Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity. I stand to oppose this Motion. This Commission was formed by the Government. The Government brought this Commission to this House. It was not the idea of Parliament to give it two years. It was the Government’s idea that in two year’s time, the work should be done and it is the business of Parliament to oversee the Government. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Section 20(1) on the establishment of this Commission says that:- “The Commission shall be inaugurated within 21 days of the appointment of its members and shall operate for two years”. view
• 7 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: This was not the idea of Parliament. This was a Government Bill and it was the Government that brought this Commission to existence. Sub-section (2) of the same section states that the Commission would have a preparatory period of three months during which it was supposed to undertake necessary tasks for it to undertake the duties. So, you count three months. Then they had the two years. Then they sought the first extension from Parliament for six months. Now, they are coming for three months. The Minister is telling us that he is going to bring another extension. It is ... view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, with the coming of the East African Community, I want to ask the Minister whether there is a joint public health cross-border strategy to combat any form of disease that could easily move from one country to another. If it is not there, could the Minister consider convening a meeting of Ministers for Public Health to put in place a team of that nature? That is because today, it will be Ebola and tomorrow, it will be something else even more dangerous. view
• 2 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in reaction to what the Deputy Leader of Government Business has stated, some of these Ministerial Statements are actually overtaken by events. I have raised several, but one which is glaringly looking out of place now is on the Quarterly Economic and Budget Review Report, which I requested on 17th November, 2011. Obviously, some of those have been overtaken by events. You may want to look at these reports more seriously and then you look for a way of complying with these requests. Some of them are very simple. Maybe you may want to see ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Apart from the Minister for Energy, we have a substantive Leader of Government Business. The Office of the Leader of Government Business receives a salary, it has staff and is located within the precincts of Parliament. The reason Parliament has allocated, through the Budget Committee, money for this office is so that the leader can be there. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, if he is not here, he deputes to someone who can answer for the Government. I request that as you visit sanctions on the Minister for Energy, you should also visit sanctions on the Leader of Government Business. This is because the whole of this morning, and you are a witness, we have seen that the Government has not been functional and, therefore, wasting the time of this House. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I rise to second the Energy and Communications Law (Amendment) Bill, Bill No.29 of 2011. First of all, I want to thank the hon. Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Energy, Communications and Information for the work they have done. They have taken time to look at the problem that is affecting the spread of the REP. They have taken the chance to listen to what Members of Parliament have been raising here time and again about the vandalization of transformers when the programme is taking place within the various constituencies. I congratulate them because ... view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in seconding this Bill, I would like to say that law in general has been brought into society for various reasons. One of them is to regulate behaviour of society. In this particular case, what Parliament is hoping to achieve is to regulate the behaviour of those who have been making life difficult by vandalizing electrical transformers. They have been affecting a wide section of society. The penalties have been very light. This has contributed towards the continuity of this habit. view
• 1 Aug 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I stand very strongly to support the strengthening of the penalties against these vandals. The Kshs5 million fine that is proposed or ten years imprisonment or both will be a strong message being sent from this Parliament that we will not accept that vandalism to be part and parcel of Kenya. We will not accept vandalism to be business as usual in this country. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we all know that these vandals operate within the community. I would urge that we come together and when we find these vandals, we report them ... view