Joseph Konzolo Munyao

All parliamentary appearances

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• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to oppose this Motion. view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Speaker, Sir, these are very important Bills meant to implement our Constitution--- view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: These are constitutional matters. There is nothing like the Government in constitutional matters! view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the Minister for doing a very good job on this very complicated subject of transforming our Police Force into a Police Service. He has done a good job, and we need to thank him. I do not want to repeat what other hon. Members have said. I would particularly like to appreciate the creation of the County Policing Authority, which will bring in synergy between the National Government and the county governments in providing policing services at the grassroots level, in the county governments. I ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I also support this Bill that creates the Ethics and Anti- Corruption Commission. It is important to say from the outset that this is a new Commission. It is a Commission envisioned under the new Constitution. Therefore, it is a new body. Just like we are creating a new police force, we are also creating a new Judiciary. This is also a departure from the old body. Therefore, in this legislation, we must be able to address the shortcomings of the existing body so that we have an improved infrastructure that can be able to ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I am not giving any examples. I am just saying that people who work in the Executive arm of the Government, their mandate is not to speak on a daily basis so that they can be seen to be working. The output of the work they do will speak for itself. That is why we are saying; let the commissioners be in charge so that we do not have one person making the decision. Where you have a group making a decision, then you are able to enhance accountability. You are able to make sure ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: As Mr. Orengo said, from the very beginning, this institution was created to handle grand corruption but it has continued to thrive in this country and yet we have not seen any prosecution of grand corruption. All we hear is about junior police officers and hon. Members being followed over the Constituencies Development Fund (CDF) as if they run it when there are accounting officers in the CDF offices who are employed by the Government. Grand corruption is still thriving in the country and we have not had a single file where investigations have been done and finalized. All we ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, the other key point that needs to be taken into account, and I am happy the Committee has said that it has looked into it, is to give the Commission the power to hire and fire the Secretary of the Commission. You cannot have an employee who you have hired but you cannot fire. So, the employee becomes bigger than you and yet you are the one recruiting. The Constitution is very clear that this Commission will have the power to hire and appoint the Secretary. The person who is appointing must also have the ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: Mr. Temporary Deputy Speaker, Sir, I was gesticulating as I spoke but I was obviously contributing through the Chair. I think I have touched on the key issues that I wanted to talk about but the final point which I support that the Chairman of the Committee raised is that instead of hurrying to repeal the old provisions when we do not have enough time, it would be useful to re-look at them so that we can have enough time to scrutinize them properly and make sure that the new provisions that are being created are in line with the ... view
• 23 Aug 2011 in National Assembly: With those few remarks, I support. view