David Mwaniki Ngugi

All parliamentary appearances

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• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Something else that also worries me in infrastructure and particularly in road construction is something called drainage. We do not seem to understand that however good a road that you build is, if you do not provide the drainage, the water that stays on the road quickly erodes it and you will use more money to construct another road. Further on, I want to thank the President for committing himself to peaceful elections. But for us to have peaceful elections, we must lay the framework for the peaceful elections. Our people must be given enough and proper civic education to ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Most of our people do not understand that at Independence, the three things that the Government of Mzee Kenyatta committed itself to was dealing with health, education and poverty eradication. In poverty eradication, he included ignorance. We seem to have done very well in educating our people in as far as academics are concerned but in as far as what the Government entails, we seem to be lagging behind. So, I would urge that all the necessary institutions of the Government that are required to provide civic education to our people do so, so that we can have fair and ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: On development, it was good to listen to the President and hear that his Government is committed to improving agriculture so that this country can have food security. But I ask myself how this would be achieved if the areas that ought to give food security to this country are marginalized or neglected. We hear of subsidized fertilizers going to some areas of this country and yet to counties like Nyandarua and Nakuru which can produce maximum yields to feed this country, the fertilizer does not get there yet we pay taxes, we are citizens of this country and we ... view
• 16 May 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, on matters of youth affairs and women, it is good to hear the President committing himself to it, but every time we are talking about supporting the youth yet other than Kazi Kwa Vijana (KKV) which are very short term programmes, we do not see any long term projects that can sustain our youth or move them from the level they are of poverty to the next level. I would challenge the Government to come up with tangible long term projects to address the issue of youth so that we can move them away from ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I rise to support this Motion for the following reasons. When the County Governments Bill was brought to the House together with the Inter-Governmental Relations Bill, we were able to pass the two Bills. In fact, we passed three Bills on that day. The President found something lacking in one of them and he duly returned it to this House. This House committed the Bill to the Departmental Committee on Local Authorities and we did a lot of work. We summoned the Commission on the Implementation of the Constitution (CIC), various Ministries, local ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Finally, we were even able to draft amendments which could address this matter. So, for hon. Mbadi to take us backwards on matters that we have already glossed over and gone beyond, is not helping the country. The County Government Bill is fundamental to establishing how counties will operate and, for him to say that if we do not pass it, the President will be forced to assent to it, that can only be his own interpretation. That is because the Attorney-General, other lawyers and Members of Parliament could argue otherwise. So, he is only prejudging things the way he ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, the Public Finance Bill is equally important. This is the Bill that tells us how both the county and national finances will be administered. If we do not pass these Bills, then we will not have a legal framework to guide us on how to use our resources. So, it is important that this House rises to the occasion because it was only a technicality that barred us from debating or voting, when the matter was in the Committee of the Whole House. view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I want to caution the Government side that we are in this situation - especially in relation to the County Government Bill - because it was brought at the last minute. If this Bill had been brought a month before, we would have debated it, passed it, returned it to the House, make amendments and returned it to His Excellency the President in good time. That is one lesson that we must learn. But saying that we cannot pass the two Bills or any one of them, I think is retrogressive and that will not help ... view
• 3 May 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view
• 15 Mar 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I also rise to add my voice in support of this petition. In many cases, we forget people living with disabilities; when it comes to retirement most of us who have no disabilities go to do some other work. In fact, it should be the reverse. People with disabilities should be allowed to work longer because they are unlikely to retire and take up any other jobs. For that reason, I support this petition. view