Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. Some very important points are being made by hon. Njuguna and some Ministers are engaging the Minister for Finance, who is not listening at all to what is being said. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: No, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. The time that is being utilized by the Member should be utilized properly. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me this opportunity to also make a small contribution to this debate on the Supplementary Estimates. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, at the outset, I want to state that we are not happy with the way the Government has handled itself, as far as the preparation of these Estimates are concerned. What we say now - I hope the next Members of Parliament who shall be here will really put the Cabinet Secretary, President and his budget officers on the spot. That is because we expect them to follow the law and the spirit of the law, which is that we, as Parliament, really control the purse strings of this country and not the other way ... view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, we passed a Budget here. That Budget was based on the Budget Policy Statement that was agreed between Parliament and the Minister. When the Budget came, we expected that, that Budget would be followed. We were not wasting time. We were not engaged in discussions in the market. That Budget was meant to be followed. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to remind the House and the Minister - who was then not the Minister - that before the Budget was put before this House, the departments of Government made proposals and this House, through its departmental Committees, sat down, looked at those proposals and agreed. That is how we ended up with a Budget. So, when you have a Supplementary Estimate that takes more than 100 view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: At some point, they bring the same Supplementary Estimates which actually changes the Budget by more than 100 per cent in a certain department. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the accepted international best practice is that, if there are any changes at all within the Supplementary Estimates, it should not go beyond 10 per cent. By and large the Minister, in some of those departments, there was an attempt at adherence of that policy. Questions then have to be raised and the Minister has to explain what is happening. view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for example, if you look at the Development estimates that have been presented, you would find that the Ministry of Lands under Development Vote No.36 has had a percentage increment of 225.76 per cent up from the Budget that was presented before this House. That is making a joke of the process of budget making. Vote D23, the Cabinet Office has had an increment of equivalent of Kshs125 million, which is 67.57 per cent. Again, this is an office that brought its budget. We debated those things. We looked at them. How can it be ... view
• 19 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, then you have other important bodies such as the Kenya Anti-Corruption Commission. If you look at the Development Vote No.34, KACC has had a reduction of a total of 94 per cent, which translates to a Kshs188 million cut away from this year’s Budget. This is the same Government that talks about zero tolerance to corruption, talks about fighting corruption tooth and nail and then, in Budget, they cut 94 per cent of the funds that are supposed to go towards implementing the programmes. view