Daniel Kitonga Maanzo

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 981 to 990 of 1514.

• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important Bill, the Division of Revenue Bill, by which in preparation of the Budget, we are able to show what goes to the counties and what remains for the national Government. Over Kshs300 billion is going to the counties and over Kshs1.2 trillion will remain with the national Government. Therefore, a lot is expected from the national Government though when you look at the Constitution on what was devolved and what remained at the national level, you may wonder why counties do not have enough ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: We are all aware of some law which was passed here. It went to the Senate and died somewhere and I doubt whether it can be revived. It does matter that the national Government should take initiative. There should be no need for a Kenyan to die of starvation, or Kenyans to be feeding on berries when we have the Equalisation Fund. For a Kenyan in the rural areas and in those particular counties which were demarcated--- In fact, on Equalisation Fund, there are many areas in the country including Makueni Constituency where development has not been equalised since Independence. ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: we never saw the Emergency Fund. In fact, it should be audited properly. Anytime you try to follow it up, you will be given all manner of excuses by the national Government. It was chaired by the Deputy President. I can assure him a lot of places ravaged by El-Nino have never recovered to date and emergency is still there. In fact, we are looking for other ways of mitigating it through the county allocation of 2 per cent. The Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) has a little bit of Emergency Fund. If you utilise the Emergency Fund properly, you will ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: be able to cater for all Kenyans who are in emergency situations like now the case of doctors’ strike. Emergency funds could be used to save lives and stop the strike for a moment while other legal mechanisms are being sought. view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. The reason for saying this is because the doctors’ strike could be mitigated through emergency funding while we make the necessary laws. We have realised the gap is in laws, some of which are pending before this House and some of which once passed, will go a long way to stop this sort of situation. There is famine and I really want to thank God because the weather forecast is saying that we will have a lot of rain in a week’s time. Therefore, we should prepare. That is good news that this drought ... view
• 2 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: corruption because we have no mechanism of dealing with it at the county level. We do not have proper mechanisms to fight corruption or we are not well empowered or facilitated. The EACC we have now is not well funded. Even with its own other weaknesses, it would do better if it was well funded. While we pass this Bill, those are the areas that need to be looked at so that we can avoid the loopholes in the whole revenue allocation system. The last one is on pending bills. The country has so many pending bills at the national ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to second this very important Motion. I would like to read Article 38(3) of the Constitution, which says: “Every adult citizen has the right, without unreasonable restrictions— (a) to be registered as a voter; (b) to vote by secret ballot in any election or referendum; and (c) to be a candidate for public office, or office within a political party of which the citizen is a member and, if elected, to hold office.” view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: This falls under political rights of Kenyans. It is in our Constitution. It begins from Article 38 to Article 38(3) which is quoted here by Hon. Jude Njomo. It is very important for Kenyans to know that it is their constitutional right to register as voters, but as Hon. Jude Njomo has said, in Kenya, voting is not compulsory. Therefore, we have to come up with persuasive mechanisms to persuade Kenyans to participate in this very important exercise. The newspapers have recently reported that in both Jubilee Party and the Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) areas, voters seem to ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Yesterday, in the Committee on Delegated Legislation, we met the IEBC team and it became an issue because they have now made regulations which members here should be very keen to look at. This is because once you have the election law and other regulations – ordinarily the process of regulations is that once they are tabled here and nobody looks at them, there is no issue within a week. A week elapses while the Committee on Delegated Legislation goes through these regulations then, of course, they will not be debated and they will automatically be adopted as a matter ... view
• 1 Feb 2017 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me an opportunity to comment on this Statute Law (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.45 of 2016). I have looked at the whole Bill. My attention went to the Sexual Offences Act, 2006. Being aware that Hon. Florence Mutua has brought similar amendments to this and also considering all these miscellaneous amendments, the one on the Sexual Offences Act is quite substantive. In fact, it should have been a Bill on its own. It will be my proposal to the lawyers on the other side that this should be treated on its ... view