David Kangongo Bowen

All parliamentary appearances

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• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: service for five years. He has enough experience to become the second Inspector-General of Police under the new Constitution. Academically, you can see from the Committee Report that he has two Masters Degrees. As this House seeks to approve the new Inspector-General of Police we need to address some serious issues within the National Police Service. First, there is need for harmonisation and a good working relationship between the National Police Service (NPS) and the National Police Service Commission (NPSC). The former Inspector- General of Police, Mr. Kimaiyo, did not fail to provide security to Kenyans, or to check the ... view
• 4 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: There might have been one or two cases of irregularity during the recruitment just as in this House, where you cannot condemn the whole House because of a sin committed by one Member. Of the 10,000 recruits, I am very sure 95 per cent got their jobs fairly. The security agencies in this country need to sit down and work together, so that these young recruits proceed to college. There was a case in Nakuru where a lady miscarried because she was told the husband could not join the police training college. That was a very serious issue. These people ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, hon. Speaker. view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Yes, he is out. view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. I stand to support this Report and congratulate the Committee led by my good friend, hon. Ababu Namwamba. I have had time to go through the Report though not completely. I am happy that the Committee has done a very good Report. I do not want to repeat what my colleagues have said, but I just want to say one thing: The biggest issue that we have in this country is corruption. The major loophole of corruption in this country is in procurement. As I speak, procurement officers and accountants in the entire Civil Service are ... view
• 3 Mar 2015 in National Assembly: I want to commend the Committee especially on some hidden payments. I want to be specific to the Office of the President where some malicious expenditure is just seen, money is withdrawn and the destination of the money is not known. The time of secrecy is over. We have a new Constitution which gives us the right to information, whether the information is classified or not. A Committee like the Public Accounts Committee must be told that the money was withdrawn from this account and taken to that account for a specific purpose. The Committee has worked very hard and ... view
• 26 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: On a point of order, hon. Speaker. Two weeks ago, hon. Wandayi sought your indulgence and also the Departmental Committee on Education, Research and Technology’s on the issue of school fees. We are happy that there is a fees guideline and a policy from the Ministry of Education. We want to hear from the Chairperson of the Committee. Those parents who had paid over a Kshs.120,000 as school fees and now we have a guideline of Kshs.53,000 or Kshs.55,000, what happens now to their balance? Is it carried forward to the next term or what is going to happen? We ... view
• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: Thank you, hon. Speaker. We are trying to find where hon. Lessonet, who is the Chairman of the Committee on Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) is in this House; we are not seeing him. We are worried that he is held up somewhere. We wanted him to move a Motion for adjournment of the House, so that we discuss the issue of CDF. view
• 24 Feb 2015 in National Assembly: This is very important to us. It should even have been the first business this afternoon. view