Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker, it is on the same. Following Standing Order No.49, it is good for the House to note because this matter will go to the Committee on Implementation. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I am guided, Hon. Speaker. view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I will be brief. The amendment says: “The Accounting Officer during the year under review.” The amendment is specific, instead of naming names. That is because you may place liability on a Principal Secretary who may not be liable. The amendment is requesting that the accounting officer during the year under review be held responsible. It means from records, Parliament would be able to know exactly which Principal Secretary is responsible. Therefore, I beg to second and urge Members to support this. The Committee has done a very good job. Having done a very good job, ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Motion be amended as follows:- THAT, the Motion be amended by inserting the following immediately after the words “November 14, 2018”– “subject to: (i) deletion of recommendation no. 1 under Committee Recommendations under paragraph 375.1 (Retention of Refunds - Kshs. 881,398,162.91) on page 466 of the Report, and substituting therefor the following – “1. The Auditor General to, within three months after the adoption of this Report, undertake an audit into the payments of Kshs.292,060,779.51 and Kshs.100,372,341.65 for FY 2013/14 and FY 2014/15 respectively, totaling Kshs.392,433,121.16 made by the then ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: If you go to the Report, there are two recommendations. The second recommendation remains because the matter is still under investigation by EACC. We are not doing away with the EACC. When it comes to the issue of retention of funds and the issue of a road that was made, there is need to ensure… just like Hon. Junet has requested, within three months there should be a clarification and a further audit. In the case of roads, the auditors must be shown the road. If it is the case of retention of funds, these funds are usually retained once ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to support this very important amendment of the Cooperative Societies Act. I must declare my interest. At one point in time, I was an administrative secretary in the Ministry of Cooperatives. I am familiar with most of the matters in the cooperative movement. In fact, that was when we started preparing amendments to align several statutes in the country with the new Constitution. In the old Constitution, the title “Minister” was used. We now use “Cabinet Secretary” in its place. That is part of the amendments that have been ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: I also want to state that the cooperative movement, especially the SACCOs are worldwide. We have an umbrella body in Kenya called the Kenya Union of Savings and Credit Cooperatives (KUSCCO) and the regulatory authority is SASRA. The regulatory authority is aligned to others in the world like the one in Kingston, Jamaica, which has a similar system because it is a former British colony. The USA has a slightly different method. Some of the credit unions in the USA are bigger than banks. Harambee SACCO in Kenya is bigger than most of the banks in the country. All these ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We have umbrella bodies in different countries and Africa. There is the World Council of Credit Unions where KUSCCO is a member. The Chief Executive Officer of KUSCCO, Mr. Ototo, sits in the board of the World Council of Credit Unions. At all material time, there is consultation all over the world. That is why we cannot make a law which is not familiar or similar to other jurisdictions. We cannot reinvent the wheel. Therefore, these amendments are good because we are seeking to align our law with the First World and best practices in the world of use of ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Some people manage our monies in the Bunge SACCO and Parliamentary SACCO. We have an officer who is almost permanently based here from the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Cooperatives who is at the level of former Provincial Cooperative Officer or District Cooperative Officer. Cooperatives are devolved now. They are at county, national level and international level. We work with a Government officer. Therefore, all people elected to take care of this money should comply with certain specifications of having good conduct as contained in Chapter Six of the Constitution. We have Ethics Commission for Cooperative Societies (ECCOS) which does ... view
• 29 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: People who borrow from SACCOs are able to take their children to school and build decent houses. We have the idea of housing in the country now. We have few housing cooperatives. We have housing concepts within the cooperatives. There is KUSCCO housing and many other SACCOs. Our parliamentary SACCO has opened a housing chapter now. This will go a long way to help the Government agenda of ensuring many people have houses in the country. There is good practice of cooperatives in India. They are very strong and successful. People go there to benchmark and learn. There are many ... view