Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: The second thing which is related to that is that there is, in the draft Bill, a complete disregard of the fact that these industrial skills need to be developed at the county level. The Board which is being established by this Bill does not seem to have been given that compulsion under law to go to the county. As a representative of the people of Garsen and many other hon. Members of Parliament here who come from outside Nairobi, the one thing that we have celebrated about the new Constitution is that it breaks the monotony of being “Nairobi ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Minister knows this because he also represents the people from outside Nairobi. There must be a clause inside the Bill that makes it mandatory for this body to devolve its work down to the county level. We need this more there than here in Nairobi. Here in Nairobi, there are many colleges, whether they are fake or not, they are colleges where students can get this training. But out there in the far-flung counties amongst the 47 counties, many of them do not have these institutions. Even the village polytechnics are not properly equipped. We ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: I want to underline this again, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. In another 12 months or so after the General Election – I believe in the second week of the second Tuesday of August, 2012 – the Minister will not be seated there. The people who will come here might be a complete different breed and the county governments will be the centre of everything for all of us. If we do not do it right now and do it right, we will never have that opportunity to get the benefit of what we need to do now. So, I am ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I also want to ask and finalize that the Minister will look, may be through the Committee or through his officers, how else we can adapt, because I have a feeling--- You know when you see an Act of Parliament talking about a Minister, it means that the drafting of this Bill was delayed somewhere and this Bill was just taken off the shelf and brought before this House. It means that the drafting is not in consonant with the thinking of the new Constitution. It also means that this Bill was done by people who ... view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: So, I plead with the Minister to go and look at this law again and make it “county- centric”. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to support the Bill. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to thank you for giving me this opportunity to move this Bill for the Second Reading. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: In the not so long time ago, public appointments in Kenya were not required to be vetted by Parliament or any other branch of Government. The Executive consequently enjoyed unfettered powers of appointing people into the Public Service, the Judiciary and very many other State organs. On this basis alone, there was a lot of patronage of political nature, tribalism and nepotism. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: There was, therefore, the culture of corruption. view
• 19 Jul 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I thought I did that, but I will do that. I wish to move that The Public Appointments (Parliamentary Approval) Bill, Bill No.3 of 2011, be now read a Second Time. I was saying that the old culture of direct appointments by the Executive made these people not only to be corrupt, but to lack any form of independence. Many of us who have experienced this know that in the past, if you needed anything in some quarters, all you needed to do was to get a politician or a “higher authority” to order something to ... view