Stephen Kipyego Sang

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1961 to 1970 of 2013.

• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: nominate one person to represent county governments in the SRC. If yes, whether we can get progress from that particular representative on how far he has gone and what he is doing in terms of looking at the interest of officers serving within the county governments. If not, the Senate can make corrective measures to make sure that we have representation of county governments’ interest in that Commission. I am seeking your guidance. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: seconded view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:- THAT, the Senate adopts the Report of the Sessional Committee on Devolved Government and the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights on the joint county visits to Mombasa and Kilifi Counties, laid on the Table of the House on Thursday, 10th October, 2013. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, this is a report of the joint committee between the Sessional Committee on Devolved Government and the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights. The two committees carried out county visits and the purpose of the visit was to enable members of the two committees to have an opportunity to visit the counties and discuss a number of issues that had been raised within the various counties. The issues and the areas that were discussed during the visit included:- The devolution process and transfer of functions – you remember that we have had challenges and discussions ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the Committee visited two counties. In the County of Mombasa, I want to highlight a number of issues that we came across. In each of the two counties that we visited, we had an opportunity to engage with the county executive, assemblies and members of the public within the two counties. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to start by highlighting a number of issues that we encountered within the County of Mombasa. During our visit to the County Assembly of Mombasa, we met with the Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) and they raised a number of issues that I want to highlight. One of the major challenges that were raised by the MCAs is remuneration. This is something that we have discussed in this House before. It is an issue that is almost crippling the operations of county assemblies. It is important that this House, based on even the discussions ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Nandi have the same challenge in terms of processing Bills within our county assemblies. It is important that the county assembly service boards are able to recruit competent personnel to help our MCAs to proceed with their legislative mandate. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that was raised within the Mombasa County Assembly was the challenge of lack of adequate staff. The county assembly also does not have office space for the MCAs to operate from. Most of them are meeting their electorate and business people in hotels. This is something that needs to be addressed. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that was raised within the Mombasa County Assembly is the fact that whereas the county assemblies are expected to play an oversight role over county governments, they are not getting information from the county executive. This is also something that we need to look at. The county executive at the county level need to know that for the MCAs to do their jobs responsibly, they need to get and access information. They are expected to process the county budgets. However, most of them did not have adequate time to scrutinize their budgets. These are ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, several issues were raised by the governor, deputy governor and some county executive committee members of the Mombasa County. One of the issues that were raised by the county executive is that there is need to carry out a detailed audit on the debts, assets and liabilities of the local authorities that they inherited. We do not want to burden the county executive with debts that were not accrued by them. This is something that this House, on several occasions, has discussed in terms of the Motions that we have passed. view