Simon Lesirma

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I do not know whether our Standing Orders allow me to repeat this again. This is because we have gone through the issue of criteria before. I do not know whether a question that has been answered before should be answered again. Although I risk breaching the Standing Orders, let me say that prioritization was based on various factors. We had to get information from the Provincial Commissioners on the newly created districts that really needed immediate attention. Land had also to be available and an agreement on where the headquarters should be located. If there ... view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is a very big challenge to all of us because you do realize that it is the leaders, on request by their people who pressurize the Government to create these districts. There are so many districts and, obviously, there will be challenges because we have to take care of the district headquarters first and then the divisions. But we want to encourage that you support us to get more resources from the Treasury to enable the various divisions to be operational. But it is true, indeed, that we do have those challenges, but we are ... view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will undertake to find out why the District Commissioner is not available. I do know that we also had challenges in terms of shortage of personnel and a number of districts did not have district commissioners. Some have acting district officers I, but I undertake to find out what is happening with Wajir, so that we take action immediately. view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I did mention, with regret, that I left some documentation in my office which contained the details of how much money was given for construction in those districts. I am not very clear what the intention of the hon. Member is in saying that I have to give all the details. I would have thought that he would be more concerned about his own district to begin with and thereafter, the rest of the country at large. But I must give credit to hon. ole Lankas because through the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF), he has constructed ... view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, can I undertake to come with the details of the financial allocations over the last five years, because I forgot it on my desk as I was coming? view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, with regard to the operationalisation of the DCIs, indeed since 2009, over the last one year, we have been able to create 42 OCPDs. We now have 130 OCPDs and I think that is the progress that has been made over the last one year and we will continue to increase the number of OCPDs. view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I will take less than two minutes. Mr. Ethuro rose on a point of order to request for a Ministerial Statement with regard to chiefs being invited to Nairobi to be re-interviewed and yet they have been interviewed before. I have checked with my officers and none is aware of this exercise. So, I wish to confirm that the arrangement for interviewing chiefs remains as before. We interview chiefs at the district level, forward names to the Provincial Commissioners who vet three names and forward them to the Permanent Secretary who picks the qualified candidate. We ... view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am rather disturbed by the statements made by hon. Ethuro because the same officer he is talking about, I have spoken to her three times today; even five minutes ago. I have asked Mrs. Rono: “Is it the case you are interviewing chiefs?” and she confirmed that it is not the case. But I do not want to spend time on this one. I think I need all the documentation because clearly it is irregular for chiefs to be interviewed in Nairobi. It is irregular for the Human Resources Department to re-interview chiefs. The best ... view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: On the question of delays, I must admit that there are delays because of this question of personal numbers, which I personally do not understand why we have to wait for personal numbers to come from another Ministry – the Ministry of Public Service. view
• 4 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: I give an undertaking and I want to thank hon. Ethuro for raising this issue because there just may be a case of people seeking economic rent in the process. So, can I have the documents? Thank you. view