Joseph Wathigo Manje

All parliamentary appearances

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• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, for giving me this chance to support the National Youth Service Bill, 2018. From inception, this institution was started in 1964 and the main idea was to train young people on national matters. It was creating nationhood. By so doing, the youth offered voluntary services and were used in disaster management. They offered a pool the job market. Over time, it changed. Today, it is characterised as a poorly managed organisation. It has spoilt its image. The image is dented and a lot of funds are lost in the organisation. This has created erosion ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: The NYS had very good motto, namely, “True to self and country”, during the days it functioned to the core. The problem came in with the restructuring of the NYS in 2013 which was done to cater for the social aspect and try to solve the issue of unemployment that we have The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposes only. Acertified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: experienced in the country. When it was done, the NYS was allocated a lot of funds that was not properly managed and procurement of goods and services was not properly safeguarded. It moved from the decentralised procurement to the central one where corruption and misuse of public funds was witnessed. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: So, this Bill will mitigate that by introducing a council to run the organisation. I see a weakness in this because when you recruit people and have them work part time, sometimes the concentration drags. You might find that the director will still be running the organisation. When the council will be part time, they will rely on being informed what is happening in the organisation and sometimes, we lack that concentration. It becomes a bit sketchy for the council. view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I wish a few members of the council would work on fulltime basis so that they can understand the organization, which is very big. I like the proposal that the chairman should be non-executive. There has always been a problem where you put an executive chairman and CEO. Both of them will be pulling on different directions and making financial decisions that affect the organization. In future, the CEO should be in charge of resources throughout. You saw what happened when the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) was established and there was a pull between the chairman and the CEO. So, ... view
• 5 Dec 2018 in National Assembly: I support the Bill. view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker for giving me this chance to contribute to this particular Motion on the Twenty Second Report on Audited Financial Statements for State Corporations. We create State corporations with particular objectives. One of the objectives is to try to open the country for development. Once that is done, State corporations should either be made private or the objective changed. The problem we have in the country is that we do not realise why some State corporations were started. Another issue that should be considered when establishing State corporations is security of the country by ensuring that ... view
• 28 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: We should also check the way people are recruited to State corporations. You will find that when a manager is put there, he tries to put his cronies and tribesmen and women such that the corporation takes a tribal line which is not good for the country. We should also consider the implementation of this Report. I tend to think that reports are not properly implemented and that is why we keep on having the same issues. In other jurisdictions like Uganda, police officers sit in the PAC to find out whether a CEO of a particular agency should be ... view
• 6 Nov 2018 in National Assembly: Hon. Deputy Speaker, I want to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Agriculture and Livestock the following Question: a) Is the Cabinet Secretary aware that the slow inspection of fertiliser for flower farming at the port of Mombasa has resulted in huge shortage and increase of prices in the market and that this has negatively affected flower farming activities? b) What measures has the Ministry put in place to ensure that fertilizer is available to flower farmers within the time required? view
• 17 Oct 2018 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker for giving me a chance to support this Bill. view