Danson Mungatana

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• 22 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I now come to the Bill. This is a very technical Bill. It is so technical that most people when they start reading, they say we need more time. Even if we put more time, they will still ask for more time. I have said it here before that it is decision time. We are in a time of history where we must make decision. It is upon us, as this Parliament, to actually take the decisions. We must be bold and courageous. Let us not start filibustering about what we need to do. view
• 22 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: I am very happy with the drafting of this Bill. I concur with most of the observations that have been made. Of course, I have stood here many times to say we can always improve. Some of the things in this Bill can be improved at the Committee Stage. Others will be improved after we have passed the law. view
• 22 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the only thing that I wanted to add in terms of my own thinking is that let us ask the philosophical question that has been asked here many times. Who has brought the problem as far as land registration is concerned? That question has not been answered in this beautiful draft. My simple answer is people have come, for example to the Coast where I come from, who have the knowledge about how to acquire land, who know the process and then used, or abused their knowledge, to acquire land on which people exist; then they ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister very much. This is a well drafted Bill. It is a good work. However, as I have said before, we can think together and improve it. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have some points that I want the Minister to think about. The first one is that we must ask ourselves the question: Yes, there is need for a framework for formal consultations between the County Governments and the National Government. Excellent! Why do we need a Council of Ministers on one section established under proposed Clause 19 and Council of County Governors? Why do you want a Council of County Governors, and, at the same time, we want the National and County Government Co-ordinating Summit established under Clause 7. I pose that question because ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: The question we must ask ourselves is: Do we need this bureaucracy that is proposed here, so that we have a Council of County Governors and then we have the Summit? I understand the thinking behind this. I had the opportunity to serve this Government as Assistant Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. When we are making decisions, first of all, we used to have an ambassador’s meeting. The ambassadors meet and discuss. Then the same resolutions are brought to the level of Ministers which are then invited to Addis Ababa, or wherever, to again discuss the same things ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in passing resolutions in the UN or African Union, it takes a whole year or two years, just to get a resolution through. Why these stages of bureaucracies that have been set up? So, in this country, we will have limited resources. The County Governments are going to have limited resources. The National Government, we all know, we have very little money for the Development Vote. All the money is going to the Recurrent Vote. In order to cut that Vote, I will urge the Minister that we collapse these functions. If the President is ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I really want the Minister to follow what I am saying with your intervention. Many of the issues which will be in this forum which I propose that we collapse together will have some financial implications. So, I am wondering where the Cabinet Secretary for the Treasury and where the Cabinet Secretary, who will be in charge of Inter-Governmental discussions will be. I know when the President will be coming for this functions, he will be definitely accompanied by the Secretary of the Cabinet who is in charge of County issues. However, we must give ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the technical committee that has been set up is a very good and noble idea that will make this forum not be one of just talkers – not a council that just needs to talk - but a forum that has technical capacity that will make sure that proper decision making is undertaken and these are adopted after discussions. I think it is a very good thing the Minister has done; I would pray that it be properly implemented. The thing that we must look at and make sure that is does not defeat the ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to urge the Minister to remove this clause. You have a technical person who stays continually and then you have a governor who, apart from running his or her own county, will also doing a national duty; he will serve for only one year. He will not be useful and we shall not attain the purposes for which we are setting this co-ordinating committee. The Law Society of Kenya (LSK), to which I belong, used to have annual elections. Every year we had a new chairman. It reached a point when it became ... view