Joseph Konzolo Munyao

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, it is not about the Government but about those individuals. They do not want to let go. They want to continue deciding what project goes where and which money goes where and who gets what contract. They will not allow that power to go just like that. That is why you can see bickering and delays but this is inevitable. The Constitution says that that must be done. It is a matter of time and it must happen. Clearly, this Bill and the other Bills, on devolution that will come have been structured in the ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am just giving my opinion and I have not even made reference to any particular person. I am just saying that anybody who feels that these are not important fora---- I am trying to explain how important they are. I am just debating and I am not saying that the House should not make a decision either way. I am only giving an opinion that should guide this House in making a decision. I am saying that these are critically important fora and they are different. So, we cannot collapse them because ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the issue of taking the report to the Senate is also very important because the Senate, in the structure of our Constitution, is the guarantor or protector of county governments at the national level. Most of the laws that the Senate would be making are laws that are intended to make the county governments work better, get more resources and function better. So, the Senate needs to be informed of what is happening so that when they are doing their budgets for the counties or legislation for the counties, they are able to know what ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: Regarding the issue of voting, as I said at the beginning, are intergovernmental forums where different governments are meeting. In Intergovernmental forums all over the world, decisions are usually made through consensus because we want to build trust between those governments and also facilitate decisions to be made. You can decide that these governments are equal but they do not implement anything. So, what are you going to do? You can agree that a certain road will pass there and voting took place but the county that is affected by the road refuses to implement the decision. So, they end ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: The last issue that I wanted to comment on is that the Bill does not make it clear the relationship between the county governments and the provincial administration. We thought that the drafters would be brave enough to deal with this issue. I know the argument is that since the Governor would be the chair of the security committee at the county, the provincial administration will be answering to the county government. That may be so but the provincial administration is still answering to Nairobi. The District Commissioner (DC) or the County Commissioners (CC) are still answering to Nairobi and ... view
• 21 Feb 2012 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support the Bill. view
• 14 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir. I think this is a very timely and important Motion because we are in the transition to the new Constitution. It would be very unfair if we were to use old statistics to allocate money to the counties. These are old statistics that have even been discredited. They have also been challenged. Experts have looked into them and said they were not properly collected. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the Government at this particular juncture before it is too late, to collect the right statistics, so that we can have proper allocation of ... view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I am just curious. The Deputy Speaker is wearing some torn piece of paper on his coat. I do not know whether it is part of the new dress for this House. Can he explain what this torn piece of cloth on his suit is for? view
• 7 Dec 2011 in National Assembly: On a point of order, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. A soldier from my constituency also died in that plane. My constituency is not located in northern Kenya. It is very unfair for people to come to this august House to peddle untruths especially on very serious matters like the ones we are dealing with. view
• 9 Nov 2011 in National Assembly: Madam Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to reply. view