Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: Legal Notice No. 7 of 2021 relating to the National Youth Council Election Council Members Regulations of 2021 and Explanatory Memorandum from the Ministry of ICT, Innovation and Youth Affairs. Sessional Paper No. 3 of 2021 on the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights from the Office of the Attorney-General and Department of Justice. The Performance Report for the period of July-December 2020 from the Independent Policing Oversight Authority (IPOA). The 2020/2021 Annual Report of Parliament on the Constitutional Requirement under Article 153 ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee and call upon the House to support the approval of this Sessional Paper on the cooperative movement. This is a sector that most of us in this House have probably come to know and become part of as an integral part of their lives. We are talking of farmers’ cooperative societies and credit and savings cooperative societies – the whole essence of people coming together and harnessing the power of unity of small farm holders or small savers and creating a bigger pool from aggregation of their ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: will never get into that kind of situation again because when you look at it, the cooperative sector is real and is the vehicle that will empower our people. Forget about the sloganeering that we hear. This is the viable empowerment strategy for our people. The real bottom-up empowerment strategy is the kind of policies that we are embracing to ensure that we consolidate farmers at this level. Anything else you hear is mere sloganeering. We need to get the cooperative movement revamped. We need to congratulate His Excellency President Uhuru Kenyatta for the effort he has made in reviving ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I hope this House will give this not only the attention it deserves but also the push it needs. When it comes to considering the regulations that will be developed, we should be able to look at them and ensure that we anchor them into law so that, together with the policy, they provide a legal framework that will empower farmers, small scale traders, jua kali associations and saccos. A thriving success story is Harambee Cooperative House, which is owned by office messengers, police officers and other low cadre workers within the Office of ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. In our House Business Committee today, we had planned for this matter to come on the Order Paper subject to the Report of the Committee having been tabled. It has not been tabled hence I would like to ask that we step it down to allow the Committee to table the Report and then we can process it. view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I beg to move that the Social Assistance (Repeal) Bill, be now read a Second Time, this being National Assembly Bill No. 16 of 2020. As you know, social assistance broadly refers to both actions of transferring resources by government or by non-government actors. It is transferring resources to people whose vulnerability warrants such transfers as part of affirmative action or assistance. We have seen that happen since the commencement of the Cash Transfer Programme. The pilot programme was started in 2004 and it has been since scaled up. It was started with a few households ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Social Assistance Act was promulgated in 2013. It was supposed to help sort out the mechanisms of identifying who is vulnerable, modalities of identifying how the money will be disbursed, and even increasing the money and the transfer mechanisms. This was pursuant to Article 43 (1) (e) of the Constitution, which provided for this assistance to the people. This Act went on to even create a Social Assistance Authority and, like I said, the criteria for determining who benefits and all that. The fund that was created was never operationalised because of inconsistencies with other laws particularly, the Public Finance ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: We need to now establish a fund that is consistent with the law and complies with the current government policy that all national public funds should be established under Section 24(4) of the Public Finance Management Act of 2012, which is anchored on the provisions of the Constitution. The fact is that the social assistance Act of 2013 is not harmonised with the existing national policy on social protection. Also, it has some inherent flaws which were assigned in terms of the roles or regulation policy formulation standards to an authority, yet those roles are already assigned to the sector ... view
• 21 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I rest my case. It is a straightforward matter. I urge the House that we team up and clean our legal books through the repeal of the Social Assistance Act. I beg to move and ask the Chairman of the Departmental Committee on Labour and Social Welfare, Hon. Josphat Kabinga, to second. 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. view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: The 2020/2021 Annual Report to Parliament under Article 153 of the Constitution from the Ministry of East African Community and Regional Development. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the year ended 30th June 2018, and the certificates therein: (a) Kiirua Technical Training Institute; and, (b) National Water Harvesting and Storage Authority. Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following institutions for the year ended 30th June 2019, and the certificates therein: (a) Kenya ... view