Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: If you have a Governor who just comes in and after one year he is out and then another one is in; when the current one is studying issues and before he understands them he goes out, that will not be an efficient utilization of the resources. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I propose that when the governor’s forum is convened for the first time under the chairmanship of the President or whichever way it will be done, the election which will take place should give a mandate which should run for at least two and a half years. Then you will have a chairman of that group, who will work with the secretary of the technical committee for a reasonable period of time. The after the term is over, a meeting will be convened to choose the next chair on the side of the governors; that ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to make two short points. The third one is the decisions which must be taken in this co-ordinating body – the intergovernmental co-ordinating body - that we are creating. We have said at the end of this Bill - in the schedule--- I will specifically point it out. It is under No 6 of the Schedule We have said that the decisions of this body, or the body that shall be created here, be it a working bodies or any body, will be by consensus. Now, there will be disputes which the Minister ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I urge the Minister to seriously consider this. Yes, consensus must be there, and be the preferred mode of decision making; but we must have a voting mechanism clearly spelt out, so that people will know what to do. If the central working committee has brought a decision saying that the water must be divided or utilized in this manner, or that this county should now remit funds to this other county in this manner, then if there is no consensus, there should be some voting, so that a decision is arrived at; in this ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the fourth point which I want to make, which is also a quick one, is that there is a proposal which the Minister has given, that the rules--- I am picking this from the regulations in the proposed Clause 38. These regulations will be made subject to their approval before publication in the Kenya Gazette by the Senate. I want to request that these should be done away with. I propose that once the Cabinet Secretary has proposed them, and the forum of governors and the President have met, approved them and have chosen the ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for example, if the Senate rejects all those rules, or decides to amend them, they will not know how the systems will be working within the system; how useful will that be apart from delaying things and trying to create a role for the Senate that will really not be necessary, unless we are just out to delay the process of decision making? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally, as I sit down, if we can remove and collapse these two bodies, what will happen is that the monies that is supposed to be coming ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I made a point here, very clearly, that we are not dismissing all the fora. All we are saying is that we are collapsing those fora in order to make them effective. Is the hon. Member in order to suggest to the House and to the country that we are doing away with these fora and that we are not--- view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I will also be very brief. First, I want to support the Minister because the Bill is very well drafted. Let us think together. Before this Authority comes into place, there is a procedure for the establishment of the Authority and this is contained at the back of the Bill which is curious because all the Bills we have interrogated here, the procedure is very clear and it is at the front. However, my problem with this procedure for the appointment of the members of the Authority is the inclusion, in the First ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, finally and very quickly, if you look at the real reason some of us are afraid of, this Transitional Authority, it is that this Authority is going to have so much power. If you look at Clause 23, it will have the power to identify which functions will be transferable to the county governments. These people, after they have decided in their own wisdom which functions they are going to transfer to the Tana River County Government, for example, will then require the governor to make an application in a prescribed form. Then they have ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. Yesterday, I was at the point where I was saying that the Clerk of the County Assembly--- We have a problem as people from the marginalized areas and we do not want this punitive requirement of degrees being put there because we have already set the standard that even Senators will require only a post-secondary qualification. We would like to employ clerks who come from our county. Therefore, I will propose to the Minister an amendment, in that section, so that we can have a post-secondary qualification to allow us have better choices from ... view