Stephen Kipyego Sang

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1971 to 1980 of 2013.

• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that was raised is the challenge of transfer of functions. We know that the Transition Authority (TA) was given the responsibility of overseeing and facilitating the transfer of functions. One of the challenges that came from the county executive is the fact that they are ready to carry out the 14 functions, as stipulated within the Constitution, but the TA identified the functions and transferred some of them. This is a task that now rests with the Senate. We know that the Constitution and law indicates that once the functions have been transferred to ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the issue of land was raised in Mombasa. Within Mombasa County, we know that the Jubilee Government is in the process of issuing title deeds. By the time we went to Mombasa, the process had not started. But the county executive raised the issue, that whereas the national Government is undertaking this process of issuance of title deeds, it is important that they be able to negotiate, discuss and consult the county governments. This is because the issuance of title deeds has an impact in terms of land usage and processes that need to be undertaken by ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: with the governor and the leadership of Mombasa County. This is an issue that they raised then, but the national Government was able to handle it. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that was raised by the county executive relates to staffing. This is one of the challenges that we are facing in our counties. This is a problem that Nairobi County faced the other day, where the county governments are inheriting a bloated workforce within our counties. It is important that we carry out an audit of the staff and the county governments be given the opportunity to absorb the staff that they need. If we have some staff members that were recruited by the local authorities in the previous dispensation and the county governments ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to look at the issues that were raised within the Kilifi County Government. I will start with the issues that the county executive raised. Some of them quite well mirror those that were raised in Mombasa, in terms of bloated staff and functions that they feel they are ready to undertake, but the TA did not transfer those functions. The County Government of Kilifi has a budget deficit. This is one of the challenges that all our counties face. We need to look at some of these budget deficits, so that in the next financial ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue that was raised relates to the workforce that they inherited from the defunct local government, which is similar to the issues raised by the Mombasa County government. The issues are similar in the County Assembly of Kilifi. This mirrors the issues that all the county assemblies in this country face. There are issues of remuneration, capacity and undertaking their oversight role within their county governments. Therefore, as a Committee or the two joint Committees of Devolved Government and Legal Affairs and Human Rights, we have various recommendations that we want to ask this House ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, the other issue is that the House needs to invite the TA to update it on how far the process of auditing of assets of liabilities has gone. We also recommend that with regard to staffing at the county governments, before payment of salaries on behalf of county governments is done, they should be given a list of all the staff that the national Government is paying salaries. We have a situation where a lot of resources belonging to county governments are being paid to ghost workers. This is unacceptable. We need the county governments to have ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Government has put on the payroll with regard to each of the 47 counties, so that they can be verified to ensure that no ghost workers are being paid using the resources that county governments would have used in other development projects. view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also recommend that in order to address the budget deficits, counties should consider public/private partnership models in terms of raising more revenue. The county governments need to be told that, at the end of the day, they need to look at the resources coming from the national Government as start-up. They need to invest more in their capacity to collect and generate local revenue to enable them to run their operations at the county level. Otherwise, if we have county governments relying on the revenue allocated to them from the national Government, then we are going ... view
• 16 Oct 2013 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, we also recommend that the settlement of squatters is necessary within the region. This is a region that has a lot of issues with regard to squatters. But it is important that the national Government, in the process of issuing title deeds, consults the county governments, to be able to address the issues of land use. This will help county governments in terms of planning. view