Wilberforce Ojiambo Oundo

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• 17 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: recommendations of the people when they present their views under the county integrated development plan? Each year the county government is required to prepare a county fiscal strategy paper that lays down the way projects are going to be done and the way of raising funds. I truly believe the drafter of the law just needed to find relevance where there is none. I truly believe probably he was egged on by MCAs to try and copy the NG-CDF yet the circumstances of the two are totally different. On that view, I know my time is up. I stand to ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, for this opportunity to contribute to this Bill. From the onset, I support the spirit of the Bill even though there are areas that require further considerations and amendments. Generally, in any jurisdiction, any local authority or any organ has two sources of revenue; transfers from the national Government and locally generated revenue. Before devolution, we had local authorities that for all purposes and intent used to collect adequate locally generated revenue to enable them undertake their various services and programs. Of course, it has always been a paradox, a cause of worry and source of ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for example, my county, Busia County in the Financial Year 2016/2017 only afforded to collect about Kshs256 million of locally generated revenue. That is what has been recorded in the books. In 2017/2018, they only collected Kshs276 million. In 2018/2019, the figure cannot even be reconciled because no one knows where all the revenue went to. It is, indeed, interesting and funny. Yes, there is no requirement that every taxpayer must get an equal amount of services. But honestly speaking, it beats all logic to expect a trader in Funyula Market, Sio Port Market and Ganga ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Going to the particular Bill, I totally agree that it is important for us to harmonise the revenue generating procedures and revenue collection. Devolution did not intent to dismember this country into 47 governments and one government to produce 48 governments. We need it harmonised so that we can avoid a case of double taxation and double payment of levies. view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Article 209 of the Constitution of Kenya empowers the local authorities to levy taxes in forms of property rates, entertainments taxes and charges for the various services they offer. Schedule Four clearly states the services that county governments ought to offer. It is conceivable that they ought to collect, to impose charges for the services they render. The elephant in the house is that there has been no transparent, accountable and verifiable process of collecting this revenue. As a many of my colleagues have stated, and I have also observed it in my county, many are ... view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: to believe that a county like Busia, with the border point and all the activities that happen, is unable to collect a substantial amount of revenue towards sustaining our activities. view
• 15 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when you look at Clause 160… view
• 10 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this Report. I wholly support the Report and thank the Chair of the Committee together with the Members and the secretariat for the splendid job. It is never easy to have such a detailed report in view of the challenges that we have. I hope the Almighty God will grant him his wishes in future endeavours. I just want to point out a few issues. Let me start with the issue of land ownership and documentation. It is inconceivable that in this time and era, a State corporation can allegedly ... view
• 10 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, thank you for this opportunity to contribute to this Report. I wholly support the Report and thank the Chair of the Committee together with the Members and the secretariat for the splendid job. It is never easy to have such a detailed report in view of the challenges that we have. I hope the Almighty God will grant him his wishes in future endeavours. I just want to point out a few issues. Let me start with the issue of land ownership and documentation. It is inconceivable that in this time and era, a State corporation can allegedly ... view
• 10 Sep 2020 in National Assembly: I want to train my attention on a very fundamental issue. Many of us have questioned this matter continuously and incessantly. A State corporation - or a parastatal as we know it today - was designed to be a self-sustaining organisation. It was designed to contribute to the economy of this country and to the Exchequer. I see a footnote in the Report and I want to read it verbatim; “Further, it was observed that State corporations over-relied on Government grants for continued operations rather than enhancing internally-generated funds, raising doubts on their capability as going concern in the absence ... view