Stephen Tarus

All parliamentary appearances

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• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Question is directed to the Office of the President, but touching on the Kenya Army which falls under the Ministry of State for Defence. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I apologise for that incident. But the Question asked by the hon. Member touches on issues about the police and the army, which fall under the Ministry of Defence. The answer we have is the same. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. There are no steps being taken to have recruitment to take place in Garba-Tulla as long as it is a sub-district. Recruitment should only take place at district headquarters. view
• 28 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, not much may change now, unless we give consideration to what the hon. Member is requesting to conduct recruitment in areas where he suggested. view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr.Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg the indulgence of the House for this Question to be deferred until Thursday next week. I have perused through the facts obtained from the ground and the answer we had prepared is inadequate. I request the House to allow me answer this Question on Thursday next week. view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, last week, you deferred the Question because the hon. Member wanted to peruse through the copy of the written answer. After extensive consultations and receiving the facts from the ground, I felt that we be given additional time so that the hon. Member can be satisfied with the answer that the Ministry will give. We have received all the facts, but we could not make the answer ready by today. This is because we received some of the facts today. view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to reply. (a) I am aware that the LATF, which is also commonly known as LASDAP, funds are controlled and disbursed at the Ministry headquarters. (b) Indeed, the Minister for Local Government approves all local authorities' annual budgets. In most of those budgets, the Minister ensures that LASDAP projects are factored in the budget. (c) The amount disbursed to the two councils for the last four years is as follows:- view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, part "a" of the Question partly answers part "b". The Ministry of Local Government is administering LATF under an Act of Parliament. Unless we change it we cannot do otherwise. The hon. Member has said that projects being funded by LATF cannot be seen on the ground. This is the very reason why those funds should be managed from the Ministry. It does not seem to satisfy what the hon. Member is asking us to do. The funds have November 2, 2006 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 3367 already gone to the ground. The funds are not available and ... view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, indeed, what the hon. Member has said is concerned with what we should do. Olkejuado is not the only council where we are receiving complaints with regard to implementation or utilisation of those funds. In the next few weeks, we shall ask each local authority to submit projects funded through LATF. We will ask for a list of all projects which have been completed and those which have not been completed for purposes of ensuring that we account for the money that has been disbursed to each local authority. view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are supposed to audit all the projects. We have had one problem with each local authority, which is that most of them do not have adequate staff. This is an issue that needs to be addressed urgently for the reason that there is a lot of work to be done regarding most of the projects that we have funded. view
• 2 Nov 2006 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, these answers that we give emanate from the local authorities. If, in any instance, we have been given contrary information to what the hon. Member has been given, then this borders on indiscipline and we will take some action for any discrepancy, where the same local authority has given this House information which is inappropriate. view