Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 941 to 950 of 1514.

• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me the opportunity to support this Petition. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: One time, I was the Secretary of Cooperatives in Kenya. It is true that many co- operatives in the 1900s and a while back went through very difficult times. However, a co- operative society is a body corporate. It can sue and can be sued and action can be taken or even a petition brought to Parliament for intervention. It is possible in law. Therefore, it is only fair that once a body corporate hires people, like what this co-operative society did, the moment it is liquidated, such people should be paid their dues and the shareholders paid their shares. ... view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: these co-operative societies are very rich, especially from that region. They have a lot of assets. What has happened in the past is mismanagement. I believe the Committee in charge of cooperatives will do its best and Hon. Muthomi Njoki’s constituents will be paid their dues with interest. It is also a caution. Now, there is a new Commissioner for Co-operatives who is mandated to take stock and ensure that the property belonging to co-operative owners is not plundered. view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to comment on this debate on the President’s Address. One of the things the Jubilee Government came to power with, and it was a big promise, was the one million acres of irrigated land. In fact, the country invested a bit of money in it. I remember one time when the President visited Kulalu Irrigation Scheme with engineers and the people who were starting the project, he told them that they should not follow him to Nairobi immediately he commissioned the project. Some work was done but it was ... view
• 22 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: should be checked. As one Member has said, tarmac construction is much expensive in this country than in other countries. If you go to Zambia, which has a smaller economy than ours, they are doing very well in tourism. We are losing tourists to Zambia because of insecurity. We can check insecurity by first of all reorganising ourselves and moving out of Somalia and defending our borders because that is the requirement under international law. We were only in Somalia for a short while to stabilise things but now we seem to be staying there forever spending a lot of ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you Hon. Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to add my voice to this debate. It is true that there are quorum issues in the committees and the House, especially when business is supposed to start. The particular article of the Constitution needs to be construed so that it can serve the purpose of Kenyans. I agree that the most important moment is when the Question is being put. We also need to amend the Standing Orders to align them with the Constitution and save time when the quorum issue matter arises, or at the beginning of the business ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to comment on this very important Motion on the CIOC and the issues relating to counties. I sit on the Departmental Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Cooperatives and there have been a lot of issues because agriculture is devolved and there is still also a national role, among other things. In many other areas where devolution has taken place, you find that there have also been pending issues like in the health sector. We needed something such as a The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information ... view
• 14 Mar 2017 in National Assembly: team or a commission which cuts across what is happening at the county level and what is happening at the national level. Therefore, oversight has become a challenge generally and that is why this Report was very important to make sure some of the things are streamlined to make devolution a reality in this country now that Kenyans have put it in the Constitution. It is clear there are resources all over the counties which were generated even in the old county councils. If you check, very few county governments have retained those resources. Some of the money is lost. ... view
• 21 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Hon. Speaker. view