Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, alternatively, what has been the tradition is that the Leader of Government Business would always stand in for his Ministers when they are late, particularly for a Question like this one which hits on the environment and has been asked in this House three times. There is an answer which we would like to interrogate. view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to remind His Excellency the Vice-President and Minister for Home Affairs that he has, in fact, been a Minister for Environment. So, he has full knowledge. He is capable and we are here waiting. We will help him if he has a problem, but could he answer the Question? The answer is here! view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for those of us who depend on rivers, for example, River Tana, we are very concerned when we see this kind of situation. How many Government Chemists exist? The Government needs to invest in this direction. Secondly, what measures has the Government put in place to protect rivers, like River Tana, which are lifelines for people, particularly in the downstream parts of the country? view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to join those who have said that there was good public exposition on things that this Parliament needs to do for purposes of taking the Constitution forward. view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, while listening to the exposition of public policy by His Excellency the President. I was very disappointed by the fact that things that are affecting us, a nation, right now, were not given the necessary weight. If you look at what is killing us, right now, it is the economy! Last week, I went to buy a packet of unga . The price of flour has shot up to Kshs89 per 2-kilogramme per packet. I expected the question of food prices to be an issue for public policy exposition. We are very disappointed that this ... view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the dollar has gone up. If you ask the dollar exchange rate today, we are talking about Kshs85.12. This means that our imports are extremely expensive. Therefore, if you look at any company right now, which is manufacturing in Kenya, the cost of manufacturing has gone up, which means the ordinary mwananchi will pay more. There was nothing talked about this in the exposition of the public policy. There was nothing said about the measures that we need to take to make this country a more comfortable place to live in. view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it was alive in the speech about the rise of the prices of oil in Kenya. We know what ripple effects it has across the entire economy. Nothing was said in the exposition of public policy speech about what the Government will do to help us in Kenya when the fuel prices are shooting over the Kshs100-mark per litre. Nothing was mentioned about this. These are the things which are putting us out of employment. These things are affecting companies. These are the things that are closing shops down and nothing was mentioned about them ... view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this was a special session and, in fact, the Speaker said it very clearly that there will not be another opportunity for His Excellency to address from the Chair of State, only as Member for Othaya. We expected more as a country. We expected to hear, what will happen to the kerosene prices. People are suffering. All that we are talking about is passing laws. I am not belittling that because that is our job and it has to be done. What about the things that make us live in this nation? Something needs to ... view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in fact, the way they want to interpreted the process of Budget making it is to deny the counties, the 15 per cent. They do not want to talk about the Equalization Fund, which is 0.5 per cent. We are being taken for a ride, if we do not open our eyes into the issues of the economy. We are being taken across the nation. Things are being blinded on us. We are being told that things are okay. Things are not okay. I urge hon. Members to look more carefully. We have voted for ... view
• 23 Mar 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on the issues of expounding public policy that affect Kenya, as we stand today, that Speech failed miserably. It just told us what Parliament should do. Parliament will do its work. What about the issues of public policy that needs to happen today? We have been elected in this House not to be symbols for people in power. We must say the truth. I urge Members to look around and look particularly at the economy, and you will see that we are in a problem. view