mechanism, so that these resources can reach our counties. As the Senate, we will support this move so that we can clearly distinguish between these loans and grants and what is coming to the counties under the division of revenue. With ... view