Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

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• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Chairman. The justification is in the statute of the college. So, I want to support the Chair on this because she is right. The word ‘campus’ is correct based on the statute. view
• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 25 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, in the particular section, I have proposed an amendment to enable the Board to appoint a Corporation Secretary, as is the practice under the Mwongozo Code of Governance and Ethics. The Corporation Secretary shall also be the secretary to the Board. The Corporation Secretary will be different from the CEO under such terms and conditions of service as the Board may determine. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to comment on this very important Petition. I will limit myself to the case of snakes in the northern and eastern part of Kenya. Statistics show that about 250 Kenyans die of snake bites every year and most of them are children. What could work better is the idea of prevention. Instead of KWS making reparations for victims of snake bites who have passed on - it is very expensive - it would be better if they sensitised communities as has been prayed in this Petition. That way, people will become ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, this week, I received a call at night from a lady from a place called Kisayani. She told me that her son who is nine years old had been bitten by a snake and she needed some help. I sent the help but later on in the morning she said that the son had died. If there were preventive measures and campaigns in place, we would not have such deaths and huge sums of money would also be saved. Every allocation which goes to KWS need not end up into compensation of people. So, I stress on the ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to comment on this Petition. I watched brief in this matter as a young lawyer and I can tell you most of the parents perished due to high blood pressure occasioned by loss of their children, as they waited for compensation. It is a very weighty matter. My experience with this sort of compensation is that many times, as a practising lawyer, we have had to get contempt of court proceedings against the Solicitor-General for it even to be put in the budget. I think the Committee should come up ... view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: the Office of the Solicitor-General in this particular matter so that there is some money which can compensate people who get court orders. Otherwise, the challenge is usually that it is not budgeted for and it is not likely to be budgeted for soon. So, I would like to join the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs in this deliberation so that I can be useful to them. Thank you. view
• 24 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: All that the Leader of the Majority Party is saying is right. the problem is that the Bill itself has a problem and we need to look at a way of rectifying what is in the Bill so that we can come up with what is in the print out. view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker for giving me an opportunity to support this very important Petition. It is true that students and parents are being charged an extra fee across all primary schools in Kenya. Education is supposed to be free in this country. It has reached extent where students are being sent out of school so that their parents can pay this particular fee. Some miss out on school for quite some time. Therefore, the Petition is timely, not only for this particular fund, but the whole free education fund. It should be relooked at together with the construction of ... view
• 23 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this very important Bill. I am familiar with it because in the 11th Parliament, I was a member of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Co-operatives and we brought this Bill. In fact recently it appeared on the Order Paper but before it was reached, the Senate, which killed our 11th Parliament Bill, had already copied it and debated it quickly. It has now come back and it is like a crossbreed. It has been seconded by the Chair of the Departmental Committee on Agriculture ... view