Joseph Konzolo Munyao

All parliamentary appearances

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• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, this Motion is properly before the House. The Motion is cushioning the accuracy of the survey. So, there is nothing unconstitutional about this Motion. The responsibility of this House is to interrogate Government policies and statistics. If Members have an issue on what a Government department has done, questioning its accuracy is not unconstitutional. So, the Members arguments would have been very useful in opposing the Motion and not in preventing the Motion from being debated in the House. view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are correct that I was contributing on the admissibility of the opposition to the Motion. I was arguing that there is absolutely nothing unconstitutional about this Motion. The Motion is questioning the accuracy of the survey, which is being used to allocate resources to constituencies. This is not a small issue when you realize that after the CDF Budget is increased by more than Kshs2 billion, constituencies receive less than what they received in the last year’s allocation. This is not a small matter. If you talk about discrimination, you are talking about those constituencies ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, remember the census was done by this same Ministry. The census was done and it was said to be the most comprehensive census ever undertaken by the Ministry. It was delayed because the Ministry itself realized that it was inaccurate and ordered a repeat in certain areas. So, to urge the House that it could be inaccurate, we are not far from the truth because we have seen it happening before. Not long ago, the same Ministry carried out a census. It had all the officers and all the money and yet it said this census ... view
• 3 Nov 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, the right approach should have been and I am proposing a compromise on this Motion, the Ministry maintains the levels of funding that were there last year in those areas and then give more money to those areas that have problems. If that was done, we would have no quarrel. view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to say a few words about this Bill which is intended to amend the Tea Act and improve the regulatory framework in the management of the tea industry. view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I have a lot of sympathy and, in fact, I share not just sympathy, but most of the sentiments that have been expressed by the hon. Dr. Kones in relation to this Bill. The Bill mainly deals with the Tea Board and the Tea Research Foundation and brokers who broke the sale of the tea. Clearly, you can see the intention is to give the Board more teeth in regulating the industry. But the real problem of the tea industry is not even the tea board because the tea board has been quite irrelevant and ... view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: The other key issue is the issue of cutting cost. We should reduce bureaucracy at KTDA. I am not even going the whole hog of saying let us dismantle KTDA and allow other agents. But we are saying KTDA has been growing over the years, adding staff, adding all sorts of regulation, spending all money and it is that small scale farmer who has to pay for those cost incurred at KTDA level? How can we restructure KTDA to be able to reduce the bureaucracy and unnecessary employees who do not have any particular work, to leave only the necessary ... view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was carried away by passion because I like demonstrating what I want to say. I was asking what are all these layers of managers at the top who really do not add value for? What do the zonal managers manage? At the factory level all the areas that require management have people, but there is a guy who hangs around called a zonal manager whose work you cannot explain but he earns the most. Could the Ministry become more imaginative and come up with a way of restructuring the KTDA? That way, the percentage ... view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was addressing you, but Waziri said something behind my back. Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, we need to increase the capacity of the tea factories. I want to give an example of where I come from because that is where I am sure of. One has to cover very many kilometers to reach the factory. That is one problem. The roads are very poor. Assessment has been done and there is need for an extra factory. Every day farmers ask for another factory to cater for other farmers because the one we have is ... view
• 5 Oct 2010 in National Assembly: In the small scale factories, it is the bigger fish running them while the small farmers continue to suffer. Why can we not address that through legislation? That is one of the proposals we thought this Bill would address to give some say to the farmers who used to have a say until the rules were changed recently. These are the challenges we want addressed in this Bill. We support this Bill, but it does not address the teething problems that affect the tea farmer at the factory level and in the general, at the KTDA management level. We implore ... view