Amos Kimunya

All parliamentary appearances

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• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: I also mentioned that this Bill is about reduction of bottlenecks and steps that are unnecessary. It reduces the approvals that are necessary. Currently, you need 12 approvals. The Bill reduces them to only three. Like I said, it will also limit the Cabinet role in the PPP process to policy and not the contract approval which makes it faster. The Bill has some provisions in terms of institutional infrastructure. It gives the Director- General a four-year term which is strategic. It gives him a reasonable period that is neither too short nor too long, which gives him a certain ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: The Bill also provides for all these other procurement processes in detail and various arrangements under Second Schedule. It makes them very clear for all parties, especially for our potential investors. When you look at the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Act of 2015, and indeed all laws, they are designed with mischief and distrust in mind. We believe that everyone who is selling to Government is likely to steal. So, we make the law very difficult that you must pass so many hurdles to prove that you are not stealing from the public rather than facilitate you to do ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: This Bill will ease all that. The chaps who are constructing the Nairobi Expressway can risk their money for the time they do the road because it must survive the time they need for investment and give them back money to maintain it. Hence, they do not need engineers to go there to check and countercheck and tell them that they should redo. We see disputes which frustrate contractors. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: The Bill also provides for foreign exchange, inflation and interest rates adjustments. We know that all these development projects have long time frame. They are more likely to involve foreign currency in terms of investments, cost and borrowing. If you do not include all these things and a shock comes up like COVID-19 disease which affects the markets, somebody can be hit hard by this, and yet he is doing it for public good. If something happens, then we need to know how to insure both the private person and public sector. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: This is a topic which I love. The Bill provides contract timelines for the various PPP projects. If you are constructing the Nairobi Expressway as a public sector under the supervision of the State Department for Public Works, perhaps you would still be at the design point. However, you can see the work that the private sector has done. It is in their interest to complete the project fast enough, so that they can reap the benefit of this project. Once you are told that you have 20 years on this project, if you spend five years doing it, you ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Speaker, I believe that this Bill will go a long way in enabling Kenya to achieve better quality infrastructure. It will reduce reliance on Exchequer for development, create more job opportunities for Kenyans and facilitate Ministries and current county governments to provide their expertise in the Public Private Partnerships agenda. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Hon. Members, when we travel for benchmarking, you will note that most of the highways in the United States of America (USA) are private projects and that is why they are tolled. So long as you want to use the smooth highway with all the overpasses that speeds your transition from point A to B, then you pay the toll. If you do not want that, you go through the public road and you could be in the traffic jam for ages. That is the kind of flexibility we also The electronic version of the Official Hansard Report is for ... view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: want in Kenya. This is so that, at all points, we can have all these variations of people seeking to create overpasses to help people move faster and give them opportunity to recoup their investment, while making business flow faster. People do not have to be congested in traffic jams. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: Like I said, this is not limited to roads; it could also be in hospitals. There is no reason why Nairobi Hospital cannot team up with Kenyatta National Hospital to treat the public using the expertise from the private sector. There is simply no limit as to the kind of variety of PPPs that could be started. view
• 13 May 2021 in National Assembly: I know that there are several amendments that the Committee has proposed and I am sure the Chair of the Committee will be sharing some of those with us. I really want to thank the Committee because, as I said, this Bill was introduced in the House in March 2021. The Committee took it upon themselves and has done public participation on it. They have internalised what was there from 2014 to 2017 and what is there currently. If you all remember, we had already passed this through the 2017 amendments, but in terms of the new matters, there has ... view