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    "id": 1035223,
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    "type": "speech",
    "speaker_name": "Kipipiri, JP",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Amos Kimunya",
    "speaker": {
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        "legal_name": "Amos Muhinga Kimunya",
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    "content": "and table its report from the current 14 to 28 days. You will agree that every time we have vetting of officers, committees usually come back here to say they want an extension of time. It is unrealistic to expect that we are to get all these things within 14 days. You end up with the wrong quality. By doubling the time to 28 days, we will have a better situation. The amendment to the Universities Act of 2012 seeks to provide for establishment, by charter, or degree awarding institutions specialising in national security issues and to apply some of the provisions of the Act relating to administration and management of universities to those institutions. Members may be aware that we have a highly respected and established National Defence College, which has been offering degrees in collaboration with other universities. It is time to actually get them an independent charter. However, because they operate in a different sector from the civilian kind of operations, it may be necessary to exempt them from some of the provisions of what would be required of the University of Nairobi (UoN) or Catholic University because they are doing some things that are of high security in nature. That could apply also in terms of any other university that is doing atomic energy or something restricted that they may not necessarily be put to the same governance structure as that of a generic university. Again, this is a very straightforward thing, to facilitate the creation of the National Defence College as a degree awarding institution. In addition, to recognise that they are in a unique sector that may require different sets of rules while ensuring that their degrees’ credibility will never be doubted. You are not awarding degrees for Kenya; you will be awarding degrees for the world. The amendment on the Kenya Law Reform Commission Act is to provide the powers of the Attorney-General with respect to communication at the Commission and to streamline membership of the ex officio members of the Commission. The amendment on the Scrap Metal Act of 2015, is to provide for powers of police officers during investigations under the Act. The amendment on the Investment and Financial Analysts Act of 2015, is to streamline the day-to-day operations of the institute within the Act. It includes some provisions providing, among other things, that a person shall not become a chief investment officer, or head an investment department or function, in a firm investing public funds, or a firm in the practice of investment and financial analysis. A person shall not perform verification, certification and advice of investment of funds in public entity, or a firm in the practice of investment and financial analysis, unless the person is registered as a certified investment and financial analyst and holds a practicing certificate and annual licence issued by the Registration committee. This is so that we do not have anyone purporting to be an investment adviser, you give them money, you lose it and there is nowhere you can have any recourse because the people you are giving your money or taking advice from in terms of where you need to invest and which shares are increasing, are not under regulation by anyone. Again, it is part of the bigger issue of protecting the public from unscrupulous people who may want to masquerade as professional advisers, yet they are not subject to any regulation. On the Court of Appeal (Organisation and Administration) Act of 2015, the Bill proposes to amend the Act to provide for the vacation dates of the courts and to harmonise them with those applying in other courts. It is a harmonisation issue. On the Witness Protection Act of 2016, the Bill proposes to amend the Act to, among other things, give reference to the correct citation of the Public Audit Act and provide that the legislation and regulatory provisions on classified procurement and disposal of assets shall apply mutatismutandis to the agency. The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor."
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