Maanzo Daniel Kitonga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, I second. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy, Speaker, Sir, for giving me an opportunity to contribute to this important matter. We have pending bills for the national and county governments. It is a serious matter in the county governments. As you have seen from the Motion, Nairobi City County has accumulated the largest share of Kshs107,037,053,000, followed by Kiambu at almost Kshs6 billion and Mombasa at almost Kshs4 billion.When you have so many pending bills in the nation, especially in the counties, it means you are holding business people at ransom. It means that business people are unable to work. They could be ... view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: 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
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: This happened in Machakos County one time. Quite a number of businessmen who Machakos County owed money have done fantastic work in quite a number of projects in Machakos. The County Government of Machakos was not able to pay them. view
• 2 May 2024 in Senate: Similarly, in the County Government of Makueni, there are quite a number of bills which have been pending for years and have been carried forward to the current government. I am aware that the current governor of Makueni has made an attempt to pay quite a number of pending bills. However, we still have a lot of money owed to contractors in Makueni. That is making contractors bitter and affecting even taxes of the country. Such people would have paid taxes and the country would have progressed. Therefore, this Motion is important. We need to have a way of clearing, ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill. The Division of Revenue Bill divides the monies to be budgeted and used for the national Government functions and also for devolved functions. The Senate is there to protect devolution and to make sure it works. There have been challenges. The Constitution devolves certain functions, such as agriculture and health. Especially in Health, there has been a lot of confusion. There are many projects that are done by the national government for devolved units, especially in the health sector. There have been issues with scanning ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir, for allowing me to contribute to this very important Bill. The Division of Revenue Bill divides the monies to be budgeted and used for the national Government functions and also for devolved functions. The Senate is there to protect devolution and to make sure it works. There have been challenges. The Constitution devolves certain functions, such as agriculture and health. Especially in Health, there has been a lot of confusion. There are many projects that are done by the national government for devolved units, especially in the health sector. There have been issues with scanning ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: the Cabinet Secretary in charge of agriculture. If Agriculture was devolved, then the farmers would be questioning their governor as to what has happened. Therefore, while this Division of Revenue Bill is already set and has already been passed by the National Assembly, as we look forward, we need to see units that have been devolved in the Constitution, devolved to the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a similar problem happens with disaster management. There is the National Disaster Management Unit (NDMU) in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. Counties are supposed to have funds slated and slotted ... view
• 30 Apr 2024 in Senate: the Cabinet Secretary in charge of agriculture. If Agriculture was devolved, then the farmers would be questioning their governor as to what has happened. Therefore, while this Division of Revenue Bill is already set and has already been passed by the National Assembly, as we look forward, we need to see units that have been devolved in the Constitution, devolved to the counties. Mr. Speaker, Sir, a similar problem happens with disaster management. There is the National Disaster Management Unit (NDMU) in the Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government. Counties are supposed to have funds slated and slotted ... view
• 23 Apr 2024 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Temporary Speaker, Sir, let me take this opportunity as is the culture of the national Parliament, and also as a Seventh Day Adventist, to invite the Pathfinders. Pathfinders are usually young children who are trained from an early age on virtues of life, skills on first aid, among other life skills. I welcome and ask them to learn and get to know because as school-going children and in the examinations of primary and secondary schools, there will be questions to do with Parliament. So, they should have an advantage when they go back to their schools and ... view