David Kangongo Bowen

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• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, again on employment there is child labour. We have seen so many children being exploited like in the DRC where they undertake mining of gold. This is very serious and I think as we move forward with this Bill we need also to put in place measures to avoid child labour. This is because we know minerals are precious and everybody wants to be involved in them because of the big money which is there. I am very sure that with these kinds of discoveries you will see a lot of school dropouts because they are ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, again on employment there is child labour. We have seen so many children being exploited like in the DRC where they undertake mining of gold. This is very serious and I think as we move forward with this Bill we need also to put in place measures to avoid child labour. This is because we know minerals are precious and everybody wants to be involved in them because of the big money which is there. I am very sure that with these kinds of discoveries you will see a lot of school dropouts because they are ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another point I want to make is about revenue sharing between the communities, national Government, county governments and the investors. That one must come out very clearly. You cannot get people producing oil and yet they are the poorest; they are dying because of hunger and their children do not go to school. Billions of shillings are generated in their areas but they are not benefitting. We need to come up with a serious legislation on revenue sharing between the two levels of Government, the communities and also the investors. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, another point I want to make is about revenue sharing between the communities, national Government, county governments and the investors. That one must come out very clearly. You cannot get people producing oil and yet they are the poorest; they are dying because of hunger and their children do not go to school. Billions of shillings are generated in their areas but they are not benefitting. We need to come up with a serious legislation on revenue sharing between the two levels of Government, the communities and also the investors. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when it comes to the management, and this is where I have an issue, the Government is in the process of collapsing so many parastatals in the country by merging some of them into one because of the so called high wage bill. When we come up with several boards like the Mining Corporation Board then it makes the situation worse. We also have a Water Bill which is coming up with almost four authorities like the Water Management Authority, Underground Water Authority and Surface Water Board. These are so many boards. So, we are doing ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, when it comes to the management, and this is where I have an issue, the Government is in the process of collapsing so many parastatals in the country by merging some of them into one because of the so called high wage bill. When we come up with several boards like the Mining Corporation Board then it makes the situation worse. We also have a Water Bill which is coming up with almost four authorities like the Water Management Authority, Underground Water Authority and Surface Water Board. These are so many boards. So, we are doing ... view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: are trying to reduce the many parastatals and at the same time we are creating more in this House. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: are trying to reduce the many parastatals and at the same time we are creating more in this House. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: So, I think we need to look into this very carefully because I thought in this case a small department in the Ministry like the Department of Mines and Geology can be doing all this work which these bodies are supposed to do. If we create them, they will also need money from Treasury to run their affairs. We need to be very careful on that move so that we do not create more bodies and at the same time trying to collapse some other parastatals. view
• 16 Jul 2014 in National Assembly: So, I think we need to look into this very carefully because I thought in this case a small department in the Ministry like the Department of Mines and Geology can be doing all this work which these bodies are supposed to do. If we create them, they will also need money from Treasury to run their affairs. We need to be very careful on that move so that we do not create more bodies and at the same time trying to collapse some other parastatals. view