Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, it will be the same argument that people extended; you must belong to a political party or declare yourself as independent. If we are to go back and start changing the law because some people have not joined a party, we will be making nonsense of the legal systems that we have created to underpin our electoral system. I think this is the fact that people could vote through a Division and not even know what they were voting for until it was announced at 1:00 O’clock news that some people would be locked out. That is when ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: People should read committee reports, interrogate a Bill, come and prosecute it here on the Floor of the House so that they are not an extension of my thinking or an extension of Hon. Duale or Hon. Mbadi’s thinking. That is the kind of thing that we need to enrich this House even if it is for our respectability. Since we are endowed with a very progressive Constitution, let us set the pace for the rest of Africa. I thank you, Hon. Speaker. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I rise to support the Report of the Committee on the County Allocation of Revenue Bill that has been forwarded to us by our colleagues in the Senate. Members will recall that on 30th April this year, His Excellency the President assented to the Division of Revenue Bill which become the Division of Revenue Act and then triggered the next level which is the preparation of the horizontal allocation of the money across the 47 counties. This Parliament provided the required resources as Kshs370 billion which was promised last year just to ensure the ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: If you also look at the allocation of resources, you will find that water is consumed by people. Health is consumed by people. Farming activities are people-based, but look at the way the Senate argued that because of historical reasons, we have ended up with situations where you have the per capita allocation in the various counties being totally disproportionate yet finance is supposed to follow functions. view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, our constitutional architecture recognises and appreciates that there are regional disparities. It also recognises that revenue raising powers are different amongst the various regions. Be that as it may, where the revenue raising powers are not sufficient, the design compensates that with more transfers to ensure that the resources can be matched with the responsibility to spend in order to provide those services to the people thus satisfying their needs. All that is captured within Article 75 of the Constitution, which basically talks to the issue of matching funds to functions. It requires the county governments ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker. I think it is important that Members get to look at what is happening in this country. When I talk about the people of Turkana not having benefited as much as they should have through development, I am talking of Kenyans living in Turkana. It pains that we have spent so much money in that county and we are still seeing children attending school under trees. We still find that when rains fail, people eat wild fruits! Really? Not with Kshs80 billion having been pumped into that county! One could give examples of different ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, I mentioned that much as these functions have been devolved, the county governments cannot act and work in isolation. Governments are interdependent because some functions have been assigned, yet the policy issues have been retained at the centre. It is the kind of thing we should be integrating and looking at, where can we get maximum economies of scale by, perhaps, even helping some of those counties. I want us to look at the County of Nairobi. The County of Nairobi was devolved, it is right in the centre, it is very developed according to the ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: every time we go to the constituencies because health services in the counties, which are devolved, would be working. We would not be losing our people to COVID-19 because counties are not prepared. I know that there are some counties that are doing very well and we must congratulate them. I will not name them here. Hon. Temporary Deputy Speaker, besides this interdependence, we have a role by the Senate in terms of safeguarding devolution. They represent the counties. We know that they are doing a good job. What we want to ask them is that protecting the interests of ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I beg to lay the following Papers on the Table of the House: A List of Nominees to the National Government Constituencies Development Fund Committees. The Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements of the Management and Supervision Fund for Trade for the years ended 30th June, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, and the certificates therein. The Report of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements of the Mwea Irrigation Development Project for the year ended 30th June, 2020 and the certificate therein. The Reports of the Auditor-General and Financial Statements in respect of the following ... view
• 15 Jun 2021 in National Assembly: Thank you, Hon. Speaker. view