Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 831 to 840 of 1514.

• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to contribute on this very important Motion. Since the last election, the party and the leadership of Wiper have been for dialogue. To date, Wiper party still stands for dialogue. The initiative by Hon. Raila Odinga and the President is great and is a good initiative for this country. I believe that this is a very good idea and the country is going to benefit from it. The most important thing is to carry Parliament, political parties and Kenyans along with it. During the last elections, most people ... view
• 14 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: divisions of Kenyans which existed. From the time this dialogue started, we have seen high spirits and hope in Kenyans. I hope the issue of blackmail will not arise at all from NASA or Jubilee. There has to be utmost good faith and most importantly, eventually there has to be a legal mechanism or medium of which all of us will translate from the goodwill to a legal structure which we will rely on, for the way forward and for the future and to make sure events like we had in 2013 and 2017 elections will never be repeated in ... view
• 27 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I have been queuing since 2.30 p.m. It is just that I briefly walked out to hand over a matter to another Member. So, it is likely my card has been here. view
• 27 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: First of all, I would like to thank the Chair of the Committee on Transport, Public Works and Housing, and his predecessor, for being here. Many other chairs should copy this example so that when matters are being debated here in relation to their committees they can be here throughout. This is a very important law. 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
• 27 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I am very grateful to Hon. Kamanda. I have looked at the First Schedule and seen the new classification of roads but just before this happened, I think somebody was trying to be mischievous in the Ministry of Transport, Infrastructure, Housing and Urban Development; because there was a new classification just last year, whereby a certain road that belonged to KeNHA suddenly became KeRRA’s. Another road that was being done by KeRRA became a county road even before the current law was passed. This was an attempt to defeat the purpose of this Act. I believe this is something which ... view
• 27 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I know of the limits of delegated authority because regulations will be made for this Act. I sit in the Committee on Delegated Legislation and I know that the Ministry of Roads has been very notorious when it comes to this sort of laws. They make regulations themselves and they do not bring them to the House. They also ensure that the regulations are effected when the House be not in session. Therefore, some of the regulations end up being challenged in courts and we end up on the drawing board again. This amounts to wastage of public finances. It ... view
• 27 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: medical care. You all know that, for instance, motorbike accidents are quite common nowadays. In fact, many mothers use motorbikes with their children. They have no choice. Where we do not have a motorbike lane, the design of the road should take care of that need because it will help ease traffic. We will save many lives and especially of children. My suggestion is that such lanes should form part of this law so that in certain classes of roads such a design is automatic. I would also want to encourage the Ministry to cultivate good relations with Parliament so ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to contribute on this very important Sessional Paper. I wish to state that Sessional Papers inform policy and policy informs the House on the making of the law or the necessary legal amendments we need to make for the benefit of the country. The housing sector was boosted by the Constitution of 2010, whereby it becomes part of the rights of every citizen of Kenya to decent housing, water supply and sewerage system. All of them are combined. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: I would like to concentrate on the part of the development policy which the Government has put in place in Vision 2030. In the regime of President Kibaki, there was a very active system of making sure that poor people in Kenya accessed housing. It still goes to the upgrading project in Kibera slums and many other low-income areas. Part of the challenges was to identify the people who were there and where they would be moved to, and even the land utilisation. One of the areas I would like to concentrate on in this contribution is the role of ... view
• 21 Feb 2018 in National Assembly: This has also been affected by devolution. The counties can also have their programme which has proper planning of our markets, towns and cities, so that it matches with our expectations. This will ensure that there is no wastage of land and that there is proper easement, so that people can access properties where they wish to develop. The most important thing is to focus on the people who are homeless, and look at the whole regime of law which deals with land. Before you construct a house, there must be land. We also need to look at any other ... view