Joseph Makilap

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) On the statement sought by Hon. David Kiplagat of Soy Constituency, we asked the Cabinet Secretary to give us a statement on Tuesday next week.

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) No! We shall be ready by Tuesday.

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Public Debt and Privatisation Committee as presented by our Chairman. This is an area that has been ignored for many years even though it affects the debt stockpile for this country. Consolidated...

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Yes, Hon. Speaker.

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, at the moment, we need to attract dollars to our country. What plan do we have for the National Treasury? We are telling them to run away from expensive loans; domestic borrowing. Let us go for concessional loans that have long periods...

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. First of all, I rise to support the Chairperson of the Budget and Appropriations Committee on this Supplementary Appropriations Bill No.3. I have listened carefully, gone through it, and around Ksh1.8 billion is allocated as compensation or payment to farmers...

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Hon. Speaker, allow me one more minute. Going forward in this country, we need to make a balanced budget. During Hon. Nyachae’s time - and I was not in Parliament - he brought a balanced budget where revenue was equal to expenditure. During Hon....

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Hon. Temporary Chairman, I tend to agree with the Mheshimiwa from Thika Town Constituency that the Ksh1.5 billion given to the NIS is money that we can re-allocate to sort out Kenyans who are suffering even in our places. The information from the NIS...

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Chairman, I come from a serious pastoral community and I have seen a reduction of Ksh3,000,000,000 and I just needed a clarification from the Chair to understand. The Temporary Chairman (Hon. David Ochieng) : The Hon. Chair.

Hon. Joseph Makilap (Baringo North, UDA) Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I want to seek a clarification from the Cabinet Secretary. He said that some administrative units had been gazetted but not operationalised when he came here sometime back. He promised that after passage of the Budget, we would operationalise those...