David Kangongo Bowen

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• 3 May 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to support my good friend from Loima. The Petition before this House is very important because water is a basic human need, especially for the pastoral community. To change the nomadic life of the people of Turkana and pastoralists in Kenya in general, we need to provide water for them. It is very unfortunate that our people in Turkana have to cross to Uganda to get water. As a Member of the Departmental Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, we will take this Petition very seriously to make sure that ... view
• 25 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: I, the undersigned, on behalf of members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the members of the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers (KUPPET), draw the attention of the House to the following: THAT, Section 49 of the Labour Relations Act, 2007 provides for deduction of agency fees from unionisable employees covered by collective agreements; THAT, in October 2016, the Kenya National Union of Teachers (KNUT) and the Teachers Service Commission (TSC) signed a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) 2017-2021; THAT, the said CBA provided that teachers who are not affiliated to KNUT or KUPPET would pay ... view
• 18 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Chairman. I want to support the Chairman of the Committee. I also want to say that even as we renew the terms of the heads of these institutions, The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 18 Apr 2018 in National Assembly: there should be a policy so that we have the employees in line to take over from those who are exiting. We have seen cases where, when a CEO leaves office, those who were deputies and seniors in that department are left out and some other people are brought from elsewhere. The Committee should also consider that one or there should be a policy to that effect. Thank you, Hon. Chairman. view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. From the word go, I oppose this Report. The issue of KNH is beyond some of the recommendations made by the Departmental Committee on Health. I had time to look at the Report. Going back to 1963 or thereabout, the first President of this country, Mzee Jomo Kenyatta, talked about The Big Four agenda which, the current President - who happens to be his son - has also picked up. One of them was the fight against diseases which our President is currently talking about in terms of health. The issue of health has been talked ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: entire 47 counties so that they are empowered and the cases coming before KNH should purely be referral cases. When you talk about the general health situation in the country, none of the Members in this House, their relatives or senior Government officials would go to KNH for medical attention. All of us go to the Nairobi Hospital or the Aga Khan Hospital because the condition of KNH is so pathetic such that no one amongst us would seek medical attention there. There is need to improve the public health sector so that we have confidence even amongst ourselves as ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I said that majority of Members in this House and even those at the top level of Government do not want to be associated with KNH, especially when seeking medical attention. It is the same with regard to our medical cover. We should have a National Hospital Insurance Fund (NHIF) medical cover. We have Jubilee Insurance here which is a private entity. If we are serious about building our public institutions or hospitals for that matter, it should be the way to go. view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I want to oppose this Report. Let us reject it and, if possible, have a commission of inquiry in place or further investigations be conducted into the affairs of KNH so that we can fix the systems. It is not enough to say that we send the board home. We will have another parastatal here tomorrow and we will have the same problems. We will do the same thing of saying that we send the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Cabinet Secretary (CS) and the board home. There is need to fix systems. view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: I want to tell the Departmental Committee on Health in this House that they need to go back to KNH and look at some of the issues there, especially the issue of recruitment. When you go to KNH, one nurse serves 10 patients. How is that possible? Let us look at issues like increasing the remuneration of the doctors. Let us check their bargaining agreement and pay them well. Let us have good equipment at KNH. Let us make it a referral hospital as it was meant to be so that the other county hospitals can also function to support ... view
• 27 Mar 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, with those many remarks, I oppose the Motion. view