Danson Mungatana

All parliamentary appearances

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• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: I would like to talk about Clause 5. We must expand the programmes in Clause 5. He is talking about just building capacity for public service. We can also have private individuals or private institutions which wish to develop capacity for the future or for people who want to take up positions in Government. I will be proposing an amendment to widen the scope so that it is not just public servants who join, but even people who want to prepare for possible public service jobs. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also want the Minister to think together with me that although he has provided for the functions of this school, still under Clause 5, he should provide for training consultancy and research services. I would prefer that there is more emphasize on research so as to inform public policy. Why am I saying so? Even in terms of funding, we must design a Government school that we can rely on. We must design a Government school that will not have all its funding going into Recurrent Expenditure, but some of it should go to ... view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I say this with a lot of respect to many Government institutions. Research has been neglected and put in the backyard. It has been relegated to a piece of inconsequential department of any institution in Government. What I know about the researchers that come from Harvard Kennedy School is that they are taken very seriously by the American Government. We want to create something here view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: that would be of equal or better standing than what is already in existence in other parts of the world. view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, this will be the first Government school that is being established within the region. Therefore, how we are going to approach it is going to be replicated within the East and Central Africa. So, we must do it extremely well. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other point I want to demonstrate to the Minister is how this legislation he has proposed seems to be completely county insensitive. The whole thing, the way I have read this Bill, keeps on talking about the national Government and the studies they want to undertake. The Minister seems ... view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: I would also want to invite the Minister to think with me about the kind of Director-General we would want to have in the Kenya School of Government. In Clause 13, there is only a provision that there shall be a Director-General appointed by the Cabinet Secretary on the recommendation of the Council following a competitive process view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: of recruitment, who shall be the Chief Executive Officer of the school. That is all they say about this man or woman we are creating here. What are the powers that he or she will have? What is the thing that will make him to effect transformational change in that institution? If I, Mr. Mungatana, were to be appointed the Director-General, what powers would I have to make institutional changes to the Kenya School of Government, and say that during my tenure I did this and that and after that, so and so took over? Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, ... view
• 26 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: What the people in Government have done is that they have taken what is in existence now as the Kenya Institute of Administration (KIA) and training institutes in Mombasa, Matuga and elsewhere and replayed them without thinking outside the box. It is our duty, as legislators, not to let this Bill pass the way it is. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the people in Government do not want to think outside the box. They want to let this Bill pass, so that they can say they have a law but they are not giving us anything new. They are not ... view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to ask the Minister for Justice, National Cohesion and Constitutional Affairs the following Question by Private Notice. Can the Minister confirm that the 80 new constituencies created by the Constitution will be available for contest during the 2012 General Elections and, if so, what preparations has the Government made in that regard? view
• 25 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I fail to understand the answer given to this Question. First of all, the Assistant Minister, himself, has been quoted in various public fora asserting that the 80 new constituencies shall not be available for the next General Election. I want the House to listen to what the Constitution is saying as of now. Article 89(2) says – with your permission, I could read so that we can go together. view