Danson Mungatana

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• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: The effect of this is that all the work that we did, despite the fact that even the HANSARD carried everything clearly--- Somebody either within the administration of Parliament or the Government Printer inserted words that were completely not there. They were not in the HANSARD. The effect is to make it impossible for any political party to include in the party list their contenders for presidential and deputy presidential seats. But they can include all the other members who are contesting seats in the Senate or the House. This defeats everything that this House had passed. It is very ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to take this opportunity to really thank the Minister for bringing this Bill before the House at this time. It is a good thing that finally this Bill has found its way to this place. There are a lot of very distinguished public servants who have sincerely suffered because of their pension arrangements, particularly for those of us who come from areas which are distant from Nairobi. It has been a problem for them. We thank the Minister for trying to put this law in place. However, there are a ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other thing that I would wish to bring to the attention of the Minister is the fact that this Bill is coded in wording that is embarrassing for us even to receive it in Parliament. Why are we talking about “the Minister”? These are the things that the Minister should not do because we are now in a new dispensation and we must shift our mental attitude from where we are to the new place. There is numerous mention of the word “Minister”. They have even said that the Chairman of the Board of ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: The other thing that I wanted clearly to be stated here is what has been referred to by the Deputy Leader of Government Business about mortgages and other connected purposes. I wanted the Minister to consider inserting a clause at the Committee Stage that will be talking clearly as to what a member of this superannuation scheme can do with the security that he will be having and his contributions within the Government. I am saying this because even private life insurance schemes make it clear within the contracts that you can use this after so many years or whatever ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: On Clause 10, I wanted to bring to the attention of the Minister the fact that the new Constitution has several commissions. I do not know why he has picked, in terms of the membership of the Board of Trustees, on just a few of them like the Teachers Service Commission, the Public Service Commission and the Inspector-General of the National Police. It seems the police were involved in this or maybe they are from the Ministry. They are everywhere in this Bill, but the Minister has left out others. I do not know what the justification is. We want ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Clause 6(3), it is proposed that the Government’s contribution is a direct charge on the Consolidated Fund. There are so many direct charges on the Consolidated Fund and sometimes I wonder whether you may be having money there because every time, we have pushed that and that there. I am not sure how this is going to be handled, but I thought that this could be part of the budgetary allocation for the Public Service Commission. It is safer that way because sometimes we may not have anything from the way I am seeing ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, first of all, I want to say that I am very happy with this Bill. Prof. Saitoti and Mr. Ojode have been very consistent and serious about these police reforms. They have been able to bring their Bills before this House. Everything that is good can be improved. I wanted to start with this moot point about the county governments and the role that they need to play in the new administration of the Constitution. Clause 3 of this Bill talks about the headquarters of the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA) to be in the ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we are saying that this is an oversight authority of the police. We know that some police officers serving in the rural areas have really mistreated people. We know for a fact that one of the punishments meted out to police officers if they mistreat people is to be transferred to far off places like Mandera and Wajir. However, when the bad officers go there, they do their things away from the people who could supervise them when they are nearer. So, we know that this is where the problem is in those far off ... view
• 11 Oct 2011 in National Assembly: Let us give this Authority proper power. If they can summon witnesses, take evidence and go through a mini-judicial process, then let them be given appropriate powers. If the Authority has to police the police officers, the place that it will bite them most is in compensation. There is the option of prosecution but compensation is also a good option. For instance, if an amount of Kshs50,000 for beating up somebody unfairly has been awarded, after evidence has been taken, this authority must have powers to deduct up to one-third salary of the officer, if he is found guilty. If ... view
• 7 Sep 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Chairperson, I beg to move:- THAT, Clause 5 be amended in subclause (6) by deleting the word “two” and substituting therefor the word “one”. view