Hon. William Kipkemoi Kisang

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I want to comment on the Statement by hon. Sen. Chute on fertilizer. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view
• 30 Oct 2024 in Senate: As a farmer, I want to know the exact tonnes of fertilizer that were imported by National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB), which was my employer in the early 1990s. We want fertilizer to be given out to farmers across the year because there are farmers who grow potatoes whose season is throughout the year. We also have coffee and tea. This is so that they do not import only during the maize season. As we talk about maize, I urge and ask the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development and NCPB to open the depots because we have already ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir. I also rise to support this mediated version of the Division of Revenue Bill. It is not lost to all of us, as Senators or even Members of the National Assembly, that the reason we are in this particular situation - although we had earlier passed the Division of Revenue Act (DORA) and County Allocation of Revenue Act (CARA) - is because of what happened on the 25th and 26th June, 2024, the Finance Bill had to be shelved and withdrawn. This has caused the reduction of the shareable revenue to the counties to ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: We thank God that the rains have continued for long. Our people across the country have food and the rains are also continuing. We continue to tell them to plough and grow plants, so that at least the basic needs such as food, are put on the table. I believe this is one of the key reasons the inflation rate has dropped from 9.6 to 2.7. They said this is the highest drop in 17 years. It is good news. I believe by next year, we are going to feel the effects of this drop in inflation rate. There are ... view
• 27 Oct 2024 in Senate: digitize, you reduce, minimize wastages, and seal leakages, just the way the national Government has done, and revenue has grown by 6,000 per cent. Last week, we were told by His Excellency the President that the Kenya Wildlife Service’s (KWS’s) revenue grew from Kshs4 billion to approximately Kshs7 billion, using e-Citizen. Soon, they will not need any money from the Exchequer. We want to reach a level where our counties are not relying on the shareable revenue. That should be coming to do development projects. The county governments are relying on shareable revenue to pay salaries, buy medicine, do infrastructure ... view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to comment on the Statement about Moi University. In the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, Moi University was a premier university, second to the University of Nairobi (UoN). I do not know what they thought to buy Rivatex East Africa Limited. They took a loan of Kshs3 billion to buy Rivatex East Africa Limited, but they were not in the textile business. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Oct 2024 in Senate: As leaders, especially from the region and across the country, it is important to leave institutions of higher learning independent, so that they can run professionally. An institution like Rift Valley Technical Training Institute (RVTTI) is now bigger than Moi University. Right now, the Eldoret National Polytechnic has more students than Moi University. When the position for Vice Chancellor for Moi University was announced, somehow leaders from that region, including myself, could have influenced that because we wanted our own, which was wrong. We should have left the Public Service Commission or the University Council to competitively employ and get ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I also rise to join my colleagues to support the Report by the Committee on Finance and Budget to reject the amendments by National Assembly. It looks like our colleagues in the National Assembly do not know what happens in the counties. When they get such a report, the first item they want to reduce is what goes to the counties. There are about 11 of us in this House who were Members of National Assembly from 2013 to 2022. When you come here, you realize the need for protecting devolution and counties by giving ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: stipend, an allowance for them to move around. They have reduced the allocation to CHPs to Kshs2.58 billion. This means that some CHPs who are already helping our people on the ground will have to work without an allowance. How do they expect them to support? It means that communities will not have CHPs to do the basic health issues. We reject this amendment. They will have to return what they removed. The other issue that I want to touch on is the Road Maintenance Levy Fund. This is a fund that, the other day, the Cabinet Secretary for Transport ... view
• 22 Oct 2024 in Senate: However, the National Assembly goes ahead and removes the allocation to the first five counties that they were given, yet the county headquarters are not complete. If you go to Tharaka-Nithi County, and our colleague Sen. Gataya Mo Fire is here, he will tell you that it is incomplete. It is a shell. So, by not giving them what had been proposed, we are saying that let the projects continue to stall. This is unfair. Completing projects has become more expensive because of our insensitivity to not allocating resources. We need to be champions of devolution. This means rejecting anything ... view