Kisumu Assembly goes to 1 month recess without passing budget estimates.
By Dickson Odhiambo.
August 1, 2019.
Kisumu Assembly goes to 1 month recess without
passing budget estimates.
THE County Assembly of Kisumu has today adjourn for a one
month long recess but has still not yet passed the financial year 2019/2020
budget.
The County Assembly will now be on recess as from this
August 2, 2019 to September 2 this year when it will resume its sittings.
Moving the motion of adjournment, Kisumu County Assembly
Leader of Majority Kenneth Onyango said the recess will make the members of the county
assembly to fully connect with their electorates after having serious business
at the Assembly for several months since their last recess.
He said this will be an opportunity for the Committees within
the Assembly to deliberate on various issues before them since they will have
adequate time during the recess, adding that after which they will be able to
present their reports before the Assembly after it resumes.
Members of the County Assembly who supported the motion
overwhelmingly passed it upon debating about it.
Rashid Miruka of North Nyakach Ward while contributing to
the motion urged fellow members to go and prepare well and come up with proper motions
to be debated before the House when it resumes from recess.
Maureen Atiang of Chemelil Ward who also supported the
motion urged the PIC and PAC members not to travel to far places since they
have weighty matters to be discussed during the recess.
Majority of MCAs supported the motion and Kaloleni/Shauri
Moyo ward Representative Prisca Misachi called the mover of the motion to reply
before it was passed.
When replying to motion as its mover, Majority leader Kenneth
Onyango thanked the MCAs for supporting the motion.
He asked the Members of the Budget committee where he is a
member that they should speed up the process of preparing the report on the 2019/2020
Budget Estimates for debate and adoption during the recess.
Addressing the press outside the county Assembly after the
motion on adjournment for the recess, Majority Leader Kenneth Onyango said the
Assembly will gazet a special sitting in the course of next week so as to
debate and pass the Budget estimates.
He said the Budget Committee has been working overtime so as
finish some few areas on the budget estimates, adding that a substantial
progress has been made.
He assures the residents of Kisumu that the budget estimates
will be passed, adding that the committee will tomorrow have a meeting with the
finance department from the executive wing of the county Government.
“World over, the budget is normally a negotiated document and
we must take cognizant of the fact that this process should not derail the
development agenda of the county. I want to assure our people that we are in
full control and the budget will be passed,” he said.
He said it is important to come up with a budget with
expectation of the people of Kisumu County.
He said the current impasse though regrettable has not been
out of malice but has been out of just a realization that the County must come
together.
The County Assembly of Kisumu has not passed the budget
estimates for the year 2019/2020 due to impasse between the County Assembly and
the executive wing of the county Government.
The Assembly had demanded a raft of issues it wanted the
executive wing addressed before passing the budget estimates.
Their demand included wanting to know the list of all the
pending bills as well as demanding the closing balances among other two issues.
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