Danson Mungatana

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• 6 May 2008 in National Assembly: But as I always say, something good can always become better. When this Bill goes to the relevant Departmental Committee, they will want to consider a few of these suggestions that I am going to make. Under the proposed Clause 137(b), there is a clear restriction on the categories of the officers or prosecutors who can enter into a plea bargain. The fact of the matter is that, in criminal practice, we have a very big deficiency of the category of people who are either senior counsel or people of higher status who can be relied on to be present ... view
• 30 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to support this Motion. At the outset, I would like to congratulate Mr. Midiwo for bringing this Motion to this House, to enable us also to put in our contributions. The idea of bringing a consumer protection law in this country is long overdue. The consumer law is a form of Government regulation which protects the interests of consumers. Right 768 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES April 30, 2008 now, as we speak, - and I agree with many other speakers before - there are many loopholes which allow people who ... view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. This Motion has been with us since last week. Would I be in order to request you to call upon the Mover to reply? view
• 29 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker. At the risk of correcting the Chair, it is always the tradition for any hon. Member, when the Motion or law has been exhausted, to call upon the Mover to reply. Then, the Chair rules. view
• 24 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to also thank the Minister for bringing this Motion. It was long overdue. As we all know, many projects that were pending in our various constituencies could not move because we were waiting for the establishment of the Board. However, I am worried about something here that the Minister needs to look at very quickly. First of all, according to Rule 3 of the new Act - the amended version of this Act - all the members of the Board must be present so that they can have their first meeting. The Minister has ... view
• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me the opportunity to contribute to this Motion. At the outset, I want to congratulate hon. Ethuro for bringing this Motion once again. I support it. First and foremost, it makes sense to cut costs in this Government. As the hon. Member was speaking, I remembered that I have my identity and my voters cards here. If you look at these documents, you will realise that the voter's card is basically an extraction of information from the identity card. They have only added an elector's number on the voter's card. The rest ... view
• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank you for giving me a few minutes to also make my points on this Motion. A suggestion has been made here in terms of the way forward. An hon. Member suggested that a Parliamentary Select Committee be set up to discuss the question of the IDPs and provide the way forward. Kenya is not the first country in the world to deal with the problem of IDPs. Kenya is amongst many countries of the world with IDPs. According to the statistics of 2006, there were 24.6 million IDPs across the world in ... view
• 23 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: I am sorry, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I beg to support. view
• 22 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, may I also take this opportunity to thank the Committee that did a wonderful job, in particular, the able presentation that was made here by Mr. Ethuro. The issues that have been raised here, in agreeing with previous speakers, need a lot of action in terms of implementation. One of the issues that came out during the presentation of the Report is that the accounting officers in the various Ministries of Government have continually been overshooting the budget that is allocated to them and yet the Permanent Secretary, Treasury, does not have any form of power ... view
• 17 Apr 2008 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, may I first take this opportunity to congratulate the Leader of the Delegation, Prof. Kamar, together with all the members of the delegation for doing us proud. I wish to thank them for taking time to attend this meeting during a time when the whole country was in a difficulty. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also want to congratulate the Speaker for ensuring that this trip was undertaken, and we were ably represented by this delegation in the meeting that produced this Report. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I support the adoption of ... view