National Assembly · Afternoon Sitting
Tuesday, 23 July 2024
The House considered and moved to adopt the third report of the Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee on NG‑CDF audits for nine Bungoma constituencies, highlighting land title problems, misuse of emergency funds and partial project allocations. Members, notably Hon. Oundo, emphasized that MPs are not accounting officers, called for stricter accountability, capacity‑building and smoother handovers for fund account managers, and urged sensitivity to challenges in remote areas. The debate was largely procedural with constructive criticism and recommendations. Members debated the performance and oversight of the NG-CDF, with Hon. Makali Mulu urging stricter punitive action against fund managers for alleged mismanagement while still advocating for increased allocations. Hon. Julius Melly highlighted the fund's positive impact on local infrastructure, praised the Auditor-General's role, and called for stricter accountability and flexibility regarding title deeds. The motion to adopt the report and boost NG-CDF funding was broadly supported. Hon. Beatrice Elachi defended the NG-CDF, highlighting its successes in her constituency while urging Parliament to improve oversight, streamline project implementation, and consider using the fund to support free day secondary education. She criticized mismanagement and procedural lapses, called for greater unity among MPs and engagement with the public and judiciary, and pledged additional support for vulnerable Form IV students.
Hon. Members, there is no quorum. Serjeant-at-Arms, ring the Quorum Bell. Clerk-at-the-Table, read out the Orders.
[(The Quorum Bell was rung)]
Hon. Members, there is a Communication at Order No. 2, which I will do slightly later. Next Order.
Hon. Members on your feet, please take your seats. The Hon. Minority Whip, take your seat. Members coming in, please, take the nearest seats. Thank you.
[(Hon. Junet Mohamed and several Members stood along the aisle)]
Hon. Emaase, we wait for your Chairman. You will be given an opportunity to table and give notice of Motion. Chairman, Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives.
Hon. Speaker. I beg to give notice of the following Motion. THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Departmental Committee on Trade, Industry and Co-operatives on its inspection visit to the New Kenya Planters Cooperatives Union warehouses in Nairobi, Sagana and Meru, laid on the table of the House on Tuesday, 23rd July 2024. I thank you, Hon. Speaker.
Next Order.
Hon. Members we are now at Order 8 on the Public Petition on Funds Spent contrary to provisions of Article 223 of the Constitution. My record shows that Hon. Nimrod Mbai moved the Motion. Hon. Janet Sitienei seconded the Motion. The Question was proposed and then there was a Member who claimed that there was no quorum. So, we now open the Motion to debate. My screen has nobody desiring to speak to…
Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I just want to indulge you on this matter. This matter of expenditure as per Article 223 of the Constitution is a matter of national interest. That is why the Petitioner had petitioned Parliament so that the matter is debated. From what you have said, it was only moved and seconded. I am sure Members may not have had time to look at the recommendations. I do not know wheth…
Are you moving that we adjourn the debate on this Motion?
Yes. I would be proposing that we adjourn the debate to another day.
Do not propose. Just move that we adjourn it.
Hon. Speaker, I beg to move that we adjourn the debate to another day to allow Members to look at the Report and then we can debate from an informed position.
Do you have a Seconder?
I second. Yes, the Leader of the Majority Party.
[(Question put and agreed to)]
[(Debate on the Motion deferred)]
Hon. Speaker, I beg for your indulgence because I know Members have just come back from the recess and this is part of the business that came towards the end of the last Session. You remember that many Members have raised concerns on the performance of the Committee on Petitions on how quickly they process petitions. This being one very important report, I want to agree with Hon. Makali Mulu becau…
interact with it because this relates to the payments that were made in the dying hours of the last regime. The Ksh6 billion Telkom heist and many other payments that were made in the run-up to the last elections are issues that are being addressed by this Report. I beg Members to interact with it so that when this matter comes up for debate again, we debate with the full knowledge of what the Co…
Thank you. Next Order.
Chairperson of Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee. Is that the Committee of Mulyungi? Hon. Obiri, are you the Vice-Chair or a Member of the Committee?
[(Hon. Innocent Obiri rose in his place)]
I am a member of the Committee. I am moving on behalf of the Chair.
Go ahead.
Hon. Speaker, on behalf of the Chairman of the Decentralised Funds Committee, I beg to move: THAT, this House adopts the third Report of the Decentralised Funds Accounts Committee on its consideration of the Reports of the Auditor-General on the Financial Statements for the National Government Constituencies Development Fund for nine constituencies in Bungoma County for Financial Years 2013/2014,…
Hon. Speaker, the Committee, upon examination of the Auditor-General's reports for the nine constituencies, it made general observations and recommendations as follows: There are outstanding land issues in the constituencies examined related to transfer, succession and acquisition of the title deeds for all the land purchased in the review period. The Committee recommends, amongst others, that th…
[[The Speaker (Hon. Moses Wetang’ula) left the Chair] [The Temporary Speaker (Hon. Peter Kaluma) took the Chair]]
Who is seconding? Hon. Ng’elechei, Member of Parliament for Elgeyo Marakwet.
Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker. I beg to second the Motion: THAT, this House adopts the third Report of the Decentralised Funds Accounts
Hon. Temporary Speaker, I beg to give notice of the following Motion: THAT, this House adopts the Report of the Budget and Appropriations
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Hon. Members, please be upstanding. The debate on this particular Motion will continue tomorrow. Hon. Members, the time being 7.00 p.m., this House stands adjourned until Wednesday, 24th July 2024, at 9.30 a.m. The House rose at 7.00 p.m.
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