Wabunge Kenya waamua kuenda China kununua 'fanicha'....uzalendo uko wapi jamani?

[Ab-Titchaz]

Yaani jamani kwani Kenya hamna mbao?...dah!...huu sasa ni uhuni aisee.

Smatta,...this is now too much!


MPs plan China trip to buy chairs for their offices

Parliament at a past session. The Parliamentary Service Commission has organised a trip to China to shop for office furniture for MPs and senators. Photo/FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP


By ISAAC ONGIRI isaongiri@ke.nationmedia.com and BERNARD NAMUNANE bnamunane@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Thursday, July 11 2013 at 23:30


In Summary

• MPs have already made gains by winning over huge salaries. It is not fair for them to trap more benefits by making frivolous meetings." an MP who requested anonymity

Members of a parliamentary team plan to send a delegation on a window-shopping tour of China next month.The trip is meant to facilitate the procurement of office chairs for MPs' offices at County Hall.

Majority of the members of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC) are pushing Speaker Justin Muturi to authorise the trip for the MPs. Mr Muturi is the chairman of the commission.

Only a small fraction of commission members have criticised the trip, describing it as a waste of public resources.

The Nation established that efforts by two senators, Mrs Beth Mugo (Nominated) and Mr Sammy Leshorre (Samburu) to convince their colleagues to opt for a local supplier of the furniture had failed.

Mr Muturi on Thursday said that although the China trip was not necessary, he was powerless to stop it.

It is not prudent

"I cannot stop them. Wengi wape (let the majority prevail) but it is not prudent," he said.

Senate Clerk Jeremiah Nyengenye said he had no say in the decision by members to go to China.

"A decision as to whether there will be a trip or not is the PSC's. In my role as the secretary, I only implement the decision of the PSC. If they do make it, I will facilitate," he said.

A return ticket to Beijing costs Sh85,000 ($985) while a hotel room goes for between Sh26,000 ($300) and Sh43,000 ($500). If they decide to fly to Shanghai, the air ticket price rises to Sh91,000 ($1,056). The PSC is a nine-member commission that oversees the welfare of MPs, Senators and staff of the two houses.

MPs are paid about Sh78,000 ($920) as allowances per day while touring Asian cities, including Beijing, Dubai and Singapore according to the current parliamentary travel rate card.

Last year, some members of the commission flew to Israel to window-shop for furniture meant for the renovated chamber, but Parliament later opted to buy the seats from Kenya Prisons.

At the time, the commission had come up with a specification and approved a sample that would have cost taxpayers Sh400,000 for one seat.

Today, the parliamentary leadership including all members of the PSC, the two Speakers, the Leaders of Majority and Minority, the Whips from both the Senate and the National Assembly, the clerks and the heads of various directorates are in Mombasa for a retreat.

The meeting is expected to discuss administrative measures to be rolled out in the National Assembly in the coming days.

Some officials in the National Assembly have called for measures to stop wasteful use of public resources.

They say MPs were coming up with unnecessary meetings and foreign trips with the sole purpose of claiming allowances.

MPs plan China trip to buy chairs for their offices - Politics - nation.co.ke

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

• Comments:
  
  "Looks like the biggest winner in the Elections was/is China. Well guys, have a safe trip. I support the MPs. In fact I think they should just get the offices in China and work from there"
  
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"Bon Voyage Gentlemen/women. Lucky you , your country is rich and your positions entitles you to confirm by touching that your seats are genuine ( I guess leather) and not the "fakes" that Wanjiku & co are used. Travelling 1st class preferably in a private jet will make you ascertain quality of good seats and don't put a blemish to your names by booking the River Road equivalent hotel in China. Only a Presidential suite is the top end luxury hotels will make you know how the fine furniture looks and feels like. BTW was there a teachers strike?"
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[OLESAIDIMU]

Ukistaajabu ya Musa...

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Ukistaajabu ya Musa...

....utaona ya kina Uhuruto!...Kazi ipo.

 

[Ngongoseke]

Nilishawaambia sana hata hapa jamvini,wanasiasa ni watu wasioaminika hata kidogo hawafai kabisa,watatumia kila hila mradi tu washike zile nafasi wanazotaka,maendeleo yetu yanaanzia kwenye family zetu mpaka katika makundi lakini maendeleo yanayoletwa na mwanasiasa hayapo,wanasiasa wa kiafrica wote wamezaliwa na baba mmoja na mama mmoja,tofauti yao ni majina ya vyama vyao na nchi zao,

Waswahili wanasema ukitaka kujua tabia ya mtu ngoja azikamate noti utamjua

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Mwaka jana hivyo viti wanavyokalia Bungeni viligharimu $3,000 kila kiti.

Kenyan MPs get new $3,000 seats

Comments (109)

The chairs, weighing 50kg, have a 30-year guarantee

Kenya's newly refurbished parliament, which has been dogged by criticism over the cost of chairs for MPs, has been opened by President Mwai Kibaki.

Costing about $3,000 (£1,900) each, the 350 red chairs were made by the country's prisons department.

The original tender was given to a company outside the country but was cancelled when some MPs discovered that each chair would cost $5,000.

Officials say the $12m renovation brings parliament into the digital age.

"The changes we are making are going to input positively in governance," parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende told the BBC.
He said electronic voting would let MPs vote according to their conscience rather than be forced to vote in a certain way by party whips.

"Now the member will be completely on his own, he will be independent, he will make up his mind and just press a button."

BBC News - Kenyan MPs get new $3,000 seats



Sasa leo wanaelekea China kutafuta 'mbao'...mwenzenu nimekoma ubishi!

 

[Bukyanagandi]

Mkuu Ab-T, ni vigumu kuelewa kinacho endelea ndani ya bongo ya sisi watu weusi!! - Masaa yote tunafikilia vitu vya anasa tu, oh yes buzz word ni spend, spend , spend - wasting taxpayers' money as if there is no 2morrow. Jaribu kutembelea jengo la Bunge la Uingereza, members wanakaa viti vya kawaida kabisa akeen to benches, sijawahi kutembelea Bunge la Merikani lakini nafikili alina tofauti na la Uingereza furniturewise, waswahili tunapenda sana masifa na ushindani wa kijinga badala ya kuwafikilia kuwainua raia kuwatoa kwenye lindi la umaskini Viongozi wanaishia kwenye shopping spree zisizo na tija kwa mataifa yao.

 

[Dhuks]

Ab-Titchaz

This is most disheartening but on another note i think you have developed an anti-Kenyan type of attitude, a brief look at the threads you have started here attests to the fact.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Ab-Titchaz

This is most disheartening but on another note i think you have developed an anti-Kenyan type of attitude, a brief look at the threads you have started here attests to the fact.

I hear you, but reporting on the truth doesnt equate to 'developing an anti-Kenyan type attitude' my
good sir. Thats just what's out there. If I was conjuring up stories, then your statement would hold true.

 

[Ab-Titchaz]

Mkuu Ab-T, ni vigumu kuelewa kinacho endelea ndani ya bongo ya sisi watu weusi!! - Masaa yote tunafikilia vitu vya anasa tu, oh yes buzz word ni spend, spend , spend - wasting taxpayers' money as if there is no 2morrow. Jaribu kutembelea jengo la Bunge la Uingereza, members wanakaa viti vya kawaida kabisa akeen to benches, sijawahi kutembelea Bunge la Merikani lakini nafikili alina tofauti na la Uingereza furniturewise, waswahili tunapenda sana masifa na ushindani wa kijinga badala ya kuwafikilia kuwainua raia kuwatoa kwenye lindi la umaskini Viongozi wanaishia kwenye shopping spree zisizo na tija kwa mataifa yao.

Umenena vyema mkuu mwenzangu. Hii kitu leo wamechemka!

 

[Idimi]

Ukistaajabu ya Musa...

Utayaona ya Ndugai. Yaani hawa wabunge wa Kiafrika wala hawatofautiani.

 

[Dhuks]

I hear you, but reporting on the truth doesnt equate to 'developing an anti-Kenyan type attitude' my
good sir. Thats just what's out there. If I was conjuring up stories, then your statement would hold true.

A version of the truth can also mean playing blind when there is something positive to report while being hawk-eyed anytime a negative happens, you enter into the game with alot of prejudice to start with.
Take a random check at the threads you have started, out of twenty i am sure nineteen will not be positive. I know its not your job to report Kenya positively but i also assumed its not your intention to expose all its dirty linen.

 

[FirstLady1]

Wizi mtupu

 

[Koborer]

Mwaka jana hivyo viti wanavyokalia Bungeni viligharimu $3,000 kila kiti.

Kenyan MPs get new $3,000 seats

Comments (109)

The chairs, weighing 50kg, have a 30-year guarantee

Kenya's newly refurbished parliament, which has been dogged by criticism over the cost of chairs for MPs, has been opened by President Mwai Kibaki.

Costing about $3,000 (£1,900) each, the 350 red chairs were made by the country's prisons department.

The original tender was given to a company outside the country but was cancelled when some MPs discovered that each chair would cost $5,000.

Officials say the $12m renovation brings parliament into the digital age.

"The changes we are making are going to input positively in governance," parliamentary speaker Kenneth Marende told the BBC.
He said electronic voting would let MPs vote according to their conscience rather than be forced to vote in a certain way by party whips.

"Now the member will be completely on his own, he will be independent, he will make up his mind and just press a button."

BBC News - Kenyan MPs get new $3,000 seats



Sasa leo wanaelekea China kutafuta 'mbao'...mwenzenu nimekoma ubishi!

And they tell us to buy Kenyan hence build Kenya. Now when they go Chinese who will build Kenya? Bure Kabisa.