from Judy Miriga
Folks,
These are good signs representing good tiding……It is about time for Kenyans to know through their elected Parliamentary Representatives, what it is all about in the Finance Ministerial Department……How Their Taxpayer money is collected and distributed for public service…….How it is spent………who gets what and why……. to be read to them…….How and Why it got consumed or overspent………
That in going through the Referendum in a landslide, Kenya begun to walk the walks and talk the talks of Public Mandate……..
The People Public have a right to know what is contained in the money-box….if it is a snake, they must be told, so they get prepared about what type, the wight and size, whether it is poisonous or not ….people through their representatives have a right to know how to receive the snake……whether they will choose to save it or kill it……..
In Retrospect, the budget must speak for itself before it is tabled……so it is the right thing the Civil Society have begun to move towards the right direction as is required by Article 221 of the Constitution.
It will be as hard as a rock to force a bottle down the throat of people in forcing them to eat a humble pie…..
The Budget will not be read unless it goes through Parliamentary process…..It is the Law People……..in a new begining …… !
Cheers everybody…..!
Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com
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Battle Over Local Budget Goes to Court
Maureen Ngesa
30 May 2011
Nairobi — Kenya’s Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta has been sued for failing to submit estimates to Parliament ahead of the reading of the national budget next week.
A civil society group, the International Centre for Policy and Conflict, on Monday moved to the High Court in Nairobi arguing that the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Mr Kenyatta is acting in breach of the Constitution.
The organisation says that it would be illegal to allow Mr Kenyatta to read the budget speech without having submitted estimates to parliament two months before end of the current financial year as required by Article 221 of the Constitution.
Mr Kenyatta last week announced he will read the speech on June 8. The current financial year ends on June 30.
Justice Geanne Gacheche ordered that the case comes up for hearing on Tuesday.