Sifuna Edwin Watenya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 371 to 380 of 1870.

• 25 Sep 2024 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 Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to oppose the proposal to review the division of revenue, the amount of money that this House allocated to county governments from the Kshs415 billion that we passed to Kshs380 billion. I was listening to my brother, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, praising his Governor for paying pending bills of Kshs771 million. However, I was wondering whether he had seen that report he has mentioned it. That Kakamega County spent Kshs521 million on buying tea and mandazi for Fernandes Barasa and his friends. These are the governors who create justification for why the Government ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Where is the Governor of Bungoma now? Is he not depending on the Senator for Bungoma to make these arguments? Some of these governors make our lives very difficult. I remember when this matter was before the committee and I have never seen such a high attendance of governors before this House. All of them were here because it was a question discussing the revenue going to counties. They make it difficult for this Senate to make these arguments. We make these arguments not because we like our governors, but because we swore to defend devolution. I understand the money ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: It is on record that last year, even after the Commission on Revenue Allocation had proposed that we, in this Senate, give counties Kshs415 billion, we only gave Kshs385 billion for the last financial year. This Bill proposes a figure of Kshs380 billion, which is Kshs5 billion less than the amount sent to the counties last year. As the Democrats in the U.S. are now saying, we are not going back. We must push this journey of devolution forward. We cannot go back to Kshs380 billion because to do so. Next year, we will give them Kshs370 billion to counties ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: revenue. Unfortunately, although that programme is expressed to cost nearly Kshs1.8 billion, it is sufficient to serve 30 per cent of the children of Nairobi, leaving a whopping 70 per cent of the children of Nairobi outside that programme. Now, the promise by the governor is that he plans to expand it so that it can feed all the children of Nairobi by extending it to the so-called up-bed schools, informal schools that carry the majority of the school-going children in Nairobi. We need money. In Nairobi, we need money. I know Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has praised my governor for ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, my view is that, as a Senate, we should always try to fight to push the envelope for the basket of devolution, that any attempts to reduce that amount are something that is to be resisted here on the Floor of the Senate. I understand all the discussions that we had. Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale has spoken about some of them, including the bad manners we see from the county governors. I pray that this Senate does not take out the bad manners of governors on the public themselves, the women who sell njugu at Khayega, Omwami, ... view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: This is because he did not want to read a document that was incriminating. So, the same vigour that we fight for these resources, we must be there as Senators to protect those The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: resources when they get to our county governments and ensure that they benefit the people of the counties that we represent. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: With those few remarks, I say categorically that I do not think that there is enough justification for this deduction beyond what was allocated last year. I would wish that every time we get an opportunity to vote for monies for the counties, we increase instead of decreasing. view
• 24 Sep 2024 in Senate: I thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. view