David Mwaniki Ngugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: This Bill provides for a decentralized county establishment. Other than the county, the Governor can decentralize the county into smaller units. People have been wondering what will happen to the provincial administration. When we went round the country we assured the provincial administration that nobody would lose his job when we pass the Constitution. I still stand by that statement that no Kenyan should lose his or her job on account of us having passed the Constitution and now passing laws of devolution. However, the role of the provincial administration must change. The provincial administration mentality is a colonial relic. ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, there is overlap between the Executive and the Legislature in the appointment of the County Clerk in this Bill. It seems that the appointment of the Clerk in this Bill will be done by the Executive – the Governor. We need to move an amendment to that Clause so that the appointment of the Clerk is the responsibility of the County Assembly so that the County Assembly is the Legislature. They should play all the functions for legislation and manage their debates and the people who work for them. That is why I have even suggested ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: So, Parliament cannot just sit tight and leave the Executive to do the devolution work including the making of Standing Orders. Parliament should provide, even if it is a template, on which the county assemblies will make their standing orders. If Parliament plays that role, then it would have played the role in devolution and it would have helped the County Governments to be on the right foot. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, in Parliament, we have the Parliamentary Service Commission, but in the county assemblies, we do not have an equivalent. So, there is need to enrich this Bill by providing for a sort-of Parliamentary Service Commission which will be the body, whether comprised of one member as a county commissioner, or three members of the County Assembly, charged with the welfare of the County Assembly members. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: This is a good Bill, but it has some gaps. For example, on the Attorney-General, the Constitution provides that he will be the legal advisor to the national Government and to the county assemblies. However, when it comes to representation in court where counties are sued, the Bill and the Constitution are silent. There is need to provide that the Attorney-General can also represent, at the request of the county government, where it is sued other than in matters that are criminal. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Bill needs not to take us backward. This Bill needs to recognise the fact that we have come from far as the National Assembly. For example, this Bill provides that there has to be a Motion in the County Assembly before a Bill is discussed. That is something that we dispensed with in this Parliament and the Executive does not have to go through the rigor of bringing a Motion to the Assembly, the Motion is discussed and when it is passed, only then can a Bill be brought to the House. We need to ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: There other issues on the recall clause. You cannot have different standards for Members of Parliament to those ones of the County Assembly members. As we say, we are mirroring the National Assembly to the county government. We need to apply the same rules that we are applying for the recall of the Members of Parliament. view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: On the issue of a Governor, we said that a Governor is like a mini-president and he cannot be the one who runs the county, hires his own Cabinet and yet he cannot fire it for whatever reason. The Governor should be able to have unfettered power to hire his Cabinet, which is the County Executive. The only proviso, like it is in the National Assembly, is that when he hires the executive committee or the cabinet at that level, they have to be vetted and approved by the County Assembly. However, when it comes to firing them, the Governor ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, as I sit down, I would like to say that, as a Committee, we have been involved in the making of this Bill and when it was to be brought to Parliament, we held a workshop on Thursday and Friday in order to go through it and pick some flaws in it. This Bill was committed to us on Tuesday when we opened Parliament. For that reason, we did not have time to prepare a report to guide the Members of Parliament on this. This is in the process; the report will be tabled in this ... view
• 16 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I want to say once again that this is a very good Bill, even though it needs a few amendments. For hon. Members to fully understand this Bill, I repeat that they have to read it in conjunction with the Transition Devolved Governments Bill and the Intergovernmental Relations Bill; if you read the three of them, then you will get the full picture. view