David Mwaniki Ngugi

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 191 to 200 of 503.

• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, in this Bill, we have provided for a Summit and this is where the county governments meet with the national Government. I do not understand why people are creating a fuss when we have this body where the President and the governors meet to look at national values, national objectives and all the things that have been stated would be done by the Summit. We have also provided for a Council of Governors. The governors themselves need to meet; they need to exchange ideas; they need to borrow from each other; they need to compare ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: If it was the issue of cost, then we would be saying: “Remove all these Commissions that we have formed – Commission for this, Commission for that in the Constitution.” We cannot look at these very critical devolution aspects and start restricting the bodies that could enable them to perform their job properly. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Having said that, this Bill misses only one critical area. A Government comprises of three units. In this aspect the Executive, which is the Governor and the Governor’s Council and the Executive, which is the President meeting with the Governors at the Summit. However, this Bill – and we will be proposing – misses the Speaker’s Panel. We should have the Speakers Forum where the speakers of the 47 county assemblies will also meet, because those are the ones that represent the Legislature. Once we have the Governors Forum and the Speakers Forum. Once we go to the Summit, the ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there are a few things in this Bill, like limiting the number of times that the Summit should meet or limiting the number of times that the Governors Council should meet. There should not be a limit because that should be dictated by the business on the table. What we can say is that the Summit will meet, at least, twice a year. That leaves room for it to meet even three or four times if the business dictates so. Similarly, even for the Governors Council, you cannot say that it will only meet three ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is this technical committee which people do not seem sometimes to understand. The technical committee is the implementing organ of both the Summit and the Governors Council. Whatever decisions are made there will be implemented by the technical committee. The technical committee also is the Secretariat for both the Summit and the Governors Council. So, being the Secretariat and the implementing organ, we will be proposing that it does quarterly reports both to the Summit and the Governors Council so that its work is followed. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On the issue of the term of the governors, one year is nothing for somebody to be a chair of the Governors Council. We will propose that he will be eligible for a further one-year-term only so that if he is proved to be a good chairman of the Governor’s Council, he can have a chance of going for two years. If he has not been able to impress his fellow governors, then they can elect somebody else. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, that will cure the issue of somebody being there for so many years or not performing well. ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the issue of assets, water, forests and parks will need to be discussed. These are the issues that might form disputes. So, that is why the dispute resolution mechanism in this Bill is so important. When disputes arise over the sharing of resources such as assets, forests, game parks and so on, then counties could register their disputes through the dispute resolution mechanism that has been provided under this Bill. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, we support this Bill just as we supported the County Government Bill. I would be supporting the Transition to Devolved Governments Bill. However, we will be bringing several amendments in order to improve on these several Bills so that they can serve this country better. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I beg to support. view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: i: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I want to thank the Minister for that attempt to try and smoothen the figures to get a fair position. However, it is a known fact that where you have almost ten registered voters the population would be three times. That is the projection that the Ministry uses. In a place like Kinangop, we have 87,000 registered voters and yet the population to our surprise and dismay came to only 192,379. This is the case and yet Kinangop is the migration area for people from Rift Valley and Central provinces who want to buy land. We ... view