Danson Mungatana

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• 15 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thirdly, there were audit queries by the Controller and Auditor General pending since 2008. I have taken the liberty also to Annex page 265 of the 2007/2008 which indicates that the Controller and Auditor General refused to certify certain accounts. That means that the Controller and Auditor-General was not happy with view
• 15 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge you to give the necessary order for the compliance. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also want to join my other colleagues in thanking the Prime Minister and the President for leading the campaign for the new Constitution. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want the Prime Minister to clarify the question of funding for this process. You will recall that there was a big delay in the release of funds for civic education. When we inquired, we were told that the Prime Minister’s Office had only sent Kshs30 million and the Ministry of Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs, Kshs10 million. It was none other than the Chairman of the IIEC himself who was raising this concern when he was flagging off the civic education campaign. I am happy to note that today the Prime Minister has assured us ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. I want to take this opportunity to thank hon. Kaino for bringing this Motion before this House. One of the most critical sectors in this country is the sector of agriculture. Indeed, over 80 per cent of the population in this country is fully dependent on subsistence agriculture. The first point that I want to make is that this House should support this Motion, which in part says; “this House resolves that the Ministry of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Ministry of Water and Irrigation, move to set up small holder irrigation schemes of ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: dispensation, through the National Assembly and the Senate, will be passing specific Budget proposals with specific money for things to happen. It surprises me when people stand out there, and they do not understand the critical shift of power that we want to make and say that we should not have a new Constitution. Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, time has come when this House must stop begging the Executive. If we were in the new dispensation of time, hon. Kaino only needs to talk to hon. Mbau, the Chairman of the Budget Committee to make sure that money is ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I apologize. I have not had a paradigm shift in my mind. view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I entirely apologize. In the past, the attitude of the Executive has been that the Motions that we pass here have been merely persuasive. This is the point I want to make. This is why we must pass this new Constitution, so that the Executive can move with the mood of this country. We must not take this opportunity to lose this chance that has come. Having said that, I want to make this other point that the small holder irrigation schemes development across all the developing world have been shown to be a very key ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, these schemes used to exist and they are not new. In Garsen which is my constituency, we had several small-scale holder irrigation schemes which were left by the Ministry of Agriculture to collapse. We are saying, as a House, that the Ministry should go back to the basics to revive these schemes. Small- holder irrigation schemes have also been shown to be a vehicle for the long-term agricultural and macro-economic development in any country. Malawi has been mentioned here in detail. That country, which was food deficient, changed overnight because emphasis was placed on going back ... view
• 9 Jun 2010 in National Assembly: is, the people who deal with production at the lower level are the ones we really need to support. Money should be pumped into those areas. We want this to be successful. To be successful, we do not need to go beyond Malawi which availed simple implements to small-scale holders. They made fertilizers available to the farmers at no cost at all. They also availed extension officers to the small-scale holders. There is no magic in this formula. As we speak today, the efforts in Malawi have paid off and the benefits are really huge. view