Amos Kimunya

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• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: I think the amendment by Dr. Oundo covers employers. We are talking about employers. Now, when we start saying a natural person who is an employer is exempted, but a legal person who is an employer is not exempted, then you start practising discrimination among employers. I think we should just do away with this amendment. There is no definition. We have defined the terms, “self-employed”, “indigent”, and “unemployed”. We have not defined what contribution by a natural person is. It is like we are now The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for information purposesonly. A certified ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: including in law matters that are not defined within the same law. It will just make it murky for implementation. As a Member of Parliament for Kipipiri, I am an employer of people in my constituency and I am natural. Remember, under the Companies Act, you can register a company as a sole proprietor. You are a natural person. How does that person work on issues in terms of covering their employees? We may be well-intentioned, but we are making it murky. I would rather we exclude this proposal. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I would want the Chair of the Departmental Committee to listen. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Within the Bill, we have already provided in Section 10 that subject to such guidelines, the Board may, from time to time, allow a person who may wish to receive enhanced benefits to make additional voluntary contributions to the scheme. So, we have already provided for additional contributions. What Members have already passed is that this is a mandatory contribution. There is no option. It is now mandatory that everyone must contribute. That is why we created those categories for indigents, on whose behalf the State will contribute, and for unemployed categories. We have already said it is mandatory for ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Chairman, I wish Members could read the Bill. If you do, you will understand that it is mandatory for everyone. So long as it is mandatory, the issue of voluntary contributions does not arise except for what is provided in Section 10 on voluntary contributions to top up your benefits. So, what the Chair is trying to do is reversing the mandatory to create a position where youths can do voluntary yet it is mandatory, anyway. It is a contradiction: It is an oxymoron of sort. We had already discussed this with the Departmental Committee Chair. I ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: For avoidance of doubt, I am the Mover of this Bill, and I have gone through it clause by clause. For avoidance of doubt, I would like to ask Members to look at Clause 10, which we passed. The new Subsection (5) under Clause 10(e) states that the contributions made to the Fund under Subsection (2) shall be mandatory. Because of that, we move to Clause 15 to remove the voluntary aspect which was provided for in the parent Act under Section 20. Making it mandatory in Clause 10 killed the voluntary aspect in Section 20 of the parent Act. ... view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: ( Off-record) view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Chairman, I beg to move that the Committee do report to the House its consideration of the National Hospital Insurance Fund (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill No.21 of 2021) up to New Clause 3B and seek leave to sit again tomorrow. view
• 28 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the House do agree with the Committee in the said Report. I also request Hon. Maoka Maore to second the Motion for agreement with the Report of the Committee of the whole House. view
• 23 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, my worry is to do with the matters in court. However, I am sure Hon. Sossion is quite aware that we did present in this House a Report on the Sessional Paper, because he has been a Member of the Departmental Committee on Education. Sessional Paper No.1 of 2019 seeks to reform the education system by advocating for training for sustainable development. The Sessional Paper was approved by this House on 1st October 2019, which was basically the approval of this House for implementation of the CBC education system. I do not know whether Hon. Sossion is now ... view