Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: in that regard. We have also seen major traffic jams in petrol stations that have caused a lot of time wastage, delays and inconvenience to Kenyans. view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: The best way forward is for the Ministry to quickly issue a comprehensive statement even they present to Parliament on Tuesday so that Kenyans can know exactly what is happening and predict or be told how the problem is going to be sorted and how long it is going to take. When there is uncertainty, whatever was issued to the Press yesterday through a television interview did not look satisfactory. There is need for the Cabinet Secretary for Energy and the Principal Secretary to quickly issue a press statement... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Motion. I want to agree with Hon. Mutunga that a lot of times, donors want to deal directly with county governments. Devolution is one of the most important phenomena of our Constitution. There are a lot of expectations from Kenyans that devolution will take development to the grassroots level. Unfortunately, that is not what has happened. Up to now, after about 10 years of devolution in Kenya, averagely Ksh80 billion has been allocated to every county. Unfortunately, while only about Ksh1 billion has been sent to each constituency through the NG-CDF ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: 10 years, you will see a big difference between what has been funded through NG-CDF and what the county governments have achieved. view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, that is how the foreign donors came in to directly give more funds to the counties other than the normal funding that we do through the national Government and the division of revenue. Quite a number of projects go on in different counties. They are funded by different donors according to the negotiations by different county governments. In the case of Makueni, we have a food processing plant which, at first, was funded by the county government with Ksh3billion. When they were buying the processing equipment, I am aware that the European Union (EU) gave them an additional ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: Similarly, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) constructed a milk processing plant at Kathonzweni Sub County. However, it did not take off as it was expected, although there was additional funding like the one we are discussing now. A plant to process green grams was put up in Makindu and again, up to today, nothing much has come out of it. What am I trying to say? These funds went to Makueni County. They were supposed to serve the people and devolution purpose. The projects were funded by the county government and international organisations. The question that then ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: When we come up with this legislation, what will be the role of the Senate? How will the Senate monitor this? The work of the Senate is to pool monies from the national Government in relation to devolution and go out to the counties to serve the people there, supplement or improve what has not been sufficiently covered by the normal monies which are allocated. This law will improve this. We will have more accountability. Someone from the Auditor-General’s office will now be able to follow up the projects. We really need to synchronise how the national Government funds projects. ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: I beg to support the Motion and urge Members to support it so that we can live the dream of devolution, which is in our Constitution. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: I thank you for giving me an opportunity to discuss this very important Bill. An election law is very sensitive. When I looked at this Amendment Bill and the existing Act, I came to the conclusion that, although the amendments have been proposed by the IEBC, it could be a case of over-legislation on matters which have already been settled. These are matters that have been in practice since 2011 and have been useful. The only new useful thing I have seen is on county election petitions – the provision that the High Court becomes the final court in determination ... view
• 5 Apr 2022 in National Assembly: accountable. We are now making the presiding officer accountable. If you sue, it means you are going to include the pressing officer in the suit. That will bring in a lot of work. The IEBC did not think through clearly on this one. Our Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs (JLAC) did not think through what it is and yet, we have a lot of election practitioners there, including my good friends Hon. Kaluma and T.J. Kajwang’. They understand this very well. This will increase the number of people you will sue because the returning officer is one of ... view