Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I will be very brief. Still from the Budget Committee, my issue is with the tabling of the Supplementary Estimates before they have gone to the Departmental Committees. The Assistant Minister knows that now the process of Budget making is not an entirely Executive process. It is a shared process between Parliament and the Executive. In the making of the main Budget, all the proposals have to pass through Departmental Committees of this House so that we agree that those are the estimates which are brought to this House as Budget. I ... view
• 17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. In view of the fact that the ruling that you are going to give tomorrow will affect even the propriety or otherwise view
• 17 Apr 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to ask the Minister why it is that on the list that she has provided, a lot of the people and the companies that have been awarded contracts do not come from Tana River County. If you look at the answer to part (b) of the Question, you will appreciate that even the Minister herself could not get the co- operation of the contractor, M/s Pure Water Resources Limited of P.O. Box40514, Nairobi. The contractor could not even go to the site to inspect the project. Why is Mr. Minister still continuing with this old ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to make a follow up on the second bit of what hon. Mbadi has raised. In the event that the Minister will confirm that they are actually levying illegal taxes for failure to pass the Finance Bill, what arrangements has he made to refund Kenyans the taxes that they have levied, and that are not covered by law? view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to start by thanking the Minister who moved this Bill for all the comments he made. I also want to thank the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government who has seconded this Bill for all the comments that they made. I would, first of all, want to join the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Local Government in urging hon. Members of the House to be very careful about this Bill. He has quoted the history correctly and said that the majimbo governments were killed through starvation of funds from the ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to start by what I see as an attempt to control county government funds outside the Constitution through Clause 17. Clause 17 is a very dangerous clause and I want the Minister and hon. Members of Parliament to look at it again together with others that I am going to mention. This clause talks about the responsibilities of the national Treasury with respect to public funds and the Constitution. The Constitution says that the funds of the county governments will be a minimum of 15 per cent and will not be subject to ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this is not the spirit of Clause 17. Clause 17, instead of creating a situation where the county government quota is automatically deducted and sent to the county government, it tries to create a schedule for payments; effectively what it says is that there will be an inter-governmental budget and economic council, which will create a schedule for payments and that schedule will have cash flow projections. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, Clause 8 particularly says that: “In making payments from the Consolidated Fund to county governments revenue fund, the national Treasury shall ensure that disbursements are carried out promptly in accordance with the published schedule of the disbursements. In the event of a shortfall of funds, the national Treasury shall ensure that disbursement of available revenue is on a view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: basis and takes into account Articles 202 and 203 of the Constitution”. In effect, what it is saying is that if the entire nation collected this amount of money, the projections of the cash flow were done in this way. The Treasury is saying that, for instance, last year we would not have got an automatic charge on the Consolidated Fund of the Kshs105 billion that ought to have gone to the counties automatically. What Treasury is saying in this particular clause is that if we have collected so much by the end of the first quota, then whatever little--- ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: for the rest of their lives. If we have shortfalls, Mr. County Treasurer or whoever will be in charge of the treasury will wait. We shall divide this on a pro rata basis for all the 47 Counties. Then, after we get whatever amount should come, then we will remit it to the county. So, this is what is going to happen practically. The Governor will have plans of action and he will need money. The County Secretary in charge of the Treasury will be telling the Governor and the Cabinet of the Governor and the counties that there is ... view