Maanzo Daniel Kitonga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 30 Jul 2024 in Senate: Madam Temporary Speaker, to add to what the Chair has indicated, Machakos Petition No. E002 of 2024 is, in fact, res judicata because we have a similar matter before the Court of Appeal. If the court in Machakos gets this information, it will make it easier for them to decide the matter pending. Therefore, there is duplicity of suits. Most probably, litigants in Machakos will be advised to join the main suit in this particular matter. I beg to second. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I would like to contribute to this very important Motion. This was about the supply of treated mosquito nets to Kenya The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and AudioServices, Senate. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: National Hospital (KNH) by KEMSA. There is also the involvement of the Ministry of Health (MoH), the Global Fund and the National Treasury. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: According to the Report, the tender that was awarded was cancelled. Malaria, Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Tuberculosis, and such diseases are deadly. KEMSA is aided by the grants from the Global Fund to make sure people are safe and do not die unnecessarily from these diseases. When the Global Fund saw a delay from a cancelled tender, which was unprocedural because of political interest, they knew the spread of Malaria was likely to be heightened. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, you are aware that in a hospital as huge as KNH or any other big hospital, there is a possibility of mosquitoes attacking patients and spreading disease if the nets are not available. Further, somebody who had gone to hospital without this disease might end up coming out of there sicker and fails to be treated at home. Therefore, the matter was very important to the public. The step the Global Fund took was to procure these nets and give them to KEMSA to supply with facilitation to do so. view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: The KEMSA, which is a government broker for purchase of drugs, failed to make profit. It also brought issues to our own Procurement and Asset Disposal Act. The Committee has come up with several recommendations, including amendments to this particular Act. Most importantly, we are looking at integrity. It has gone a long way to bring many problems in this country. When there is no integrity, the public loses trust with the government and its officers. Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, when you expect these people who have no integrity to be prosecuted, then the institutions that are supposed to investigate ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: The recommendation by Senate is to strengthen institutions through legal amendments and also by hiring people with integrity to ensure that when they implement their duty, even when the law has issues, they do it precisely. When you look at the import of cancelling a tender of this nature, it means there is the likelihood of patients being in hospital without proper nets. The funding agency decides the reason we are funding this particular prevention of a disease is to save lives. Therefore, it takes measures to intervene and decides to ignore the Government institutions; the Ministry of Health, the ... view
• 24 Jul 2024 in Senate: else, who is less qualified, be picked instead of you? Of course, politics come into play, negotiations and many other things such as regional balancing, which did not apply in this case of KEMSA. Unfortunately, Dr. Mulwa has lost this opportunity to serve Kenyans. We still wish he would continue to apply to many other departments in health where he specializes and could serve Kenyans. Procurement of the nets was one of the big issues in KEMSA. We had many problems when it came to the Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) times, the procurement of masks drugs and all those things ... view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to speak on this very important law. The Traffic Act has not been sufficient bearing in mind that it is a very old Act from the colonial days. In the Kibaki Administration, motorcycle transport became very huge. A long time ago, a few individuals owned motorcycles, but now it has become part of public transport system. Therefore, this was a big development. Although there could be some regulations under that Act, Sen. (Dr.) Khalwale, in his wisdom, decided to come up with this law, which deals with the regulation of ... view
• 23 Jul 2024 in Senate: , the best person to ask the direction to a place is a motorcyclist because they are The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only.A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Director, Hansard and Audio Services,Senate. view