Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I know my hon. colleagues would speak more on that but I want us to talk about another issue. The Treasury has also tried to give itself powers that do not belong to them. I am looking at Clause 6. I am raising these issues so that Members can pick up some of the things that are worrying me; the thinking that is behind Treasury. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the Treasury must not be involved in issues to do with auditing. If we passed in this Constitution an independent office called the Auditor-General’s Office, then the Treasury must not purport to try and create a parallel system that will be bringing certain other audits that will be contrary, maybe even in conflict with what the Auditor-General may have done. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, if you look at Clause 6, in a very nice way, it has been pushed somewhere there saying at 6(b) “This Act shall prevail in the case of any inconsistency” Therefore, it creates a seniority of this Act. If you look Clause 6, you will see that it says: “This Act shall prevail in case of any inconsistency between this Act and any other legislation, on the following matters- (b) preparation, submission and auditing of accounts including the time for doing so.” So, the Treasury wants to have power through this clause. Even if the ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: controlling numbers in the House. We would have facilitated the killing of the Office of the Auditor-General in this country. view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. That is not a point of order. I was making a point that the Treasury is arrogating itself powers that are dangerous and they are obfuscating other offices that ought to have equal powers. I will now come to another point. This is a very quick one; sub clause 6 again. I am still on the powers of the Treasury on Clause 17. It says that the approval or withdrawal from the Consolidated Fund by the Controller of Budget together with written instruction from the National Treasury requesting for withdrawal shall be sufficient ... view
• 13 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I wish to say one other very quick thing before I finish. Look at, for example, the powers that these people want to give themselves. Under Clause 5, if a county executive member of finance has with the approval of the county assembly decided to create a county corporation in their gazette, they are trying to say that it has to come to Parliament. Downstairs, when he has finished with whatever corporation they were dealing with, they do not need Parliament. Why are we making life so difficult for counties ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you for giving me this opportunity. view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I want to ask the Assistant Minister, what is happening in his Ministry? Ordinarily, as far as Government policy is concerned, parastatals always begin to exploit a resource and then they can sell of off shares to the people and then they continue from there. For example, the Kenya Power Company (KPC) started as a parastatal. Today, it is a private company. There are so many others. He says the local residents do not have money to exploit this resource. Why can the Government not take the first step of investing in this business and then sell shares to the ... view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, first, I would like to congratulate the Minister because he seems to be aware of what is happening on the roads generally. view
• 7 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: I want him to also tell us what is happening to the Garissa-Modogashe Road. Initially, he had told us about the BADEA funding and, up to now, we have not heard anything going on. He should tell us what is going on. view