Maanzo Daniel Kitonga

All parliamentary appearances

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• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: Investigations (DCI), should do everything possible to make sure that all the thieves are arrested, charged by EACC and the monies are recovered. Since, they live in this country, they are known and some of them are in Government. It is important for this issue of SHA to be looked into so that we bring this matter to conclusion. We should also come up with a way forward to make sure that a common Kenyan is served by this system. It should not look like it was better when NHIF was there, but make sure that nobody is detained in ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I welcome the students to the House. When you visit Parliament, you learn a lot. For those who are reading history and civics, you are going to have about 10 to 15 marks questions in relation to Parliament in your form four examinations. So, when you are here, get to know who the Speaker, Clerk and Serjeant-at-Arms are and how Parliament runs. It is special as the third Arm of Government. I welcome you and wish that some of you become very ambitious today. One day, you will become Senators or Members of Parliament. ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir, thank you, for giving me this opportunity to contribute to this very important matter. At that particular moment, I was a member of the Committee on Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries. When this matter came, it was a very serious matter. I give my thanks to Prof. Anyang’-Nyong'o, the Governor for Kisumu, when we invited him to come and share his insights; he came, and he did not support this corruption issue. In fact, he wanted it investigated. He was very disappointed. This money had come from the Japanese government. The Japanese Government even provided tractors and ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: Sen. Cherarkey has suggested that we court martial these people or sentence them to death by shooting at Uhuru Park. However, I want to tell him that for us to be able to do so, we will need to change the Constitution of Kenya and bring back the death sentence. You and I are members of the Committee on Justice, Legal Affairs and Human Rights. Sen. Wakili Sigei is the chairperson of that committee. As a committee, we need to strengthen and relook at the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act and the law that punishes people who have stolen public ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: The traditional setting of Kambas, Kalenjins, Luo and even Embus never encouraged stealing of other people’s property. The belief was that you would be followed by evil things if you steal people’s property. Unfortunately, we have learnt from the colonialists to be thieves, corrupt and loot public funds. We must be serious and our recommendations must be taken seriously by the DCI. I hope the DCI will not behave like EACC. I hope their investigators will not be compromised. I am sure that those who stole that money and bought those cars are now broke. This is because you never ... view
• 6 Mar 2025 in Senate: There are many donor agencies that want to work with EACC, National Cohesion and Integration Commission and other commissions which work towards better management of public funds. We should work to ensure that we have a culture of protecting public funds. I would love to see us recovering what has been stolen and those people who stole those funds taken to jail. They should serve as an example to other Kenyans, especially those people from Kano Irrigation Scheme. Mr. Patrick Odida should be decorated for his effort of fighting corruption in this country. I support and thank you for giving ... view
• 5 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Speaker, Sir. I rise pursuant to Standing Order No. 53(1) to seek a Statement from the Standing Committee on Labour and Social Welfare on the employment status of staff contracted by the national Government under UHC programme during the Covid-19 pandemic. In the Statement, the Committee should- (1) Provide the total number of healthcare workers recruited under the UHC programme during the Covid-19 pandemic period who remain on contractual terms of service to date. (2) Explain the reasons the service of these health care workers has not been translated to Permanent and Pensionable (PnP) terms, despite their ... view
• 4 Mar 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Madam Temporary Speaker. This is resulting out of a petition. Hospitality is a very key earner of foreign exchange into our country. It has to be organized in such a way that at all material times, visitors from other country feel free to come to our country. There was a time we had a little bit of political turmoil and many people had booked hotels, cancelled and flew to Seychelles instead of coming to our country. Therefore, owing to the petition, then that will end up into a Bill and we will be able to put a framework ... view
• 26 Feb 2025 in Senate: Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, Sir. I want to ask a question in relation to the question asked by Sen. Mumma. I have confidence with the Cabinet Secretary on this particular issue because she is a medical doctor. What efforts have you made to educate the public on people who get seizures, because the moment somebody gets a seizure, Kenyans tend to run away from them? In relation to the counties, have you worked with the Community Health Promoters (CHPs) or a policy so that CHPs could also teach common Kenyans on how to give first aid in case of ... view
• 26 Feb 2025 in Senate: I thank you. view