Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

Entries 1051 to 1060 of 6175.

• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House today, Wednesday, 1stSeptember 2021, in the Morning Sitting: Legal Notice No.115 of 2021 relating to Income Tax Exemption on the Send-Off Package Paid to Employees of the Kenya Airways Limited from the National Treasury and Planning. This is to be referred to the Select Committee on Delegated Legislation. Monetary Policy Statement for June 2021 from the Central Bank of Kenya. 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) ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support this Report of the Committee. Maybe, I will start by commending the Committee for the work they have done in going through the names that were forwarded to this House by His Excellency the President, ensuring they are in compliance with the law, taking them through the interviews, listening to all the stakeholders who appeared before them and eventually coming up with a rather convincing Report on why this House should approve the nominees. The nominees are products of a process that began with the advertisement. From the Report of the Committee, ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: positions. Many Kenyans nowadays fear responding to adverts because they do not want to be taken through the rigmarole. For those who are daring enough, I really congratulate them. They have put all their details to scrutiny. It is only the brave who will be rewarded. As Shakespeare said, cowards die many times before their death. For those who fear to even apply, they can now come and say: “How come so-and-so was taken and I think I qualify?” You have not even applied. So, I congratulate Annceta Wafukho for being daring enough. Having gone through Parliament and then faced ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I wish to thank my predecessor for raising this issue because it disturbs some of us. When you go through the political process that was involved, in both the High Court and the Court of Appeal - because it is a blend of politics and the law - you will get to see the confusion that has been brought to the country. At the very basic level, which you might wish to consider in your ruling - and I am sure it will be canvassed at the Supreme Court - is the sheer admission by the ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: look at a number of things. Even their own judgment could well be the subject matter of a challenge. Going back to the High Court, which does not have the same challenge, they seem to have introduced a new Article 255A. We were all at the Bomas of Kenya during the making of the Constitution. The prayers by stakeholders were that, now that we are coming up with a new Constitution, how do we protect it from being dismembered progressively by Parliament and other bodies like had happened with the 1963 Constitution? I remember those discussions. The stakeholders said: Let ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, another thing that has come out is that any amendment to the Constitution that touches more than one part should have multiple questions. I am not sure how that would affect us because if you are amending five connected sections, then you need to have five Bills in this House. How do you even process them? It has made them so complicated and we might have to re-publish all the Bills that are in the process and split them into 10 to 20 Bills. I am not sure whether we have that time to go through all those ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee. I also want to commend the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs for the dedicated hours they put into this process and the time they spent in ensuring that the names that were forwarded to the House and then forwarded to them have met all the legal and constitutional requirements. All that evidence of their work is contained in this very elaborate Report, which the Chairperson has so graciously presented before this House this afternoon. I also take this opportunity to commend the Selection Panel that ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: I have had discussions with people asking why we have brought the names so late in the day and why we did not bring them early in the year or even last year. There has not been any delay, at least, not from the Government side or from His Excellency’s side. We had to wait for the legal framework on recruitment which we passed in this House early in the year and it is only the passage of that law that triggered the process of getting the panel leading to where we are today. The electronic version of the Official ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: As we were discussing earlier today about the commissioners, the issue of regional balance seems to play emotionally. We will be looking at it even now. As much as we appreciate that the commissioners who have been appointed for IEBC and everywhere else come from different parts of Kenya and represent the face of Kenya, when they join a commission or a corporation, they do not agitate for regional interests. I want to disabuse this feeling because, perhaps, the emotions we get people feeling that they do not have one of their own is because there is an expectation that ... view
• 1 Sep 2021 in National Assembly: I do not want to go into the individual nominees because the Report is very clear. The Chair has indicated why they picked them. They all qualified in their rights. I emphasise that, having read the Report, I have no doubt that the procedure that was arrived at was good and was adhered to. The constitutional and statutory requirements have been adhered to. The suitability of each of the candidates in terms of age and education has been sorted out. IEBC itself has confirmed the limitation on the people who have been in politics. By and large, I believe we ... view